It’s been weeks already that I haven’t updated my blog. Since it was semester break, I spent the week in my hometown—Canlaon City. I also spent there my all souls and all saints day. It was a nice experience to be back in the place where I grew up. I met some of my school mates during high school and I really had fun chating with them about there lives in their respective schools in Bacolod City. Some of them were not able to continue studying because of financial problems that is why some of them got pregnant and at a young age, they are carrying babies with them. Somehow, I feel so blessed that thing didn’t happen to me. Yet I still pity them because of a great responsibility given to them as a consequence of their own mistakes. It saddens me because my cousin is one of them.
My cousin is a demure type of girl. I haven’t heard her having a boyfriend ever since. Her parents are strict to her. She is smart and responsible. In fact, she gets higher grades far way different from mine. She studied well during high school because she wanted to prove her parents that she is worth. She graduated with honors and I was really proud of her seating on stage. But then, even if she made her best, she wasn’t sent to college by her parent due to financial instability. Her parents didn’t even bother. She was disappointed that she became so pessimistic. She thought that her parents don’t love her. So, she opted to have a boyfriend thinking that she would find comfort. But her boyfriend took advantage to every woman’s weakness and they made a wrong deed. Weeks after she discovered that she was pregnant.
I couldn’t blame her solely. Because somehow I see that her parents had a fault. They didn’t explain everything to my cousin. They were not able to talk to my cousin on what my cousin feels. She is hurting inside yet they seem not to care at all. They lack communication.
In this situation, I understand how important communication and love in a home. Each member of the family is accountable on whatever may happen to one another. That every problem a member has, it should be solved together. The most important of all, God should be center of the family. Because a family that prays together stays together.