BROKEN FAMILY

There was a quote by Gary Zukav that I i vivdly remember reading,

"Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything,
and love is all there is" and this quote fits perfectly with my story I'm
about to tell.

We once had a happy family. both of our parents worked hard to

provide food on our table, while me and my brother would study hard
so we could also provide for our parents. I remember one of our family
time being in Tacloban. It was one of the joyous moments I've had with
our family.

I remember waking up to the sound of my half-sibling crying as I fed

him with a bottle of milk. Why did I suddenly have a half-sibling, you
ask? Our family was happy but little did I know cracks in their
relationship were slowly swifting them away from each other. they
were arguing constantly, rumors about our family were circulating and
yet i still smiled despite the pain. When they decided to break up, i felt
a hole in my chest. A pain that i could never forget. My mother then
went abroad so she could provide for us while my father then had an
another family while he went to Manila.

At first, I didn't fully accepted that my father had bore another children
from his family, but slowly I learned to accept my half-siblings and
loved them as my own siblings. It took me awhile but I slowly learned
that moving on starts from acceptance, and acceptance starts from
love. As their first-born daughter, I've decided that I should accept the
way things are and how the way things are and that is how I've
accepted my siblings and decided to become their "Ate Lance".

"How can anyone begin to love if you don't love yourself?"