Sacrifices

When I got home at around 7:30 p.m., I overheard my mom talking to my aunt (her sister) on the phone. I was then talking to my dad who happened to ask why I seem to be early today and I explained that we had to do some consultation with our adviser since we had to move our final defense a week earlier. I went upstairs and confirmed that it was my Aunt Lina on the line (my mother has a unique hand signal signifying that she's talking to Aunt Lina, TALK ABOUT BEING A GIRL!).

When we were about to have our dinner, my mom shared that one of her siblings (mom has 9 siblings) Aunt Edith is coming over to fetch my cousin. Aunt Edith told Aunt Lina that she won't enroll my cousin anymore because she's just wasting their money. Enrolled for 25 unit subjects but would seldom attend class. Just then Aunt Edith added that my mom is lucky because we are to graduate and give our parents a comfortable life. That's when I decided to write this blog.

Some people think that my brother and I are lucky especially comparing us with our cousins. My relatives would often say that we are lucky because we have some aunts (father side) who are working abroad and everytime we need financial help, we could easily approach them. OR they would mention that everything that I or my brother want, we always get it.

Now for my contention**

It isn't the fact that we have someone to run to just in case our finances don't meet our needs, it makes us lucky. I think the word lucky should be used for our parents. Yes, we are lucky because we have parents like mama and papa. They've always inculcated the virtues of discipline and respect which could be a possible factor why we are in our current state. Some people just don't know how much sacrifices we had to make so as to finish our studies. Yes, we are not rich and we were never rich unlike our other Dihiansan cousins. We live plainly on what is available for the day. Others may mistaken us rich because of our cousins, COUSINS thank you for sharing your prestige. There are even instances when my dad left and my mom has to be the mama and papa. She has to work and at the same time bring our food to St. Joseph so that we could eat lunch and our things for the afternoon class will be brought by a neighbor who happens to be a helper of mamaold. There were really times when my brother and I would wait for Kuya Ryan (the helper) at the waiting shed for our bags considering that 5 minutes, the bell would rang. There were also those times when we had to mingle with our classmates and considering that some of them are really rich kids, we would think twice if we would interact with them. Good thing, we found best friends in St. Joseph, that regardless of who or what you are, they'll stay behind you. I could even recall an instance when I had my first ever cellphone in high school which was a nokia 3210 then and one of my rich classmates asked, "nagpabili ka ng bagong cellphone tapos yan pang model na yan", the only lacking antic was "how cheap".

I don't want other people to pity me, it's the last thing that I would want them to do. I just want to let them understand that wherever we are right now, we had to work hard for it and honestly, part of me want to believe that my brother and I deserve the comfort that we have right now.Ii mean, good things in life, yes, they're free but some of them? you have to work hard and sacrifice to get them. Yes, we are lucky because aside from the virtues that our parents have taught us, they sarcrificed a lot for us. 

THANK YOU MAMA AND PAPA.