Footnote To Youth

By: Jose Garcia Villa

(Reflection)

Marrying early is not a great idea for a youth to do so, because most of them are
not financially stable yet and still not mature enough to do such thing. When a
couple decided to live with each other and they are still young, they might
influence their children to marry early also and it will turn into a cycle, where it
will repeat the process. This is the situation that happened to Dodong in the story
where he was aggressive on marrying his childhood sweetheart, Teang. As years
goes by, Dodong have reap what he saw where he also experienced the poverty and
the hardship of life where he haven’t think about before deciding to marry. A big
regret have happened to Dodong for after 18 years, his son Blas decided also to
marry early just like what happened to him way back when he was 17. He have
nothing to do but just to let his child marry Tona his son’s girl.

Upon reading the story, I didn’t feel surprised about the plot of it because it is not
new to me for many of people I have known did this also. Some of them were not
living in one house and just left the other to raise the child without the help of the
other. It is so sad seeing a child suffer because his family is not complete. I
realized that I always have follow both my heart and mind and put them on
balance. I will not decide aggressively and just finish my study first and earn a
living. And if I am already prepared on building a family, I will always make sure
that my family can have all their needs and we do not have to borrow and lend
some money to others, and I will always think about my family’s future, my
children’s education and our everyday needs.