31/07/2025
PART 2:
After I graduate high school, my dad gets sick. He has kidney failure and it’s really hard to cure it since the bacteria is spreading through his bloodstream. His 2 kidneys are no longer working just like normal people. My dad works in a well-known company in our place for 12 years, so the company decided to look for a family member to replace him. Since i’m 17 years old at that time and i’ll be turning 18 years old after a couple months. They decided to endorse me to an agency. I will be working temporarily in the company where my father is working. I’ve worked there as a janitor, and the company promised to my father that when I turn 18 years old, they will absorb me from the agency and start working directly for them, same as the job description of my father.
The reason why I worked there is for me to help my father's needs like medicines and what not. And there was a time when my father's illness got worse every time, and he needed to do the dialysis thing which is very expensive every session. In order to help the expenses every time we do the session for him, we promise the hospital to bring blood donors to extract blood and sell to them. In order to pay debts to every session for my father. Many of my friends and cousins in our place volunteer to give their blood as donations to pay our debts. Even me, I decided to extract a total of 8 bags of blood to donate to the hospital to lower our debts. Come to think of it, I'm still working at the same time to take care of my fathers struggle every night. But I didn't regret it. I was happy that he gave me an opportunity to help him as much as I can.
Until one day on the 27th of December, my father passed away. It’s almost New Year for the next year, and yet we're going to celebrate it with him in the coffin. So, our family decided his interment will be before the year ends. After that, we continue our life without him. And this time everything changed in my life when my mother treated me differently. I know I'm old enough to do what old people do, like drinking alcohol, smoking and what not. But my mom won’t agree with what I'm doing. What she wants me to do is to continue working for them. All my salary before goes to my dad, and now all my salary wants her to go to them. Isn’t it fair that I need to take care of myself too using the money that I work hard to get. Until I decided to stop working because money is the root of all this commotion that happened to our family when my father died.
-->> To be continue on my next post.
