when i was young, we were poor. i had known about it even when i was still small. my parents dont buy me the toys i want just like my cousins have. i seldom have a new shirt or a pair of pants except maybe on christmas day. and my birthdays would always be pancit. so i said to myself. i want to become rich. i want to own businesses so i could buy what i want and what people close to me desire. "i want to be rich". that was my dream.
i went and finished college until i landed a job. when i have money, i didn't spend it like the rest of my co-employees do. i stuck it under my bed. i don't know what business to have. all i know is i want to get rich. so when oppurtunity grants me, i put up a business of my own. and may i say i had been to quiet a few: i had put up a small scale restobar, sold eload, sari-sari store. i tried lending.. they all failed..
was i upset? not really. it really didn't matter. "pobre na gud ko daan. nag-gikan ko sa pagka-pobre. and going back sa pagka-pobre is no foreign situation for me. kaya ra kaayo nako." i just say to myself "well back to square one lang gud". i just put to mind that it was all part of the learning process i had to go through. it's just a bit sad because i have to learn the hard way. i moved on. and continue to work like other people do. having an 8 to 5 day job.
i was out of business but i never let go of that childhood dream.
now, i find myself swimming back into the very ocean where i drowned and failed. but this time i am wiser. stronger and more equipped with knowledge out of failing. i now have a carenderia and is reopening opening once more a restobar... next month i will be opening a small scale fast food.
maybe i will fail again. maybe i won't. nobody knows. but at least i am doing it. i am still on that journey towards that childhood dream. the dream i alwas keep in my heart. maybe i will succeed but i am still not sure. i will never know. only when i will get there....
who knows, basin maabot ra unya ko didto. kitakitz lang unya mga dreamers.
- quoted from my friend "chokito"