Dear Mama, I Blame You For the Broken Family That We Have

And I hate that I’m wrong about everything

Edneil Jocusol
9 min readMay 18, 2020

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In a 2016 Netflix documentary film, I Am Not Your Guru, Tony Robbins delivered a piece of brutal advice to an audience. Excuse the profanity, but this message couldn’t be any more realistic.

“If you’re gonna blame people for all the sh*t, you better blame them for all the good too. If you’re gonna give them credit for everything that’s f*cked up, then you have to give them credit for everything that’s great. Blame elegantly, blame intelligently, blame effectively. Blame at the level of your soul, not at the level of your f*cking head. Because life is not so simple, and black and white.”

— Tony Robbins

We are only human. And broken is beautiful.

So here’s my story

Back in the 90s, my mom used to work in Japan as an entertainer. She is the best singer that I’ve ever known. Better than Beyoncé and Celine, combined. She’s so good at it that I would place my mouth in front of an electric fan while singing, just to get the right amount of vibrato she effortlessly does.

The sad truth is, I could only hear her sing through those recorded tapes. Her golden voice is hidden inside the cassette…

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Edneil Jocusol

I write my observations on society, business/entrepreneurship, and technology/engineering.