Philosophy 101 - Personal Essay

Marmito, Liezel F.       Philo 101

Grade 11 STEMA6      Paperwork #2

They said that you can choose your friends but not your family. In our entire existence, we have and will endure plenty of pain,  make a lot of choices, which will shape us throughout the years. But there is something else in between; it's what will push us to do or not do that action. It's the people in our lives that makes us "us". It is no other than our family.

As time passed by, my family have encountered different problems. My parents split up, my brother is epileptic, my father got into a operation in his waist that became the reason why he wasn't able to work, and lead to another problem that my family have to face which is the financial problem. My mom doesn't have a stable work that makes it complicated for us. Up until now, we have been experiencing it. They even sell some of our things to have a money. It's so hard to see that my parents is suffering for us just so we can eat three times a day, just for us to go to school everyday and to give what we need. Those sacrifices that we don't, sometimes, realized

My siblings and i are so lucky to have them as our parents, but do they deserve us? Like what i have said earlier, they got seperated before because my father had a relationship with a woman he meet at work, and they had a daughter. This is one of the biggest challenge that my family had faced. Which caused my mother to leave the country to work abroad and also to forget the pain that my father have given to her and to our family. It's so hard for us to wake up every morning and not being able to see our mother. Those 2 years was so unbearable. I couldn't imagine that my mother, who was living like a queen before, is cleaning somebody's house and taking care some one's children instead of us. And to make it up to her, we make sure that our grades are way more better than before. After 2 years, my mother had suprised us when she came back here in the Philippines but it wasn't easy for her because she needs to hide for almost 2 months in the home of abused just for her to go home. Hearing her stories makes me love her even more. Knowing all her pain and sacrifices in Jordan is one of the reason why i love her so much. In God's perfect time, He makes my parents relationship even stronger. They started things all over again, like what have they done before. It's so overwhelming to see how my parents loved each other and helps our family be back like what we are before.

I've been doing bad stuff and bad decision in my life. One of it is disobeying my parents decision and rules for me. I love dancing, so much, and i disobeyed my father's decision just to continue my passion for dancing and i don't regret it. When i disobeyed my father, he was so mad at me, he don't even talk to me for like 2 months. I couldn't take it anymore so i confronted him about my passion in dancing, and gladly he promised me to support my dancing career as much as they can even though it cost a lot of money. And i thank God for giving me my understandiny parents.

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