THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE

Wow! It's true my parents are the light of my life. Now that I'm 47 I have appreciated more the things and the sacrifices my parents did for me and my siblings. It's true they are not both perfect but my parents( nanay and tatay) tried their best and not just their best but all of their best. As I look out of the window today admiring my plants at the wall where I placed them and the colors of the leaves and and the mixture of different variety of plants gives me too much joy and always make me smile I suddenly remember my loving parents how they have worked hard and have to sacrifice big and little things that each one of them liked so that in the future they can give me and my siblings better life and I can't helped wondering if my best was enough for my two daughters ,I feel sad knowing and realizing that all the best I gave to my girls are not even close to what my parents gave me. In terms of material things, and security and honor . I feel that I have not given them at that time and until now , all these even if I say it was all my best. But there is one thing that I'm one hundred percent sure I gave them before and until now and until I die and that is my devotion as a mother and my undying love for my daughters.

Tatay and Nanay and my siblings have been so supportive of me not just in my childhood times ,but also in my teen age years and most of all my married life , most of all my parents were there for me when I really needed them most, when my life turned into the wrong road, they were there to pick me up dust me and hold both my hands when I fell to the ground and they both held my hands and taught me again to walk and start again and hand in hand together with them I was able to survive the storms in my life , it was just like on my wedding day when they walked side by side with me to the altar and handing me over to my husband but this time they walked side by side with me never letting go of my hands and didn't hand me over to anyone but they just walk with me to the road of recovery .They are truly the light of my life. How i wish i can do more to them not to repay them for being a parents and for the helped and support but just simply because I LOVE THEM BOTH WITH ALL MY HEART and vow to respect them for the rest of my life because I could never repay them .Now that I'm a parent I realize many things and I hope too that my readers will start to look back and examine their hearts and start appreciating their parents because I know there were questions before about our parents that only now we can answer and understand , somethings that we think it was wrong but today it is not anymore because we benefit from that.

If I write it down the material things , the help, the support all the things my parents did to me and also I will write down what I did for them ,and have given them , truly even now I'm too ashamed to admit I have not done even half of what they have done and given to me.They are parents they don't do this because they expect a pay back in the future, everything they have given to us is a preparation not for them but for us when we become parents also. To my readers also don't forget to list down also the little things that they have done and asked ourselves these little things did I do this for them? And you will be surprised that there are little things you overlook and have not done to them. They are not perfect, only God is perfect they also too were daughters and sons during their times and when they said don't do this and don't do that it's because they want to improve what they were not before and hoping that we will have a good shot in life .So while you can still say your appreciation to your parents hurry ! hurry! hurry don't waste your time and don't wait, do it now or it will be too late to make them feel the love they deserved from their children. They are the light of my life but it's up to each one of us also to continue that light to burn and pass it on to our children and when YOU HAVE GOD BECAUSE HE IS LOVE THEN NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. TO MY PARENTS NANAY AND TATAY I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART AND I VOW TO RESPECT YOU AND LOVE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.