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I’ve been enrolled in a private school throughout my school years. I never experienced being in a public school. Which is why I kinda wanna be when I was little since my playmates in the neighborhood go to public school and I felt out of place. Anyway, throughout high school, I’ve excelled in my studies. I mean not that I’m really an A-student, but I’m the type of person who ‘works hard, plays hard’. Which means I value my friends/ classmates more than schooling, which is a priority.
Now that I’m in college, my mom lets me pay the tuition fee (I don’t pay my tuition fee; still, my parents send me off to college. That’s how it goes here in the Philippines; unless you really have to provide yourself, unlike in other countries, you have to work your ass off to get yourself into college). And you know, college isn’t a joke.
It requires a lot of money and hard work. So the first time my mom handed me a brick fortune of cash, I felt ashamed. Seriously. I felt privileged, loved, and ashamed at the same time. That moment, I blurted out the words ‘Wow’ and ‘Gosh’. (I can’t say Thank You; it’s so cheesy LOL) and my mom asked ‘why?’ and I just said nothing.
I went upstairs and looked at the cash that I had in my hand. And I was thinking how this person let go of a huge amount of money; they worked themselves and I just spent it. That moment I cried inside and I promised to myself that I will work hard and well to graduate college and pay back what they’ve given me. Though we weren’t a kind of family that says ‘I love you’, what they’re providing me is an unspoken truth of love.
