Philippine Heroes
By ryu009gaijin
@ryu009gaijin (92)
Japan
June 26, 2011 9:28pm CST
Hi its been a while since i visit mylot.I've been working and studying day and night and i am pissed.WHY? For all Filipino's who work overseas we all experience good things,we eat delicious foods, travel and have fun because we are rich because we work overseas. That's what they think, they thought, they expect. But they don't know how we earn that money, the bad experience, the discrimination.
My parents suppose to take care of me but instead they work overseas, to support me. My aunt took care of me until i 12 and then for some reasons i need to live alone, all by my self with the help of my parents sending money from japan. When i receive a call from my parents i always ask for money money money and money, i thought life here in japan is better, easier.I get angry when my allowance is delayed, i thought im unlucky guy. Until i need to face my life here in japan.
Now i know. The trials, discrimination. I cant express my full feelings in English but to shorten this, to all son/daughter,family who receive money from their love ones who work overseas you're lucky. Yes YOU ARE!
You wont understand this until you experience living overseas, working overseas. You need to treasure all the money that you received. The homesickness we experience, honestly you cant run from it, all we can do is look at the picture, pray and cry.
luckily now a days we have internet, even video chat.
Im really pissed, why all Filipino's who work overseas need to experience such harsh thing. Yes we earn Dollars/YEN (Lapad) but dont forget we spend Dollars/Yen too. Now i know that i was lucky to have a parents who sacrifice everything just to give me a good future.Love them more today and forever cuz we dont know, life is short.
Im sorry for the wrong grammar or spelling just focus on the meaning, haha.
Even though im not a 100% OFW but still im a Filipino who live overseas.
To all OFW(Overseas Filipino Worker) i salute you, we all do. God bless and Good luck to all of us and to our love ones.
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10 responses
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
Your parents must be so proud of you. Despite having to sacrifice , not being with them as you grow, you still managed to understand their plight and love them. Keep it up and don't lose that love for your parents in you. Have it in your mind always, that they are doing the great sacrifice, just so , that someday you will all be together in a very much comfortable life.
Hurray, to your parents and to all OFWs. They really are our modern day heroes!
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@ryu009gaijin (92)
• Japan
2 Jul 11
i love them and i tried to understand. i love them as we all do love our parents, but still there are a lot of misunderstanding cuz im not used to live with them. i love them and i respect them but its better for me to live alone.maybe some of you will think im a bad son bad its just the way it suppose to be.not living with your parents does not mean you dont love them any more. take care!
@AgentGulaman (3546)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
Yep! The loved ones of those OFW's are surely lucky. My father is also an OFW and he's in one of the most conservative countries to be one, Saudi Arabia. It also is hard for us in here to be away with our father but yes, it is much harder for him to be away from us. Luckily, he get to have a vacation in here during the Christmas holidays. I really look up to my dad because I know it really is hard to feel homesick in there. Like you ryu009gaijin, I salute all the Filipinos overseas who are working very hard to help and sustain their families. I do wish you well in there and same goes to all OFW's in there and around the world!
@whitewingspeak (888)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
You are right in every word AgentGulaman! The sacrifices each of every OFW in the Philippines is a big help to the country. I hope that the government and the politicians see that! I hope politicians will do their part to make laws that OFWs and the family will benefit.
@whitewingspeak (888)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
The OFWs now are the new heroes in our country, the Philippines. Not just that they are being supportive financially to their families and loved ones, but also the uplift in our economy by sending the Phiippines bulks of DOLLARS! I salute, too, to all the OFWs on the world!
@AgentGulaman (3546)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
Yep! I forgot to mention that! The hard earned money the OFW's make is a great boost to the Philippine economy. Most of our countries Gross National Product (please correct me if I'm wrong here) is due to the remittances from the hardworking Pinoys all over the globe. I hope all those supported by OFW's will be able to appreciate and achieve great results so that those sacrifices that the OFW's make will not lead to waste.
@chuyins123 (2112)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
Hello Ryu,
I salute you for recognizing the effort of your parents and for taking time to post this here. I haven't experienced overseas, but I have been helping our family to survive. I am working in a far city away from my province, it feels like I am working overseas, minus the discrimination because I am still in the Philippines.
I for one salute our OFWs. I don't have the slightest idea how it was like, but I have experienced growing up without a dad because he's working abroad. It's hard, but he endured it just for us to survive. And now I realize, how hard it is to be away from your family and you just can't go home because you need to work. You need to earn.
Mabuhay (Long Live) the OFWs!!!
Bless you.
chuyins
@chuyins123 (2112)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
Yes, every where we go there is discrimination. Well, I quite sorted things out for me, and have worked out just fine in here. I came from Mindanao (Bisaya) dialect and they used to tease me with the tongue and accent, but I guess now, I've got the hang out of it. And I speak just like those tagalogs in here. I don't get bullied no more. God bless you too bro! 
@ryu009gaijin (92)
• Japan
2 Jul 11
Youre not in overseas but your situation is the same, living far away from your parents. dont minus the discrimination cuz where ever we go there is discrimination, comparing poor to rich people something like that.Its just less discrimination cuz youre working in your own country. God bless and good luck bro!
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@marapplestiffy (2182)
• Philippines
28 Jul 14
Sad but true, I used to feel the same way about my father. He is a seaman and I expected him to give me all the material things I wanted. I have never been that far away from my family, I never worked abroad but by simply being able to work and having matured I have realized the hardships OFW's endure just to make sure their families are well taken care off... I just hope that like us, children of not only OFW's but all children, would be able to appreciate the sacrifices their parents make.
@igatiful_badass (1222)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
Hello ryu009gaijin!
I admire you being an OFW.
I know how it feels to be away from family, and friends.
Though i am not an OFW but your feeling and emotions i understand it. I have so many friends who are also OFW. Some express their feelings coz some family never value what they give it to them. Some though value it but only for the sake of money.
You and your fellow OFW's are real hero in the Philippines.
My sympathy are in you.
God Bless and Take care.
@ryu009gaijin (92)
• Japan
2 Jul 11
i know that feelings of your friends and the family of your friends in phil. Me too, when i was in phil i thought working abroad is a lot easier than working in the phil. I thought when i go abroad i can buy all the things that i want and i can give them all the things they want but it turn to be a NO. They should look the value, not the value of the money but the value how to earn that money. thank you for your support!God bless
@whitewingspeak (888)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
I admire you for having such thought being a very young man. Some 20's don't think about this way. You have a unique character that everyone will admire, your Aunt and your Mom must be proud of you being such a good boy.
Your experience taught you to be strong at a young age, and that it broadened your mind about how life is gonna be, like working far to support the family. I know all the sacrifices you encountered when you were very young will give benefit you, it made you stronger and mature. Good luck in your life, and love your Aunt and Mom, for all your know, all their sacrifices are just for you. Take care.
@ryu009gaijin (92)
• Japan
27 Jun 11
Thank you, but im not a good boy really. ^_^ im trying to be, Changing my thoughts for good, planning my life, learning from my mistakes and that day started when i experience this myself.
some 20's now a days dont even think of this things, but i grew up alone maybe it has something to do with that. Doing things your own way, solving problems your own way.
by the way thank you.
@whitewingspeak (888)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
Whether you like it or not, i'm gonna call you a good boy because that is how your tone when you speak here in mylot. Maybe part of you is not good, but i believe most of your character is admirable. Its ok to be bad sometimes, heheh, just don't overdo the bad thing in you and don't let it dictate your personality, because it is better to be good than bad!
@axlrate7 (1398)
• Philippines
1 Jul 11
You created a great discussion, I don't mind if there's a wrong grammar, you did great job in expressing it here about the sacrifices of our fellow Filipino workers. I've got teary eyes reading the content of your discussion, showing how hard to live in other country separated from love ones in the Philippines. I too have a father that working before from other country, and I didn't think before how hard was he experienced there, I just spend all the money that he gave me to all unnecessary things plus I didn't study well. I just figured out things when my father got home with no money. I didn't continue my study on that time, and then things now are become more very clear to me, I become matured and know now the difficulties of life and sacrifices of my parents to give us a life that they wanted for me. God is good for making me see the truth about life. =)
@RBBantiles (347)
• Philippines
27 Jun 11
I salute you and all OFWs and their families in the Philippines!
When shall the time come when working abroad will be a career choice, an opportunity to see new horizons and to broaden knowledge, skills and experiences, rather than a family survival strategy? It is really up to the OFWs to answer this question. The present national leadership is happy enough with the present set-up of exporting labor despite the trauma this policy causes on the families left behind.
@luvequinox (22)
• South Africa
27 Jun 11
I feel for U but hope things get reeally better soon for U and all the OWF.
@nunezme (43)
•
20 Jul 11
The OFW's are the true Filipino Heroes just like Dr. Jose Rizal who also have traveled abroad to earn a living and be educated at the same time. The history book must be re-written to include the OFW's and remove Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo who has really done nothing good for the country but butchered Andres Bonifacio and his brother so he could put himself in the limelight in the history. All Filipinos here and abroad should always remember that, it was Andres Bonifacio who is the true leader of the Katipuneros, whose group has fought for our freedom.
