My Entry for SuperBianca's 7th Anniversary

I grew up around the usual broken family drama all my life. From my grandparents, our relatives and down to my parents. That environment on its own pushed me to grow up and be mature enough to take care of myself and my brother. With less adult guidance during my adolescent years, I exaggerated on the thought of "living life to the fullest" and even worst, I got pregnant when I was 15 and gave birth on my 16th birthday, sweet! :)

I had to stop school to take care of our baby, in the setup of living with my in-laws. After two years and when the father of my child finally graduated college I went back to school, as a senior. Being a teenage mom was my deep dark secret back then since we decided not to tell anyone to prevent the expected discrimination. I was living in two different worlds for a year. I was a homemaker/teenage mom at home and my usual competitive senior self in school. After graduation I got accepted in UP for the course of my choice which was Theatre Arts, but on the other hand I was also offered a Tesda Scholarship for any two-year technical course. My priorities in life by then have changed, I pushed through with the scholarship and gave up my dream since all I wanted that time was to be able to graduate and land a job to support our child. But despite taking a course I never even imagined surviving, I had the most out of my college life, graduated with flying colors from both academic and co-curricular. :) I signed a job offer as a Technical/Customer Support Representative a month before graduation, I was 20 years old. Got married with the father of my child when I was 21, I became a Trainer when I was 24, and like you, I am 27. :)

We now live a simple yet, we can say, comfortable life. I have my own career while the man in my life for the past 12 years now, runs a car business with his family. We have our own home, drives our own car, and our 11yo daughter is now in 6th grade at a Catholic school near our place. The experience I had did not just teach me a lesson, it's life changing, literally and figuratively! (LOL) Life's good. Sometimes it's just all about our attitude towards it. Like what Charles R. Swindoll have written, "attitude is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it". I can absolutely attest to that. You are welcome to visit my blog/site to see for yourself. :)