NAME: CHARMAINE JOY RAFAEL

GRADE & SECTION: ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX

LEARNING TASK: One CROWN, Three NAILS

LEARNING INSTRUCTIONS:
 Recall three hardest problems that you overcame;
 Your three problems symbolize the nails used to crucify Christ.
 Relate how you were able to free yourselves from THREE NAILS and how you were able
to get the CROWN to move on in life?
 In your personal reflections, what were your crowning realizations in life?

Life without companion is a life living in a place full of darkness, no communication, lonely, alone and
full of sadness. Many people came into my life, some of them came to hurt me and give me a
lesson and some came to help and make me happy.

I still remember those person who made me feel that I’m important in their lives , they made me
feel the care and love that I wanted to feel , but in the end they just leave me behind , and the most
painful is they are also the reason of my downfalls, I gave all of my trust to them but they betrayed
me , they are the reason why I feel happy and contented back then , but now they are the reason
why I’m having trust issues- to the point that I cannot also trust myself anymore. They are the one
who raise me up but then they are also the one who push me down. Why did they do that me?
maybe I’m not enough , maybe I’m not worth fighting for , maybe they do that to me because I
deserve to suffer, but I don’t do anything they just hurt me or maybe I did something but I didn’t
noticed it, I don’t know. Because of that , it became the reason why I'm afraid to trust and to be
friends with others , I'm afraid to communicate and to speak out my emotions because I feel like I'm
being back stab by everyone. I cannot stop thinking that all of the people hate me for who I am for
no reason. Time heals the pain. I learned to accept and moved on. Despite of everything that
happened I’m still thankful to God that he sent me a caring and loving family, despite of all my
imperfections he still sent me those person whom I consider as my best friends that always in my
side, that can accept me for who I am and for what I have.

Most of the time I feel like an inmate, like a robot being controlled by someone. My parents
are strict, and to be honest it frustrates me because it came to the point that they don't
allow me to bond with my friends even if I beg them to let me because it's my way to divert
my attention, to forget about school works even in a small amount of time. I want to spend
time with my friends because whenever I'm with them I can feel the happiness and
peacefulness of my heart and mind. It feels like I'm not their child, they don't trust me
enough to the point that they didn't notice that they are already taking away the things that
make me happy just to meet their expectations. I hate the way they protect me but as their
child, I need to respect them because maybe they just want to ensure my safety, as a result,
Instead of being stubborn I just did turn it into positive and make ways on how to handle it.

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 As a student, in today's situation it is really hard for me to always stay positive. This
new normal is stunting my mind, drying up my heart, and quenching my soul. At first,
I don't really know how to balance the things I do. I still remember the time when I
keep crying because I don’t know how to do my assessments, I don’t know what
should I do first. I'm very disappointed with myself. I always cry at night, asking
myself what is wrong with me? Why I can’t do my assessments well just like other
students? Are my efforts are not enough?. I’m so tired that I just want to give up
everything. Time flies way too fast, I just found myself fighting and doing everything
to satisfy myself in my academic performance.

In your personal reflections, what were your crowning realizations in life?

In life, First, I realized that maybe they are those people who will come
just to teach us a lesson, to give us experienced to move forward. We are
all imperfect, we can make mistakes and that’s the reason why we
encounter conflicts with others. But if we keep focusing on it, this thing
will give us nothing. If you experienced being left or betrayed just go to
the positive side, just think that God takes them away from you because
there is something that in them, that can break you fully to the point that
you can’t fix yourself anymore, just be thankful to those people who
chose to stay in your side whatever the situation is. Second, as a
daughter, I realized that we should not be angry when our parents are
being strict because they are just doing it to protect us from danger
especially now that temptations are just around. Third, I realized that
struggles are just rocks that serves as hindrance in the path that we
taking, Grades will not dictate what we are in the future. That's why
instead of giving up take those struggles as a motivation to double our
efforts and take those problems as an inspiration for us to strive more.
It's not yet late for us to do our best. We should not be stuck with things
that give us disappointments rather we should know how to compose
ourselves to make things into something better.

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