PROLOGUE
348 Words
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.
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