Wild… how life seem to be playing tricks on me as I am writing my first ever blog as a Wildfyre blogger after losing our house to… fire.

It has been exactly a month since the incident but it literally feels just like yesterday. The fire was by far the biggest challenge to my family —as we thought— until two weeks later, our brother died of cardiac arrest. I came to a point when I couldn’t even call our situation “unfortunate.” There were a lot of “why’s” in my head. And as I dwell on my emotions, I found myself writing just about anything. Jotting down words on my phone’s Notepad app, I questioned life, cried my heart out, wrote inspiring things for myself to read, made a long wishlist, and some poems just to get through the day. During those times at a tent at some basketball court, my hobby became my friend.

With all the things going on, we managed to leave the evacuation area which was the basketball court after about three weeks of staying there. It was a long search of an affordable apartment for us to rent but it was a step we needed to take so we can plan on what to do with our burned house. Our. Burned. House. I typed those three words still feeling a sting on my chest like it did during the past month. But also like the past month, writing helped me survive. And that is what will happen from here on.

So much for an introductory post which I didn’t plan to put this way but the thing with life is that unexpected things occur in between our well-planned steps. I was given this website a few weeks before the fire. I was ecstatic to finally be one of Wildfyre bloggers, I had plans and concepts until the unfortunate happened. The fire took away the material things, inluding all my blogging stuff especially my camera, but it wasn’t able to take away my desire to write. Maybe it dimmed the light for the fire was too strong but it was there, waiting for me like a friend. And a friend it indeed is to me.

I am Abe, an ordinary blogger and it is with great honor that I accept the opportunity given by Wildfyre. As a way to moving forward as well, I hope to see you still here, until I can make you ZayCheese, again!