Dreamer, that's usually the adjective that comes before her name.
She is relentless when others try to devalue her thoughts and aspirations in life.
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Dee's perception growing up about her passion for achieving her goals in life will always be a straightforward whim. Come what others say, she will remain the woman who will have to do everything she can to attain her desired endpoint.
She remembers, clearly, one afternoon during her senior high school days. A man in his fifties, whom he knew back home, stood behind her back and looked at her career paper.
"There are really ambitious people out here, don't they? They come from a destitute family with their parents as OFWs and tricycle drivers, and they still want to become a Doctor in the future? Such a big dream they have."
Dee snickered with the thought, and yes, her fragile heart was touched, and an inevitable tear clouded her eyes.
The teacher knew very well that Dee came from not a well-off family. The family would have sacrificed a lot for her. It takes her mother to leave her home country and become someone's nanny in a foreign land to provide her the privilege of reading and studying at a prestigious school. Comes this man, who only knew simple facts about her family and used them in his class to demotivate her.
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A thought came rushing.
Even if she is an insect with tiny wings, she will never bite off people and feed on their blood to survive. She can still be an insect but feels like a butterfly, living off a colorful life even for a short span.
There came graduation that Summer and her parents would be so proud of her. Dee graduated in her Senior High School with a medal and even threw a small party in their neighborhood, and of course, her teacher was invited, knowing her father was all friendly in their place.
The teacher came and became friendly with her Mom, who had just arrived from the foreign land she had worked for almost 14 years- leaving her behind and her father to give them a good life.
The teacher stated, " Oh, good, Dee! Such a wonderful child and is an intelligent one. She writes with depth and presents herself with grace. A good child, kind, and always been the beautiful her."
Dee's Mom smiled. Feeling proud of her daughter for being a good student as always and somewhat hurt, for she had heard the story of his statements in class just months before the graduation.
Dee smiled too but took it to herself positively. She will not let people again discriminate against the things she worked for, and she started writing, pursuing, and even attending one of the most prestigious universities in the country, taking her bachelor's degree.
As time passed, she found herself dwelling with people- intelligent as they could be. They are talented and funny, and despite their differences, they embrace each other's flaws and take their journey hand-in-hand seriously while enjoying the time of their life.
In her quest to achieve her dreams, people still came to tell Dee that she needed to do more. Though, for the longest run, she knew she gave her best in her actions.
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"Ate," her little cousins approached her.
"Yes?" a small giggle came out of her mouth as the little ones continuously eyed her with disbelief.
"Don't you agree that College is indeed hard? You look so chill and stressed-free, having the luxury to go home here in our province as if you have no worry way back in the City." The declarative statements of her younger cousins draw a genuine smile that escaped her lips.
Growing up, not all people believed that she could make a difference. Most of their relatives would cage her with the thought that she could go not go anywhere but stay at home. She could be the next domestic helper in their kin and not become a doctor or anyone near the medical field- for it takes courage, intelligence, and money to take her there.
Dee then makes a fiction with reality as her based story. She raised her voice first through writing and left those writings at home or given out. Papers that contain her letters growing up to inspire her cousins to write what they think too, gradually increase their passion for writing, and even say their aspirations out loud.
She paved the way, saying that she would not take Education as a program, not as a rebellious act, but to give strength to her little cousins so they could choose what they want in the future.
Years had taken over, and she then had graduated from everything. Her little cousins grew up so fine that they became unbothered dreamers like her.
Dee may not know if it was her writings or her stories when they were younger that made them pursue what they wanted, but one thing she knew for sure. She broke the stigma in her kin that they can dream big even though they are financially incapable.
She doesn't want her cousins to grow well-clothed with old news that they can just be mothers and wives of their husbands in the future. They, too, could be known not as just silent dreamers but achievers known in their field.
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