May 2008
Mothers' day
Dear Journal,
It has been 24 years ago when you had given life to me. At an early age of seventeen, you have been faced with a challenge that only great people can give justice to --- Motherhood.
Instead of running the other way, you have stood your ground and sacrificed many things in order to rise up to the situation. On this special day, it's time for me to put into words what you have done for me even though, as I think of it, no words can really suffice everything that you did. But at least I will try, for it is time to give credit to where credit is due...
I must admit that our life has not been that easy. We have been through trials and tribulations that, up until this day, I can still remember clearly. I tend not to forget those moments, because with those moments, I realize that there was someone who never gave up and, above all, continued to fight; someone who says, "kaya ta ni" (we can do this) and, "may paagi pa" (there's still a way) even if she was already in tears; someone who has this unwavering faith in God and the idea that He will not give us a cross that we cannot afford to carry; and someone who can stand in front of judging people with much humility and pride; someone I call--- my mother.
My mother is not an extraordinary mother. She commits mistakes just like any other person out there. If you put her in a crowd, you will not even recognize her. You see her, and you may not see anything special. Yes, I am not ashamed to say that my mother is ordinary. But the thing is, out of her ordinary works and words, she has made an extraordinary life for my sister and I, a life that is full of love and understanding, of tenderness and of hope...
She is the most special girl in my life next to no one. For the past three years that I have been away, there was not a single moment that I felt that she was not there. Her presence in me is so strong that I do not need her to be with me physically, for just the thought of her brings me her hugs and kisses from across the seas. And now that I am with her again, I take every opportunity to show her how much she means to me...
She is the one who really completes me. She is the reason why I am here, and I shall be grateful for that forever. Some people say that they are ready to die for others so that they may call themselves noble. I say, I am willing to live all my life just to make my mother's life noble. Because for me, mothers deserve much nobility like that of a hero. Because my mother? Yes, she is my hero...
Remember, lightning could strike even on Mothers' day...
Mothers' day
Dear Journal,
It has been 24 years ago when you had given life to me. At an early age of seventeen, you have been faced with a challenge that only great people can give justice to --- Motherhood.
Instead of running the other way, you have stood your ground and sacrificed many things in order to rise up to the situation. On this special day, it's time for me to put into words what you have done for me even though, as I think of it, no words can really suffice everything that you did. But at least I will try, for it is time to give credit to where credit is due...
I must admit that our life has not been that easy. We have been through trials and tribulations that, up until this day, I can still remember clearly. I tend not to forget those moments, because with those moments, I realize that there was someone who never gave up and, above all, continued to fight; someone who says, "kaya ta ni" (we can do this) and, "may paagi pa" (there's still a way) even if she was already in tears; someone who has this unwavering faith in God and the idea that He will not give us a cross that we cannot afford to carry; and someone who can stand in front of judging people with much humility and pride; someone I call--- my mother.
My mother is not an extraordinary mother. She commits mistakes just like any other person out there. If you put her in a crowd, you will not even recognize her. You see her, and you may not see anything special. Yes, I am not ashamed to say that my mother is ordinary. But the thing is, out of her ordinary works and words, she has made an extraordinary life for my sister and I, a life that is full of love and understanding, of tenderness and of hope...
She is the most special girl in my life next to no one. For the past three years that I have been away, there was not a single moment that I felt that she was not there. Her presence in me is so strong that I do not need her to be with me physically, for just the thought of her brings me her hugs and kisses from across the seas. And now that I am with her again, I take every opportunity to show her how much she means to me...
She is the one who really completes me. She is the reason why I am here, and I shall be grateful for that forever. Some people say that they are ready to die for others so that they may call themselves noble. I say, I am willing to live all my life just to make my mother's life noble. Because for me, mothers deserve much nobility like that of a hero. Because my mother? Yes, she is my hero...
Remember, lightning could strike even on Mothers' day...
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