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The first photo is the three year old me trying ever so hard to blow the candle out hence the pouty face. I had the simplest problems back then, unaware of the surprises that are yet to come. Years prior to this event, it was couple of minutes past 3 in the morning on the 27th of October, year 2002 when my lovely mother gave birth to me. In barangay Mantuyong, Mandaue City is where I shared all my giggles, laughs and cries. I was brought up by my parents as a loved kid that was responsible, kind and knew how to have fun. I did not have a bad childhood yet I struggled with separation anxiety when I started schooling and it was not fun at all.

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The corners of my lips rise as I look at this next photo, there I see the people that I love and care so much more than anything in the world. My parents, Raul and Mariza are hardworking people that do not have much yet always provided for me and my older sister, Chryselle who recently started her own family, and I instantly also felt what it is like to have my own child because of Lively, my cute niece. I live a pretty simple life with them along with the jokes that we say to each other on a daily basis. It is not all laughs though, like every other family we experience hard times too, those moments where cracking a smile is the hardest thing to do. Being with them warms me up like the sunlight during a sunrise. I am forever grateful for how my parents brought me up, they showed me the world and they were never selfish. This family taught me to love, to laugh and to live my life how I want it.

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Years passed and I am now slowly getting to be my own person. I got to know more on what I like and not, I had built relationships with people that I treasure. I have this hobby of mine that I do for the longest time, it is listening to music with a bluetooth speaker. I could not go a week without doing this, it is like its mandatory for me to do it even just once. This shows my love for music and maybe a little singing. In 2020, during the start of pandemic I learned how to play kalimba or finger piano and could play a song or two. And within this timeline where I made wholesome relationships with my neighbors and my small senior high friend group. I started schooling in our barangay's day care center spent 2 years there. Eventually I  went to the city central school for my elementary education. Then I had my junior high school years at Mandaue City Comprehensive National High School. During the pandemic in the year 2021 I graduated in Senior High School at University of Cebu Lapulapu and Mandaue and started college at Cebu Normal University, I am now a second year college student. I am defined by my relationship to my family as they taught me to be kind, friends as they bring out who I am really, myself as she always push through and God as He taught me to love and forgive. These relationships are not a lot yet they made me glow as someone.

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In my nineteen years, almost twenty of living day by day, I have my fair share of rainbows and grey clouds. I feel the most alive when we go to little escapades and enjoy the world. Bantayan Island is where my mother came from, we visit there every year and each time I am in awe for its beauty. The golden glow it offers are out of this world, it is so magical that it brought its golden glow inside of me, keeping it with me even when I am not at the island. As I would love to make the rainbow last, grey clouds looms over and reminded me of moments I dreaded. It is inevitable to lost people throughout our lifetime yet the pandemic made me lost important people way too early. These last two years, I tried so hard not to lost the golden glow I have and to keep it glowing whatever consequences I might face.

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The future holds scenarios I do not have any idea on what they could be. All I know is to live every day second by second. Do things I want to make me the person I see to be genuinely happy soon. And if the odds are in my favor, the person I want to be is someone who shares her glow to others and someone who is content with the life she lived. To live is to have a purpose and I hope someday I would be dancing my way as I do it.