The Journey of my Existence

 "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant to be your

own person, be independent."

- Ruth Bader Gisburg

    Most of the people at my young age were enjoying what life is, going out and partying with their friends, traveling around different places with their families, already decided what their future will be and already found the meaning of happiness. On the other dimension, I found myself again thinking deeply, reminiscing about how miserable my life is, is this how my life will be eternally? Am I being myself?

    Divina Angela Pagador Raquepo is my full name, but you could call me "Divs" or "Angel" in short. I am a fifteen year-old student, I am already in 10th grade at Ilocos Sur National High School ( ISNHS ). Right now, I am living at Poblacion East, San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur. I was born in Gabriela Silang General Hospital, Tamag, Vigan City on April 23rd of the year 2006. My father is an Overseas Filipino Worker at Dubai, while my mom is a housewife. Presently, I am an only child. I love being alone, an introvert person what they called. Being by myself makes me calm and gives me peace, I am not a social person for the reason of I am not comfortable for some people and also I do not have the confidence to face people. Aside from that, let's talk about the things that I likes or love. It became my hobbies to play online games, reading wattpad app/wattpad books or webtoon, playing with my pet cats, and watching a tutorial how to cook when I have spare time. The colors that I adore are blue, green, and lastly, white. I like rainy days, and I find it more relaxing to read while sipping a cup of coffee while jackets are wrapping around my body. Next thing, let's talk about my pet peeves. My biggest pet peeve of all time is having a surroundings that have a super or loud noises, it distracts me especially when I am having a class. One of my pet peeves also, those people who are rude.

    In my journey of life, I've been through a lot of difficulty. Our life is like a roller coster indeed, sometimes we're at the top, sometimes we are at lowest part. There are so many silent battles that we already fought independently, and I must say, I'm so proud of myself. Despite all those sleepless nights, silent tears, want to end our lives, feeling like the world already turns around in me, we survived, we didn't expect to survive. Life really gives us unexpected situations that we thought we coudn't overcome, but we did. And because of that, we are still here fighting for our happiness and future. Because of those serious complications we've been through, we became more stronger and became more independent person. Those situations where we already don't know ourselves, where we don't know what paths should we continue to walk on, where we don't know what would our future be, am I being myself? I must say, those struggles answered my question in my mind, whatever our future would be, let's remain more stronger and bolder. I realized, life gets harder as we became older but if being strong is our only exception, we will survive. Let us prioritize our happiness. 

    At this young age, I realized that I should enjoy my teen life. Instead of locking myself inside my room, while just reading a piece of book, I realized I should let myself explore outside the whole world. I should let myself enjoy the life that God gave. Make a lists that I need to do and will starts it now, in order not to regret at the end of time. 

    A teen-girl with a huge dream, I am pursuing to be a Certified Public Accountant and after that I will take a law. I don't want only to help people, but also I want to have change in our law system in our generation. I want them to realize that all of us are equal, that not only those rich people can achieve justice, but all of us. Aside from that, I want to make my parents proud and feel like their hard work is paid off. I had a rough beginning but it made me who I am today.