How a fisherman lives? Do you think he can succeed in life?
I want to share with you the story behind the success of our careers. It’s because of a man, a very diligent hard-working man, He’s my father. Like a normal love story, my father courted my mother and married her. Both of them are not coming from wealthy families, that’s why they really live in hardship but they did not surrender from it easily. Because of a lack of education, they cannot find a high-paying job. They decided to live on a faraway island in Cawag, Subic named “Kinabuksan”. My father's parents first discovered the island, developed and nurtured it. My parents live in a hut at that time, as in when you know the box of groceries, they use it as their bed with dried grass called “kugon” as their roof. My father catches fish to be able to sustain daily expenses, he is a fisherman. We don’t have a boat before that’s why he’s go fishing with others who own a boat, it’s called “pamamasahero”. My mother is a plain housewife, taking care of us (their child).
They started from a simple life, sometimes they earn, sometimes they don’t, meaning there’s no luck in fishing but still, they continue living. They set their goals in life, they striving for the future of their kids and they didn’t stop dreaming that someday they will achieve those goals. My father was a very dedicated man, I can say he is strict but by his way of striving and focusing on his work, I can say that he cares for us, especially for our future. He really doesn’t want us to work hard like them. As I'm writing this article I am crying because all the hardship that we encountered before especially my father has come back on my memories.
Years passed because of my father's dedication to his work and at that time, education on an island is not that too costly, he saved an amount to buy his own boat. With his own boat, meaning double income because all the income will be his, there is no need to give the share for the boat owner. Another year passed, they build their house using cement with “yero” as the roof, a concrete house to live in. Then he bought another boat and then the house and they save more for our high school and college education. But that’s not coming as simple as that, being a fisherman is not an easy job. You need to leave the house at midnight and you need to stay in the middle of the ocean for three days. It’s good if the weather is always in a nice shape, the ocean is beautiful as it is but if there’s a typhoon or a monsoon, the ocean is hell as you can’t imagine. There are times that my father lost in the ocean and we didn’t know that it happened to them. Our boat sunk in the ocean, a good thing there are good people who are also fishermen who helped them going back to the shore. Thank God, they are all safe but the sad part our boat is gone. It's a good thing that time we have two boats already. My father did not frighten off on that unexpected event in his life or it is because he won't have much of a choice. We will get hungry if he stops fishing.
I am an accountant now in a private company, my sister is a public teacher, while my brother is a private teacher. My younger sister was a BSBA graduate but her husband wanted her to stay at home to take care of their children. My other brother was a Computer Technician graduate but he changes his career because the father of his wife is a good “ Foreman”. He learned about building houses and all about repairs and also about electrical matters from his father-in-law. He’s the one making our house. But now he works in the gov’t as internal security. My father now is sixty-eight years old, at his fifties we told him to stop working, he is now doing gardening in the backyard together with my mother. We lived in one compound but in different houses.
What are the main ingredients of success? Set your goals, stick to them and focus on them even you fall down just stand up again and fight, this time be more strong, be more ready because you know there’s a lot of struggles coming your way. But still, whatever you measure will improve. No one can tell until it's happening until you are there at the moment. Always trust yourself and your good intention to whatever your goals are and give it all to God when you feel that you can't do it alone.
“Life is too short, always choose Happiness because you deserve it!”
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