#2

It's All About the Real Me 

          I was totally called human when I started to exist in this world and it was on the 7^th day of February year 1995, the day when I was born. I am the third of the six children of Edwin Jumawan Tayros and Aida Gaid Tayros. 

My favorite pastime is watching television. I am not a studious type person and I think I will become one just because I am a college student now. I love playing volleyball. I have been playing this sport since my first year in high school but it was on my junior year that I realized that playing volleyball became my passion. I also love playing Ultimate Frisbee. I learned not only how to play but I also learned to make new friends and to make new teams after joining this kind of sports.

Others may say that I am a strict person but I guess I am not. Others also say that I am a silent person but honestly, I talk and laugh too much. But I guess I can describe myself with just only one word-simple. I don’t care if others judge me. I don’t care on what others might think and say about me. If they judge me, then go. I hope they can justify their opinions about me because for me, whatever I do and say reflects who really I am and one thing I am sure of is that I will never change for them. 

In my early years, I had been a silent and shameful type of person who wanted to be alone. However, everything changes when I got my new circle of friends, whom I called best friends. My best friends are Jamedah, Suai, Sittie Ayman, Mary Grace and Kyla. I really do love my best friends despite our differences in religion, our cultures and traditions, our likes and dislikes and most especially our personalities and attitudes. We are six in the group and we called ourselves BAMPYS which stands for Boys, Anime, Manga, Parties, Yema and Sports. I am so grateful to have them not just because they are my best friends but also they are my sisters, comforters and advisers. They were with me during my ups and downs and me with them during theirs. Unfortunately, we were separated during college and I know for the fact that each one of us will have new companions. It might be sad but we’ll take it positively and at this point, what matters most is on how far and how united we are to keep our bond and our friendship stronger.

I was not born in a well-off family yet I am raised very well by my parents. My family is poor and in fact my father is a maintenance personnel in La Salle Academy and my mother’s a housekeeper. Obviously, my father works to feed eight mouths. However, it was still a blessing for me that my father works at La Salle Academy because I studied there since kindergarten until high school. I studied in La Salle in twelve years being a scholar student.

Most of the people say that Lasallians are rich for the fact that LSA has a high tuition fee but it’s not true for me and for some. I have studied there for twelve years and within these years, every day is a struggling day. My family had a lot of problems most especially on what to eat this day and what about tomorrow? How can we buy this and that if we had only little money or if we have no money at all? Luckily with the guidance of God, my family was able to surpass those problems. I am also blessed that my classmates and friends and even my teachers and my mentors understand the situation of my family and that they were able to help and support me. 

Honestly, my father is my inspiration. He is the source of my courage and strength to face each day of my life. There were times that I saw my father working around the campus and all I can feel is how proud I am to have him as my father. All my achievements in life, I offer them to my father. I strived and studied hard to repay his love and sacrifices for us. I am so happy that I achieved a lot because I have him, my beloved father. I belonged to the top ten of our graduating batch in elementary, I joined the volleyball team for girls in high school, I became a sports writer and editor-in-chief in our campus newsletter, I joined some on and off campus competitions and luckily won, and I graduated third honorable mention in high school. Lastly, I was so blessed and thankful that I passed the DOST Scholarship. Behind these achievements are a million thanks to the person I loved the most, my father. With his presence in my life, I will still be continuing to aim high like an eagle ready to surpass the strong winds, the obstacles in life.

Being here in college is really a big challenge for me and for others as well. Being here in a new environment is too hard yet I want to prove myself that whatever happens, I want to stand on my own feet and face the struggles of my everyday life. I know that a lot of hindrances, obstacles and problems will come but I know for the fact that God is with me and nothing will be impossible with Him and the least thing I can do is to work hard and to be true to myself.