If there's one thing that makes me and my husband having similarities is our love for our family. When our family both sides facing something we always said to each other that we are truly destined because we have in the same situation and attitude on how to handle it. Everytime we talked about this matter I always said to him that in my situation it's more understandable because I am the eldest among my siblings and I need to be an ate to them. In his case he is the youngest child but it feels like he is the eldest because of the responsibilities.
It is so funny when we told each other to not stress ourselves with our siblings problem but end up helping them even if we always said that we didn't help them because they need to be responsible and learn to stand on thier own and not always thinking that there's someone who will help them. Similarities makes us get to know more each other as a person, a daughter/son and sibling.
I am the eldest among my siblings and as an ate I want to be responsible and be a model to my siblings especially now that our family is facing something. We are not rich but I can say that I can save a little because I am a wise spender and thinking always for the next day thats why I save. My savings is for our future ofcourse but because sometimes there's an emergency in our family I used those savings to help them.
My husband is a minimum wage earner here in our province and I have my earnings money here in both platform. My noise.cash earnings will be use for emergency purposes and my read.cash earnings is for my savings thats why I hold it. We have a son and he is a breastfeeding to me and it's s lot of help for our budget. I am only budgeting the salary of my husband that he has given me and if it's not enough I will withdraw some of my Bitcoincash because sometimes I am craving for something or I need to buy something that is not included on the budget. So that's our budget routine.
Then my siblings will talk to me to ask for some money as I am like a rich person. They didn't know that I am just budgeting the money to be able to save for our future.
Like now , the money that my husband gave to me is not enough for our two weeks budget because when we go to my in-laws house we gave them a sack of rice and that's not included on our budget. We also bought some fruits to his brother because he was sicked. I pay for the dryer repair because we need to fix that as rainy days is coming and we need a dryer for the clothes. I also bought some needs here in the house that is not included in our budget. What I did is I withdraw some savings on my Gcash account because the next salary of my husband will be on 20th of this month. It's in Sunday.
Yesterday my sister borrowed some money to me as if I have always spare in my wallet. She borrowed one thousand pesos because the formula milk of my niece is not enough until her payday. I give her the one thousand pesos even if that's the only extra money left in my wallet. Also yesterday in the afternoon my younger brother chatted me and asked for some money too. I was so annoyed to him because he only remember me when he will borrow some money. The last money he borrowed is not paid yet and now he is borrowing again. I said to him that I don't have any money on my Gcash account and he didn't replied but after a few minutes he chatted me again and just like the old times I sent him money.
I remember the time that my father saying an apology to my husband because of my families set up and we both laugh together and I told my father that we are so used in that kind of situation because his family are like that too. Sometimes we talk about that because it feels like we can't concentrate on our own family because of the needs our siblings.
Don't get me wrong , we are happy to help and I know we are lucky because we have something that can give to them but sometimes we also thought of concentrating on my own family but we can't do that. We are not both selfish to think about our own family thinking that our parents and siblings needs help. We have a strong faith that God is a great provider and I know He knows the desire of our hearts and I know someday God will bless us abundantly and we will be very happy to extent our hands to those who needs help. And because of that similarities , helping is not an issue to us because we understand each other.
This is my entry to @JonicaBradley . A prompt series about the word “Similarities.” .
I apologized for this online diary of mine 😂
We can't run away from our responsibility and the similarity between us is the act of helping others in need. We would surely meet those we are going to help and in our little way, we do what we can afford. Same thing with me. Even though I thought I could keep saving up my bch Earnings, I still find my way in helping especially my siblings. The prayer we should keep praying is for God to keep blessing us beyond measure so we can keep extending our hands to those in needs.