Living on a Province, Living Alone

                Have you experienced living without the ones you love? Did you feel the loneliness because you’re not beside them? If you’re going to ask me, I will definitely say yes. For sure all of us felt or still feeling the same way, but we have different reasons behind those inverted smiles on our faces.

                When I was still a kid, I used to live with my grandparents because my mother had to leave our place and work abroad. My father, then, also had to work to sustain our daily needs. So I grew up on the side of my grandparents until I graduated from elementary.

Alabat, Quezon

                As summer vacation passed by, my father decided to continue my high school education on our province which is Quezon, particularly in Alabat. The place was very different compared here in Manila. The atmosphere there is refreshing but there’s a side of me where nervousness resides. My mind always reminding and replaying the word, adjust. But thank God because at that time, I had my first cellphone that my mother gave me. That was the only way that I could talk to her.

                Couple of days in school was a bit hard for me because I had to eat alone on the cafeteria every break and lunch times. And I merely don’t know my classmates then. As a defense mechanism, I used to be a silent-type of person. If someone would try to talk to me, I’ll talk but I can’t handle a good conversation. Even though I was like that, I was able to make friends with my classmates. Until I reached my last year in high school, I was able to survive my “loner” days. I survived even though I had silence on my side.