New Year's Day Away from Home.

This is already my 4th new year away from home, but still i felt the loneliness other people feel. But we need to be happy and look at life on the positive sides.

Last January 01 of 2005 the only new year i spend with my loving wife and only daughter Shekinah for our 6years as a family. That was a happy celebration... We have received christmas package from my previous company. I have christmas bonus and mostly i am with my family.

But then i have great problems; my child needs recontructive surgery for her clef lip and pallate; my housing loan arrears soar to 11 months, my ATM is already taken as collateral for cash loans. I have no even centavo savings on my account. Its been a time of worries for me.

The following months my child really needs to undergo surgery because she is already 1 year old and learning to speak. I call DSWD I ask everyone who can help me and God is Greate and very much helpful to me i learn about PBM or Philippine Band of Mercy one foundation who help those with clef lip patient like my child. And 2 times surgery of my child was finished.

And now after 4 years.... i spent christmas and new years away from them but the good thing is at least i have updated the payment for my housing loan. I have no loans like before. Sometimes i can give some amount of money for my parents and brother. My wife can buy something for our dear home. And most of all my wife now is not bothered by many bill which before she don't know how to be paid.

I cannot give everything for my child because my salary as maintenance personnel is not that much. But she has all the basic necesities in life food, good house, dresses. Thats may not be enough but just fine unlike other people who has no prepared food for every day.

New years day away from them is really lonely but thats the reality of life a life of poor peoples. What we are now is what our parents did so we have the choice now of what our chilrens life would be in the future...

It is ok to spend 3 more new years away from them but i have enough to send my kids to school and give her the necesities for life.

A HAPPY AND ABUNDANT NEW YEAR TO ALL!!! GOD BLESS.