“SHE”

“Ang Hindi MArunong Lumingon Sa Pinanggalingan Ay Hind Makarating Sa

Paruroonan”(Jose P. Rizal)

One of the most familiar quotation of our National Hero, truly we cannot understand one
person why and what she is if we don’t know the story behind Her. That is why we
cannot judge or blame other people of what they are but take a look on the past on how
we can be an instrument for them to achieve what they are trying to pursue.

A happy family living in a simple way, her father is a carpenter and her mother is
a house wife. They are 3 siblings in all girls her father is in the late age when they got
marriage by her mother.

Because of old age and deteriorated body, after 6 years of living together with his
wife her father left them in this world while they are still in the young age, there father
died because of complicated disease, at that event make her felt uncertainty if they can
survive this world without the aid of a father. But the story is not end up as easy as that,
because one week after the burial of her father the weather is cloudy, everything in still
and here comes a guy rushing with his motor cycle suddenly report an accident happen
in the Highway that involve a girl in their village without knowing that it is their mother.

Her face cannot be imagined or explain, the feelings that first time she felt,
because they don’t even recover for the lost of her father and then again, a lot of
questions build in her mind because of this tragedy, the big WHY? is always circulating
in her mind,

This makes her siblings disseminated in some relatives, sometimes in her grand mother
and father because of this other environment and people take care of her, she felt and
longing for the care of a true and complete happy family.
 The time that she is in the school age, sometimes when she saw her classmates
together with their mother taking care of them, she felt jealous thinking and hoping that
she too cam experience to live with a complete and a happy family, although yes all the
time her auntie and grandmother and grand father always there it cannot exchange the
love and care that the true mother can give.

Working hard to achieve goals and dreams in life, high school stage in her life is not as
easy like what we have experience, she learn how to adjust and adopt what situation
they have, scarcity of school supplies and allowance decide her to work in a restaurant
as a part time to supply her needs, for only 150 in a day just to survive a day in life.

Since high school she learned how to live and earn income just to meet the needs
because its hard to live without mother and father but with the help of people around her
make the dream come true in her life,

Senior high school in another stage in her life where a lot of challenging happen
because of poverty and scarcity, a question in mind if she can continue pursue her
education, thinking clearly what where and how can she survive, she enter grade 11
but still not as easy she even cannot comply some of the requirements the teacher
could ask for, and then she decide to stop and find a job to earn for living, then one of
her teacher offer her to work as a working student, taking care of their son, and that is
the reason why she transferred at Koronadal City. She entered for grade 12 and their
school is only adjacent in there home, and life is still not easy as what she expected,
because she is only a working student whatever the demand of her superior can be
follow, sometimes she cant enter a school because she’s asking to take care of tier son
even in a school days, but she endure it until she finish and graduate the grade 12.

Another challenge is the college, we all know college is not a joke when in comes
to financial aspect but because of perseverance and the guidance of our Almighty God
she always holding upon the promise of God that she will never abandon in all times.
She entered a school of only 3 days class in a week, how blessed she is because she
can have a job that can sustain her needs in education she was employed at Ace
Center Point from the beginning of first year in College until now.
 Believing that education is one aspect in life that can help change your situation
and build your future through education, it can direct you in a life that you want. That is
why she hardly pursue even how difficult it is.

She experiences a lot of trials and confidence in self because she only surviving this life
only in her self without the financial support comes from. Surrender is one thing that
always comes in her mind. But with the encouragement of other people and support she
is now in a 3rd year college life must go on continue to be strong until we find our self
setting on what we dream on.

In the, the hardship on how we build our self will place us in top of what we aim
to be.

Submitted to: MERLINITA F. SEGOVIA, RGC

Submitted by: JERRIBELL

C.CALAWIGAN