Love and Let Live

"Love and Let Live" was the title of my article that the editors gave. I was having breakfast with mama, when my mother shouted out :" Shien, your article is out. Your article has been published."

At that exact moment, I was thinking like:" What the? Are you freaking kidding me?" And so it is true, the article I wrote one year ago when our teacher asked us to write about our family member, I proudly choose my mother to be the heroin of the story.

One year ago, when my work came back, I remember what my English teacher wrote in my exercise book. She wrote:" Are you sure you're not copying this essay from somewhere?" Whoa~~~

Not long after, the exact teacher asked me to see her, and she asked again if I had really wrote the essay myself. Ya, I did. The essay now has been published on the Stars newspaper today edition.

I really couldn't write anything that is fake or imaginary, that's why most of the time, my essays sucks big time at school. But this essay was a real story of my family condition.

True, I was being raised in a divorced family. But I don't think that that fact had made any changes in me.

I mean, I'm still me, the only things that had change was my perspective towards life. I had not have an easy life when I was younger. Me and my older brother stayed with my mother while my father moved out. And my mother was constantly working late to feed the both of us. That's why me and my older brother had such a strong bond because we're constantly together.

When I was 11, life changes a little bit. The three of us are finally on the steps of enjoying luxury goods. Until now, all that I've been having and enjoying are through my mother hard worked harvest.

Love is never a feeling. Love is an ABILITY. Use that ability to get through all the life's obstacle. There will be constant battle that we need to fight through out our life, but know that you're always self-worth and that you can do it.

God wouldn't put Dreams in you, if He didn't put in the necessary Determination, Talent and Will.

No matter how far you go, there will be someone following you called Family and True Friends.

Life's full of lesson, enjoy learning. And sooner or later you'll find a deeper understanding of what you really want with life.

One and Only: ShieN