When I was a little girl, one of my biggest dreams and goal was to buy my father a car. He had several vehicles but all jeepneys. He could afford one if he just pursued it but it wasn’t his priority. And for some reason, my parents looked at owning a car as being extravagant. When they found one’s expense as unnecessary, they would say “magarbo” which, based on their own perception, was synonymous to being spendrift. Maybe this was the main reason why my father never bought a car for himself. And of course, our tuition fees were his topmost priority.
When I talk about achievements, I cannot think of something big that I can brag about.
As a little girl, I had dreams that seemed so unreachable. Even my classmates, friends, neighbors and their parents laughed at me and looked at me like crazy.
One of my little girl wishes that I was able to accomplish was buying my father a car, with the help of my Kuya Lito.
That was probably one of my achievements in life. It’s not actually about the car. it was more like, I made my father happy. I made him cry 3 x too. Tears of joy syempre.
Maybe my prayers when I was a little girl was so intense that not only did I get to give my father his first, second, 3rd (and last car), I am now surrounded with cars. Cars here, there and everywhere. Siguro sabi ng heaven, “hingi ka ng hingi ng kotse for your Papa, hintay ka lang paglaki mo bibigyan kita ng maraming kotse”.
I am sure thousands little girls also had the same dream as mine. I am sure that many have been given that same blessings too- To fulfill their wishes for their father. Praise God.
Your Papa would have been proud!
thank you