Sometimes life is so unfair

Article #9

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We have different struggles in life, financially, emotionally and physically, some survive but some don't and choose to end up their life, so sad but that's true, that's life, that reality.

Her name is lucy, she is the 2nd among three siblings, her mom gets married at the very young age of 16 while her dad is 20 years older than her mom, her dad is hardworking, generous and a good provider so that they grow up in a healthy and prosperous life. They can eat whatever food they want and have new clothes every payday from her dad.

One day Lucy's father came home tired and looked sick, they were worried but his father said he was just tired from work and he will be fine no need to worry he added, so they let her dad rest and then back to work the next day.

Eventually, lucys father's body collapsed until they found out that her father has lung cancer, they treated him and spent all their property for their father's treatment, but lucys father's illness gets worsened until his earth full body cannot handle it and said goodbye to the world.

It was very painful to Lucy because she was also close to her father, but she had no choice but to continue living and because all their property has been sold and they can't afford the rented apartment, they leave for a while in the streets, they sleep in ccp complex, Luneta and seawall, until one of their relative offerings a shelter for them and send lucys sibling to school again in return they will work as a housemaid for them, lucys family agreed on the condition of their relative, even that the relative they living in treated them bad they need to be patient just to finish their studies, despite all the hardship that they going thru they survived and graduated from high school.

Then lucy's elder brother fined a job as a gasoline boy, it has a good salary so they moved to an apartment of their own, while lucy and her younger sister worked as a housemaid and every Sunday they have visited their mom and elder brother in the apartment they rented, they will stay there overnight and by the next day, they will go back to their employer's house again.

Years passed by and lucy applied to work in japan, luckily she got an audition directly and work in japan for 2 and half years in total (every 6 months she went home to renew her contract). Then she applied for a housing loan in PAG-IBIG FUND, after 3 months of waiting the PAG-IBIG FUND approved her housing loan then they move directly to their new house.

For now, lucy and their sibling have their own family, but lucy still chooses to work abroad as a domestic helper until this moment to provide for the needs of her kids, as much as possible she doesn't want her kids to experience the hardship that she going thru when she was young, she wants to give the best for her kids.

Lucy is one of my friends, her stories inspired me too much, I have a teary eye when she reveals to me her struggles in life, I can say that I am still lucky because even if I grow up in a poor family I never experience sleeping in the street and eating food from the garbage, lucy is a strong woman I knew I salute to her.

Sometimes life is so unfair but it's up to us how to handle it and survive the journey called life.

That's all for now, hope that you like my article, and feel free to comment with your opinion.

Publish:June 27, 2022

Time:9:54 pm Philippines

Author:@wildflower27