36 parts Ongoing MatureIt's so hard to be the breadwinner.
It's so hard to live with a mother who sees love as a transaction, a way to climb out of poverty.
With every paycheck, you no longer know how to make it stretch. Everyone depends on you, bills to pay, your father's medicine, your nephew's tuition. Then, when you go home to the province, they greet you only to borrow money.
Pero, kapag hindi ka nakatulong, ikaw pa ang masama. Madamot. Yumabang.
They don't know you cry yourself to sleep every night from exhaustion. They don't know there are times you just want to disappear, but you're not allowed to give up.
So when he came along, the person who never asked you to explain, who never judged you, only then were you able to breathe again.
In a world that keeps dragging you down,
he became your rest.
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