Hello everyone!
Hope all are safe and well! ☺️❤️🙏
Before I go back home to Leyte, there’s one place I really wish to visit, it's Venice, Taguig. I’ve seen many beautiful photos of it online, and I told myself that maybe, someday, I’ll finally see it in person. For now, I only have a photo of myself there, created using Gemini AI. 🤭 It might not be real, but it gives me a glimpse of what it would feel like that is peaceful, classy, and full of dreams.
In just four weeks, I’ll finally be home in Leyte. That means six long months here in Manila. It's six months full of lessons, realizations, and silent battles. If I had looked for work, maybe I’d already have one by now. But life had other plans.
I came to Manila thinking I’d only stay for a few weeks. My partner and I were just supposed to prepare his papers for work abroad. But things didn’t go as smoothly as we expected. There were delays, uncertainties, and days when we had almost nothing. Yet, even with all those struggles, we survived. 💪🙏
When I look back, I can only say, it was God who sustained us. 🙏
Now, my partner has been abroad for nearly two months. I’m proud of him for enduring and pushing forward for our future. I miss him every day, but I’m also grateful that he’s okay and doing his best. As for me, I’m still here in Manila, staying a bit longer before finally flying home. I already got my ticket, and that moment brought me a quiet kind of joy like a small light after a long tunnel.
While preparing for my flight, I realized I didn’t have any luggage because I only came here with a backpack, thinking I’d stay for a week. 😅 But now, I have so many things, especially gifts from my aunt in Taytay. So I searched online and found an affordable 28-inch luggage on Shopee. I hope it’s enough for all my belongings since I already added 20kg check-in baggage.
I still have one month left here. I don’t have work, but I am deeply grateful to Hive for giving me a small space to express, to breathe, and to earn even just a little. It may not be much, but it keeps me going. I’m also thankful to my partner who still finds ways to help me despite his own struggles abroad. He’s working hard to pay his placement fees and debts. Once everything is settled, we both dream of starting a small business in Leyte, something we can call our own. 🙏💪
Sometimes, I feel down thinking about how uncertain things are. There are personal battles I carry silently, things that weigh heavily on my heart like fears, regrets, and mistakes that I wish I could undo. There are moments when I feel like I’m drowning in my own thoughts, gasping for hope.
But every time I feel weak, I pray. I ask God to give me strength because deep inside, I know He’s the only one who truly understands what I’m going through. 🙏🙏🙏
There are things I can’t say here, not because I don’t trust people, but because some pains are too personal, too heavy to put into words. Still, even in silence, I hold on to my faith that one day, I’ll overcome this. Maybe this is just a chapter of pruning a season that God uses to shape me and prepare me for something better. 🙏
Have a Blessed Tuesday everyone! 😀😀😀💖💖💖
Thank You Lord for the blessings and love!
Be grateful in every little/simple things and you’ll find happiness you ever wanted! 😀😀😀
Everyday is worth to be grateful of!
Praying for the safety and wellness of all.
Heal Our Land Oh God!
Lovelots,
@shikika
