So to be honest, I don’t know how to start since I have never been interviewing people around on a certain topic and I never did the conscious effort to do so. But luckily one Friday just give me a reason to write again.
I just finished my class at 9:00 and decided to walk myself home since I don’t have enough cash left anymore for the ride. I was also worried that by the end of the week I might not be able to go to school if I spend most of my money on the ride. Since its Friday and I had never done any physical activity lately I gave in to the idea of walking home.
As I was starting to exit the school gate, I fasten my walking phase towards the main highway. Not so far away I’ve seen two familiar figures walking themselves home, I assume. I tried to catch up the two petite girls who were in my class too and decided to walk together with them. Well, they were kind enough to let me joined their phase on the way home while both of them were chatting. In the nearby intersection the other girls bid goodbye as the other one had to continue walking straight that were we started our conversation.
Her name was Fritzie, petite, slender and tanned colored. She lives with her Aunt in a big house but her family hails in another Municipality. She was one of my favorite to say since she’s not only good in sewing and designing she’s also polite and soft spoken, a girl full of Hope, ambition and dreams. While on the road I ask her a few several questions just to draw out her ideas on the certain topic, Hope.
So you live with your Auntie? Isn’t it hard?
Living away from your family is difficult but at least I am lucky that I am living with my auntie. She’s still like family to me but it’s really different when its not your own comfort zone but i know this condition will not be forever so i have to do my best and waste no efforts.
Do you miss your parents?
Of course I do but I don’t need to worry much since they often come to visit me here in Tagbilaran. We really live in Negros Oriental, in San Carlos and it’s just that I have to go to college that we have to migrate here for a while. As much as I want all of us staying together in one place I had to bare with our recent condition to be able to fulfill my dream of graduating in college.
How important is Education to you?
It is very important for me. I have hope someday that if I finished college I might be able to find a good job and help my parents uplift our condition. Who does not dream for a better future? I guess everyone does but the perseverance to achieve that better future should be something more bigger than your dreams. Do you think you can achieve your dreams? I do. I am already in 3rd year of my college and I think I will not be able to succeed all those years of torture in school if I am not holding to my dreams. I do hope that this is a key to succeed in what ever ambition we have in life. I hope to be a good designer someday and I am trying to achieve that simple ambition a have in life.
Do you have failing subjects?
Honestly, yes I do have. But I do not stop from where I stumble. I always make it a point to stand up every time I fall down. I am not so good with numbers so to be honest but I am trying my best to understand and love mathematics. I do not lose hope so easily because if I do how will I be able to proceed?
How come you have lots of hope? Aren’t you hoping too much?
Because i believe that in times we are troubled and don’t know what to do hope is all that’s left of us. If i let go of that single thing that keeps going with my dreams then maybe i might not be able to achieve my goals. I also believe that there is no much if its hope. Its not wrong to hope you aid it with actions. In my case i am not just hoping and waiting for it to happen. Of course, i had to do something and that’s why i am studying very well to finished my college. This is what i hope for and this is the hope of my parents which i will not fail.
Then our conversation had to be cut short since her home was already nearby. But to myself that short and interesting conversation with Fritzie brought me to one of the quotes I will borrow from Percy Jackson and the Olympian series. At the book four of the said series when the conflict of the protagonist was at its tipping point he said “Hope survives best at the hearth”. That means when your about to give up always hold on to it because it will never leave without being given permission. To dream is free and so is to hope. Perhaps if we all hope for something better it might be given.
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