I am Dan, my parents are not rich but they give me everything I want. Even though my parents don’t have money, they find ways to buy me what I want. That’s why I became arrogant and disrespectful to them. Even though, sometimes I see my mother crying, I don’t care. One day I saw that my classmate had a new motorcycle ant it was beautiful, I was jealous so I also told my parents that I wanted a new motorcycle because my motorcycle was old. My father called me and talked to me, he said son we can’t give you what you want now because our banana crops failed so we didn’t harvest anything. That’s when I got angry and said that I would stop study if they didn’t buy me one, because I didn’t go to school anymore my father forced to sell his buffalo so he could buy me a new motorcycle.
I was very happy when my parents bought me a new motorcycle but despite them following my wishes, I still didn’t listen them. I always cutting classes and often didn’t go to school. At that time, I didn’t care about my parents feelings, even though I saw my mother crying everyday, I ignored it. They always scolded me but I was still angry.
Until the big problem came in my life. One day someone called me and told me that my parents had an accident. I went to the hospital but I couldn’t find them alive. In an instant, the people who gave me luxuries, the people who truly loved me, are gone. That’s when I though about what I would do now that I was the only one in life. I didn’t know how to work yet, I just knew how to ask my parents they’re already gone.
After my parent’s funeral, I lived at my uncle’s house. He let me live there because I had no one at home. At first, they were kind to me, but after a while, their true attitude came out. They made me clean the whole house, sweep and cook even though I didn’t know anything about housework. So mots of the time my work was always sloppy. They always scolded me until they kicked me out of their house.
I went to one of our relatives, their house was small and they had many children. They were poor but my aunt was kind. We slept crowded together and sometimes ate stale food. I cried at my situation because I didn’t eat like this before. Until I decided to work at a fast food chain as a service crew, at first I really had a hard time with my job because I didn’t know anything about work. My boss always scolded me because I usually burned what I cooked or threw it away but I was still grateful because my boss understood me, after a few months I got used to my job and I can do it well.
One day my boss talked to me about why I didn’t study. I said I would combine my work and studies, and my job would be easy for me. I would work during the day and study at night. I followed my boss’s advice, and I was already in college when I quit, it would be a shame if I didn’t continue. I didn’t waste any time the next day I enrolled in a university. I worked hard at my work and my studies, even though my situation was difficult, I still continued for my dream.
Three years passed and I was able to graduate from college. I am very grateful to God because he guided me and he did not abandon me and I told myself that we could do it on our own, congrats to us.
A few months after I graduated. I became a manager at the fast food chain where I worked. I never thought that someone like me who knew nothing about life would be a manager now. I thank to God because even though I was alone in life, I was able to overcome all the challenges that came my way.
Now, I have my own family and three children, I teach them how to be contented in life and not to expect too much, especially if their parents can’t provide for them, but rather to study hard so that your drams in life can come true.
