Adrian Avelin R.

Arcilla

My kind of Escape

Growing up was never easy. Rules and responsibilities are always on my way. I should
always be ready whenever my mother call me, since grade school my eyes and ears are the windows of
my fear, fear of being the houseboy of our house who always follow the given orders of my mother,
because if not be ready to be beaten up. No doubt I am suffering from the curse of being the youngest in
family.

Years past and now I’ve grown enough, at last I am ready to resign from my job the houseboy of our
house. I am now in college life thinking that I will be no longer the little boy that used to be before, but it
was all just a thought of mine, even at this stage nothing change, I never wanted to lie but when I start
attending classes of I found out that I can manage my own time and I also do had a choice whether to
use it for good or not. I started to lie about my schedule just to escape from chores in our house and to
all the given orders of my mother. I do still have vacant time to stay in our house bit I never did because
I really want to stay away from our house. I used the school to serve as an excuse to avoid house chores
of mine and made my family believe that I was so busy after all.

Maybe what I did was really wrong, but I did it just to escape for a while. It doesn’t mean that I don’t
love my family, but I did it because I want to embrace the time that I could have without any orders
from them, and the great place to enjoy those moments will definitely be in school.
Adrian Avelin R. Arcilla

The Past memories

‘’This is it’’ words that came from my mouth because of too much happiness. I
graduated from the school that serves as my second home and I know that this is the new chapter of my
life.

After 4 years of staying in school, I am now employed and working my family are so proud of me after all
of the cheatings/wrong things that I’ve done without letting them know. I though life would be so
wonderful and easy when you have a job that’s why I am really aiming to have a job before, but I was
wrong, it was never an easy task of life and its really challenging. One day after a long day of work, I
went home and rush to my bed thinking about the old days. Silence is everywhere in my room and how I
wish I can bring back the past even just for one day. I didn’t notice that I was smiling, because of
memories keep on coming in my mind. I remember the days where I used to lie just to escape from
house chores and from the orders of my mother. The moments full of happiness with my friends, those
moments were I used to do foolishness that brought so much unforgettable moments of laughter and
tears to me. I really wish I can bring back those times.

I am still smiling after a short time of reminiscing my past, I just want to recall it in my mind not because
I regret everything but I just miss it so much. In life there’s only two choice, to live positivity or negativity
and in my case I am sure I live my life the way I want it to be. Maybe I committed wrong decisions from
my past but what’s important is I learned from it. It was a worth and fulfilling experience after all. I may
now be experiencing hard time because of my job but atleast it will lead me to my success, rather than
suffering from a job who can’t even sustain a family. I will never be on this situation without the help of
those precious memories of mine, and I can surely life so far.
Adrian Avelin R. Arcilla

Helping Hands

In this world, judgement is always present, judgement from people who always sees
the flaws of other people and making themselves believe that they are the good ones.

In 2009, I met a girl who seems to be hated by our neighborhood. She always wear shorts and sexy
outfits. Everyone is telling me that I should avoid her because she will never be a good influence for me.
One day while I was about to go to a sari-sari store I bump into her because of my carelessness. I
thought she will get mad at me but I was wrong, she insisted to say sorry and tell that it will never
happen again. As I was looking in her eyes I know that she is not that kind of bad girl that everybody
keeps on insisting. I went to her house without asking her permission and I didn’t expect things that I
witness her mother was sick and bed ridden and she have 6 siblings and she is the breadwinner of the
family, and that was the start of our friendship. I ask her why our neighborhood keeps on saying bad
things against her, and the only thing she answered is ‘’because of the way I dress myself’’ then she told
me about her job, every night she went out to sell balut and the reason why I wear sexy outfits is just a
way to invite many costumers because of my appearance but I don’t sell my body. That day I forgot all
the judgement I heard about her and all I feel is to love her because of her perseverance for her family.
She is in charge to take care of her mother while her 6 siblings are in school, and working at night for the
entire family. I told my dad about her situation and luckily my mother decided to hire her as a store
attendant in our sari-sari store and offered her to send in school without deducting her salary.

For me it’s not just about the help that my mother had given her, maybe it can really help her but what’s
most important for me is the respect and not the judgement that is the most important help that I had
given to her. Because it is not so easy to live a life with full of judgement especially if a person has many
troubles in life, we should lift up someone’s life and never turn them down because of misjudgement.