If I can travel back in time, I want to be a child again. I spent my childhood in the Philippines, we live in a big compound with three houses where my cousins also lives. Back then, I grow up with my grandmother, because my parents lives here in the USA. Every morning specially in the summer, we will play all sorts of games, from morning 'till dusk. Don't you just love being a child? I love the feeling of being carefree, no need to worry about tomorrow, and of course no bills to pay. Even if I did not grow up with my parents, I always feel grateful, that even though they we're far, they never fail to make me feel loved. My grandmother never forgets to tell me and my siblings that my parents are abroad to provide a better future for us, and luckily in that age I understood what that meant, and instead of feeling abandoned, I appreciate them more. There's time of course that you will feel the need to hug them or see them, and it makes me sad but I know it's even harder for them not to be with their children, so me and my siblings will just always look forward for their calls or those days when they visit Philippines for a vacation. Sad to say, this type of family is very common in a third world country, where people seek job and had to go abroad and sacrifice to be far from their loved ones to provide a better future for their family.
I came here in America five years ago. And currently working as a licensed nurse in a rehabilitation facility. I love being a nurse, for me it's a vocation not a profession. To be able to do more with my profession, I have to get my bachelors, so now I am studying to hopefully get my Bachelor degree in Nursing to further established my chosen career.
If I can foresee the future, I hope to see myself and those I love to be happy, contented and satisfied. But as they say, happiness is not a destination, its a way of life. So, whatever the future holds I lay it all upon to HIM, and all I can do is to do what I think is necessary to have a future that I aspire, live day by day and be thankful.
