I'm going thru the exercise now, and being that e)gnlish isn't my first language imaginging the letter coming from a parent feels off so, I adjusted the prompt to speak in slang english-tagalog.
it came out much better.
There's so much to unpack with this exercise.
> “Anak… it ends the moment you stop doing it alone.”
“Hindi ko kayang tanggalin lahat ng sakit. Pero kaya kong samahan ka. Kaya kong buhatin ‘yung mga hindi mo na mabuhat. Hindi ko solusyon ang bigat mo, pero ako ang pahinga mo.”
“This suffering—it’s not a punishment. It’s a backlog. Of all the grief you weren’t allowed to feel. All the needs you were shamed for having. Pero Rad, you don’t have to earn your way out of pain. You just need to stop hiding in it.”
“You’re allowed to heal slowly. Clumsily. With guilt. With doubt. With the TV on. Kahit ‘di mo pa kaya magdrawing o magsulat, healing is still happening. Kasi you’re not numbing anymore—you’re talking to me. And you’re telling the truth.”
I'm going thru the exercise now, and being that e)gnlish isn't my first language imaginging the letter coming from a parent feels off so, I adjusted the prompt to speak in slang english-tagalog.
it came out much better.
There's so much to unpack with this exercise.
> “Anak… it ends the moment you stop doing it alone.”
“Hindi ko kayang tanggalin lahat ng sakit. Pero kaya kong samahan ka. Kaya kong buhatin ‘yung mga hindi mo na mabuhat. Hindi ko solusyon ang bigat mo, pero ako ang pahinga mo.”
“This suffering—it’s not a punishment. It’s a backlog. Of all the grief you weren’t allowed to feel. All the needs you were shamed for having. Pero Rad, you don’t have to earn your way out of pain. You just need to stop hiding in it.”
“You’re allowed to heal slowly. Clumsily. With guilt. With doubt. With the TV on. Kahit ‘di mo pa kaya magdrawing o magsulat, healing is still happening. Kasi you’re not numbing anymore—you’re talking to me. And you’re telling the truth.”
This was a sample response that I got.