The Need To Fight...
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
Philippines
October 19, 2011 7:17am CST
I have been feeling so down and lonely last month.
What kept me going?
Oh no, I am very sure that it is not that energizer battery as they are advertized.
I need to keep fighting for that space I am occupying on this earth for my children, for my mom and for everyone whom I hold dear.
I know that, my children are all grown ups by now but, they will still need to have a mom who lives on. Just as I still need to know that my mother still survives to this day. She still inspires me. Just the thought that she will still be around when I come home and pay a visit to my hometown, invigorates and instills a feeling of happiness in me. So I am well aware that my children will always be happy to have me.
How about you? Do you have a good reason to keep on fighting and winning your battles in life?
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6 responses
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
19 Oct 11
If I read your story it doesn't sound to me as if you have a good reason to keep on fighting. You feel down and lonely.
You never ask yourself how that can be possible if you still have your mother and children?
I think you forgot to build a life for yourself.
You did nothing for yourself. You just tell yourself (and fool yourself) your kids still need their mom and you still need yours.
I think it's time to let your kids go, build their lives and for you to build at last a life of your own. If anyone really needs you they will find you.
It's time to do things you like, to make yourself happy with small things or bigger things. Easy goals or harder goals to fight for. Make your horizon bigger because otherwise sooner or later you will wake up and discover that although you think you are the centre of other peoples life you are all alone and you wasted your life with the idea someone might need you sooner or later.
You make a battle out of your life even if there is no reason for it at all.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
19 Oct 11
You are making me think. However, I can never be that guilty. It so happens that my life will have to be devoted to taking care of my youngest son. He is so very sick, he is afflicted with bone marrow cancer. A condition which is so difficult to secure for him a total cure.
I am a licensed civil engineer in my country. But, I was forced to stop taking contracts for various projects and I had to leave a good job with the government's planning arm in order to take care of him.
At times, I cannot help it to feel so low. Not because of my son because, i have the full of his elder sister and elder brother. It used to be their father because, he had wandered off from the fold of the family.
I managed to win my battle though. I will let go of him for good next time that I meet him in court. I hope...
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
19 Oct 11
I still have very young children that I have to provide for friend especially their education and good quality of life in this poor country plus a 79 year old mother that I love so dearly and like my kids we have to provide the best, so me and my wife cannot stop working, just the thought of that will spring as both to action even if I'm very tired sometimes
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
19 Oct 11
Hello, louie. Your family is the main reason why you will never give up on life. For most of us, this is so very true. All because, they are also the reasons for our endless joys and strength.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
19 Oct 11
Yes. I do have a good reason also to keep on fighting. My daughter just had a baby and I need to be here to watch her grow up.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
20 Oct 11
Hi trini, oh yes, I've been very fortunate to still have my mother around and she never fail to inspire me with her words of wisdom. I wish children today appreciate our presence in their life as long as we are still around them and not discard us like old worn out furniture no longer useful in their life.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
19 Oct 11
Same like you are, I also have my kids.
And yes, my kids are young teens and considered grown up,but still I don't want to leave them.
I don't want to trust them to anybody.
I am tempted to work abroad too, but I am thinking about my kids.
No one in my family will take care of them since all my siblings also has their kids and smaller than my kids who needs more care and attention.
have a good day 
@clearwater18 (695)
• Philippines
20 Oct 11
All of us I believe always has a reason to live. As for me, it's my family. They are the reason that I'm alive. The reason that keeps me going and fighting problems in life.
