Out of the Darkness

‎Life is not as beautiful as we think. ‎Someone says life is a cycle, there’s a time it goes down, and it goes up again. ‎But for me, my life always seems to be in a downward spiral. ‎My life is always in a dark place. I feel like the light will never return, but that feeling is not necessarily a permanent truth. It is possible for things to change, even if it doesn't feel that way now. ‎ ‎My life is full of hate, tiredness, pain, sorrow, and sadness. ‎No one has ever truly loved me since the day I was born. ‎My parents abandoned me, and my aunt and uncle are the only ones who adopted me. ‎Gusto ko silang pasalamatan dahil sa pagkupkop nila sa akin ngunit hindi ko masabi dahil sa pag trato nila sa akin na parang basura lang. ‎Na para bang nabuhay lang ako upang iparanas sa akin ang sakit sa pang araw-araw na buhay. ‎They treat me like a maid. I do almost all the household chores. I couldn't even go to college because they wouldn't let me saying they wouldn't have anyone to boss around at home, and that it would just be a waste of money. ‎Sinubukan kong kausapin sila tungkol sa pangarap kong makapag-aral sa kolehiyo, pero napagsabihan lang ako nang masama at sinaktan nila ako. Mula noon, hindi ko na sinubukang kausapin pa sila tungkol sa pag-aaral ko. ‎ ‎One day, someone drifted into my isolated world, and I genuinely believed he possessed the map to guide me out of the shadows. I clung to that hope, thinking my rescue was finally at hand. But it wasn't long before everything shifted; what I expected to be a dawn of a new life instead became a prolonged, suffocating twilight. The pain he left in his wake made my darkness even more profound than before. I am attempting to move on now, a journey that I quickly discovered is not nearly as simple as one might assume.