#2: Rosario

    The thing that I consider valuable would be a rosary. I grew up in an environment where both of my parents are strong believers. They would always remind us that we should do the right things, things that won't hurt people. After learning things about my religion, I decided that some of it would be my bases of decision making. This has helped me in finding myself yet there are still things that need to be discovered. 

 Our family has the habit of doing the rosary every month of October. We would gather around and pray the rosary. Each of us would take turn to be a leader. This habit started when I was very young and it is still being continued.

  I always bring a rosary with me. This has been a reminder that everywhere I go someone is looking out for me and I know that you know who that person is. This also reminds me that what challenges my family will be facing in the near future we would accomplish it by means of praying and trusting each other.

A Christmas Worth Remembering

Most of the people say that Christmas season is the best each year. It brings family closer than ever. Lets you bond by spending time with them. People do caroling outside your house. You see people going to church with their family, buying gifts in stores and waiting for Christmas Eve.

Every December, my family in the mother’s side would go to our grandparent’s house and celebrate Christmas together. This was the time of the year where we get to see our grandparents and relatives. We would chat all day and night about how life was in the past months. The older ones would play mah-jong or cards for fun. The young ones would roam around the city or do standby at the beach. A day before Christmas we would all be very busy, our aunties and uncles would plan on what food they would serve at Christmas Eve. Some of us would do the marketing and mostly some of us would find a good opportunity to buy gifts for our “manitos or manitas”. At Christmas Eve, we would go to church altogether, roam around the city plaza wherein it was decorated with colorful lights. Each tree no matter what the sizes were it was also decorated. It was so magical, satisfying in the eyes and was weirdly comforting for me due to the fact that my family and relatives was watching with me. We went home after and ate; we were all famished with the sightseeing. We played games and finally gave the gift to our “manitos or manitas”. This became a family tradition until the time when both of my grandparents died.

This memory of my time with my grandparents spending Christmas was the one which is always alive and well in my mind. It has taught me many things, like how to be strong and wise in times of crisis, anytime someone whom you love will perish and this connects to the others in which that when you’re with your loved ones cherish every moment you have with them and love them unconditionally.