Good day hivers!!!!

When did you realize that your are poor?This topic was been trending on social media.I saw a lot of videos sharing thier stories about it.Honestly ,some of it was made me to cry as I really relate the struggles they encountered in life.

So now ,since I don't have another topic to write so I will be sharing my story.

When did you realize that you are poor?

When we don't have enough food to eat.
My parents are both farmer ,a lot of times we experienced this problem.We are 9 children in our family and it's hard for my parents to sustain our needs especially for the food.

Even they are a farmer ,expected that they a rice field or vegetable garden but a lot of times we faced this struggle.Mostly ,my father works in a rice field not owned by him.I remember when I was a kid my mom borrowed 1 can of rice from our neighbor coz we don't have something for our meal.To make that 1 can of rice enough for us ,mom makes that 1 can of rice a porridge.

There were many times that instead of rice for our meals ,we had sweet potato,banana,corn or cassava in our table And that time ,as a kid I and my siblings are complaining but my parents keep reminding us that we must be thankful that we had something on our table.

There was a time ,a rainy seasons in our place in which my father can't work we always had banana in our table and it came to the point that naubos lahat ng saging.
I remember my younger siblings are cried because of hunger ,so my father harvested a young banana and cooked it for our dinner,and that banana variety is not for cooking,I think it's a saging tundan.

When my parents have money ,they prioritize our food ,so instead of buying fish or meat they always bought dried fish and bagoong para matagal maubos.

There was a time I and my siblings are fighting for the instant noodles coz my brother got more than us,so my mother cooked it again and add more water so it makes enough for us.

I realized we are poor when my parents can't give some of our needs.
I go to school with no baon for snacks,I feel so happy if I had 1 peso for snacks but most of the time I don't have baon that's why I gathered some guava fruits and sell it to my classmates .

Anyway ,we are living in a mountainous area and we need to walk for almost 30 minutes going to school.We need to walked in a barefoot so that our slippers will last longer.
If ever it will broken ,we will fix it coz they can't buy it immediately,we need to wait for the coconut to harvest ,and that time they can buy our needs.

When I was in grade two I joined a poem contest without telling it to mom.I know they can't be there coz I had some younger siblings that needed to be attended and my father is working.
I feel sad and cried when I saw the other contestants wearing a nice clothes with shoes and sandals while me wearing a broken slippers and an old clothes.
But still I joined that contest and won the second place.

I was so happy when I recieved a ribbon ,a pack of biscuits and a 20pesos bill.

Because of being poor ,at the young age I learned to make money by selling guava fruits ,by making a tira-tira(candy )and by being a young nanny.

I am so happy everytime our neighbor asked me to take care of her two kids and got paid 50pesos a day that was in the year 1998-1999.

I realized that we are poor and that realization makes me to motivates to work hard for the family .Although I wasn't able to finish college but I did my best to help my parents and make them to have what they don't have before.

And now ,we are not rich already but I can say that our life is having a big difference from before,one thing I can say that it was different from before is those foods na laging nasa Mesa namin na halos maiya-iyak na kami kapag ganun Ang kinakain is now our cravings na.

I still feel blessed that we experienced that kind of thing as it it makes us to be more stronger in facing different difficulties in life.

We may a poor family but I am proud of my parents for raising us and never leave us ,we may poor but we are rich of love from our parents.

And that would be all for today ,how about your ,when did you realized that you are poor?