How I wish they won't get old. How I wish they will stay with me forever. How I wish to give them the life they deserves.

I'm not a perfect daughter nor a good daughter. I made mistakes and was sometimes a headache to them. I did some decisions that I knew they was hurt. But I am a daughter who always want best for them as they want best for me. There are times that I decide things that I didn't knew had hurt them because they're sometimes silent. But I knew I made them proud and will always make them proud.

My parents are poor in terms of financial status. I've seen them struggle since I was a child. They both came from poor family also. But there's a difference because my parents dreamt high for their children unlike their parents before. My parents did everything they could just to give us the life we need. But then life was cruel.

Construction worker father

Being a construction worker is hard. Working under the heat of the sun. Making houses of other people and making it beautiful. And then, he lived in a not fully furnished house. Always working for other people's house but can't even finish his own house. Do I have to get mad with him? Of course not. I did witnessed him working hard just for us to have food in our table. Sometimes, he went to the workplace even without a breakfast just because he let his children eat first.

He always told me and my siblings to study well. And that he will face any trials in his life just to make sure that we, his children, won't suffer just like him.

He's already old now but still working as a construction worker because he don't have anyone to lean on. I'm sad because I don't have a work yet to support them. I am still working on to be hired as a teacher. And I am really frustrated to work so that I will let him stop working coz I can support them already if I have work.

Our house was destroyed by the typhoon Odette last year December 2021. And now, my parents are still living in that house but my father find ways to reconstruct it with wood. I can say that we're in crisis because that time he don't have a work and same with me. Just this month, he was now working but not same before, it's like irregular work.

Housewife Mother

She wants to work as a maid or any work that will make her of help to our father. I knew it before even if I was still a child but our father won't let her because he said no one would take care of us. So, she stayed home and takes care of us.

I never heard her complain to our father because they don't have money. My mom is not a nagger person and I seldom hear them fight it's because they don't show it to their children.

I've seen my mom crying not because they fought but because she felt guilty and pity to our father especially those times that we don't have food and we always go to school with incomplete school supplies.

But my mom is a hardworking person. We have this little farm. Actually, it's not ours because the owner just let them take care of the land so that someone will take care of it and the land will be of use. So, my mom plants crops on that land like sweet potato and tora. And she also planted vegetables there. And everyday, she always visits our littlw farm. And we will just go there to get some for food. With that, she able to help our father.

Every weekend after we got from church, we went to the farm to get crops together with our parents. It's the only time that we were all together because during weekdays, we were at school and my father was working. Sometimes, if my father don't have a work, he will go with our mom to the farm and helped her.

My precious gift.

I am just lucky having them both as my parents. They may not be rich in money but they're rich for love of their children. They're not perfect parents but they show their care and love to us even if they was tired and sacrificed a lot.

They crawled for our betterment in life. Even they faced a lot of problems, still they able to let me finished my studies. I've never heard them complaining because I don't have anything to give after I graduated college instead they helped me to boost my faith that someday, I will able to teach in public school. With their words, I always hold onto my dreams that someday I can give the life they deserves. That someday, I will able to pay their sacrifices for our family.

What I always pray is that, I hope I will able to reach my dream while they're still here. So that I can see them happy because of what I did for them. I want them to enjoy life and want to see them laugh loud. I was dreaming for them to experience roaming around with beautiful places which they never experienced. Hopefully, one of this days, I will make it come true for them.

That's all moms and dads in this community. I hope you like the story about my parents.

In case you haven't read my introduction post, here's a short info about me.