Short Story: Achieving Success

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I came from a poor family where I have eight siblings, five girls and four boys (including me). I am just a boy who only wishes to graduate and receive a diploma someday. So that, I can help my family by giving them a life without hardships. Not boasting, but I'm proud to say that I'm the top 1 in our batch and I'm the Valedictorian when I graduated in elementary. But it's hard for me to study normal because of the bullies who're surrounding me every year just because of my ugly physical appearance. Even though my life is hard I'm still happy, because of my family who's always beside and supporting me in every decisions I make in my life. We're solving our problems as a family, as one. I also experienced eating just one time in a day and just drinking water to make our stomachs full. We're okay in that way of life.. Hard, but happy. Then another problem came. My father had Tuberculosis and he can't work anymore. So that, as one of the boys in the family, I need to stop in studying and work instead. Because it's harder to get a work in the province, I decided to go in Metro Manila where I believed that I can get my family a better life and believed that there, I can save money for my tuition fee and continue of studying. My life here in Manila is not easy. Even if there are lots of cruel people who're still teasing me here, instead of surrending I just make them as my inspiration to change myself in the future and I'm just also thinking about the hardships that my family in province is experiencing right now. What about my sick father? What about the education of my siblings there? How can they live If I'll not give them money? Because of this experience in my life, I learned on how to stay positive in life in times where you can say that there's no point of having hope anymore. Instead of  just chilling in any corner, I chose to sacrifice and help them with all my strength. All my life I always depend on my parents, then I just realized that maybe this is the right time where I can exchange this sacrifice for the good things they have done to me. I'm working as a dishwasher in a small food restaurant in the evening, while also working as a janitor on a company building in the morning. As hard days passed, I became more positive in life and thinking that I can pass all the challenges of God to me, while believing that I'll be successfull someday too.  Thinking that someday, people will not make fun of me. Because of my hard work, I already saved the exact tuition fee that I'll need to attend school for taking the course of Business Administration. There I met Sandara. Sandara Ocampo who has a bipolar attitude. Sometimes childish, strong like amazona, serious, has her bitchy attitude but inspite all these attitudes, she has a good heart. Sandara who's been chased by lots of boys in our school because of her beauty, being smart and rich. Haay. That's why I'm not really hoping that she'll ever notice me. Who can even notice an ugly nerd like me? Nothing. If you'll compare me to her admirers, for sure you'll just laugh and call me a stalker. But my thoughts all changed because of her.. Because of an incident that's maybe bad, but I don't regret it happened to me..