The Untold Saga of His Childhood Life, Dreams, and Passions.

By: dodong

Carlos Gomez was born in an Aries zodiac sign, normal and grew up as an aggressive teen age child who lived in rustic area whose parents were farmers, loved fishing in the mountain river, used to play his neighborhood peers, hide and seek, shooting and catching birds. At weekends his father loved to go hunting wild pigs and wild chicken in the forest with him using long rifle cal. 22.

 He said they had a prey with a wild boar; they could not carry together the prey for 50 meters more because it’s too heavy and he was young and helpless in that situation from the middle of the jungle. Realizing the predicaments, his father left the dead wild boar, put some live bullets at the top of the prey, (until now he didn’t understand what does it signify the putting of live bullets on the prey) and accompany him get out the forest and instructed him to inform and fetch his grandpa and his uncles to help his father carry the prey from the middle of the jungle.

He has nine siblings in the family with one brother as the seventh sibling with eight sisters. So he grew up with his sisters at his side as helpers to their parents, make copra and meet some of their daily family chores. Being the only male as aid to the family often left him the burden especially that his father got a lingering and recurring illness for the period of 2 years.  He had to quit schooling for the same period to do the farming.

Further as he told, life of farmers in the place where he was raised had been really that hard. It was very difficult to just depend on the farm produce in the year round. They experienced a situation so mired in poverty with no sufficient food for the family, no budget for health of the family members and practically nothing for their education. At young age he learned to dream a better life and help his family in that dire need to uplift their economic conditions.The hardships that befall upon him when he toiled the farm made him aspire for better education. His father taught him that hardship is overcome by realizing that it is part of the suffering and sacrifices in life, and sacrificing one's personal convenience to attain the personal well-being is the by-product of patience and perseverance, the ingredients of success. It gave him a good perspective in life, the test of deprivation on his teenage life to be present with any activities in school during weekends and some extracurricular outings, as his presence was badly needed by his family made his life tough that pushed him harder to dream and pursue for a bright future, to finish his studies come hell or high water. So when he enrolled in college, three of them siblings find their ways to support themselves as working students. He finished his Bachelor of Science in Commerce, major in Management, at St. Paul University, Surigao City. He completed (WILL) Workers Institute on Labor Law at UP School of Labor And Industrial Relation, Diliman, Quezon City.

He had his teenage crush in high school. He developed inferiority complex when his love crash rejected him and in the process he became shy for a long while and very frustrated. He first composed his love letter inside the church. He wrote and sent more letters, but he just received bunch of unanswered returned letters. In the church, deep inside his heart was crying and he was hurt, the feeling and humiliation that he felt were so mentally painful, heavy and that he even thought his soul was in agony. The perceived failure taught him a lesson not to be serious with women, this was deemed his challenge to study harder and tried to be smart and promised not to be outdone by the women. He struggled, worked hard and successfully overcome his being timid. His passion then with women was a little bit distorted. He had the temerity to court girls who were even friends. Then he found out his classmate friend in high school was charming. He realized he fall in love again. He had an intense feeling of this girl more than the other girls. She inspired him in his studies when they two of them were on steady. But he couldn't give much time with her because he had other commitments. Unfortunately, their decision not to make public their relationship and only pretend they were just friends did not set well for it only did favor him to continue befriending with other girls without inhibition. Their pretenses proved disastrous and not helping on their relationship to prosper. Untimely, nevertheless he learned his mistakes.

In reality, he is religious, a doer more than a talker, merciful, loving and caring one. He loves music though he didn’t have a good quality of voice, he is a musician in his own right. He just mimicked the songs. He loves beautiful women. He said their intelligence makes them beautiful.

One time during college break, his male friends with their girlfriends were having beach outings. He met a lady whom their friends were secretly proposing them to have a blind date. At hindsight, his perception of all  the girls was changed. It finally dawned on him that a person either he or she is capable of loving and ought to be loved and respected. He has totally changed in ways he never imagined. He met his destiny, that lady became the sister of his sister in-law. Next is history.

Bon Voyage!

A Journey in Life

                                    

 By: dodong

     A friend traveler offers his words of wisdom, a tip which could be worth enlightening to you and me who wish to resume our continuing journey in life. 

     As in any sojourn, he said; first know the direction and destination.  Never hesitate to make a first step for “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Assume imperfection in our moves because human frailty comes in times when we do not expect it. A successful life is never an accident, it’s a result of good decisions, sacrifices, guts, risks and allowing God to live and reign in our hearts and minds. Learn and feel contentment in our hearts as we proceed no matter what our status would be, just know how to appreciate the blessings we receive from above. If we stumble, commit unpopular decisions which lead to humiliations displeasing the society, we have to acknowledge our weaknesses and show remorse, the hurt may be less if we start coping the situation and go on with the new life than having a life under the cover of so many pretensions. The important thing, he said, we take responsibility of what we’ve done. The inevitable pain we realized is part of our growing that should not deter our desire to move on.  So we must now translate the hard lessons into wisdom and allow the learning to guide us as we go on into the next step of the journey.

       Reassess where we faltered, and the desired destination must be re-clarified. It is necessary to know the things to be improved and take a new route if needed, and know if we have enough energy to proceed.  It’s a long way for sure there will be perils that line in our path and no matter how astute we are, some events not to our liking it’s going to happen beyond our control.  But we should be ready to face them, knowing that the guidance and wisdom of those who traveled ahead of us remain a faithful beacon in any tumult that our journey shall face.

        For the couple you should be firmed towards the consolidation of your strengths, the refocusing of your collective purpose, and the enhancement of your shared resolve to support the plans of achieving your aspirations. 

        In life many things happen unexpectedly. So we must be prepared, as to where and when our journey ends, it will surely come when we are all out of time, not in harmony with other matters, or simply put it we have no more time. No matter how we plan and arrange our lives in order, it's still God's plan that prevails in the end. Good luck!