BOW WITHOUT AN ARROW
From the beautiful town of Cian, there is a girl named Aivs who’s happily living with her loving and caring parents. She grown up like a princess in a way that her mother is always waking her up through a song while leading her in the table full of foods cooked by her father. She never felt rejected and neglected because in the family, she’s the apple of her parents’ eyes. She became the favorite because she’s always on the top regarding academics and she never failed to make her parents proud. That’s why her parents had a lot of dreams for her for they believe that Aivs will be successful someday because of her potentials. But there’s this day when Aivs’ father died because of goiter. Her being princess became being slave. A slave in their own family. She do all the household chores such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, even while studying. Her mother? She became Aivs’ nightmare because her mother full of dreams for her became a mother full of sadness and longings for a husband. She was so depressed to forget her responsibility as the light of the family. From that moment, Aivs treat herself as a bow. She became a bow without an arrow. She started to feel incomplete. That “one day” when her father died was the day her life became miserable. People thought that she only lose her father but little they do not know that she lose both. Her mother was still alive but she do not feel her anymore. Aivs thought that that “one day” was her greatest nightmare but there’s this unexpected day when she almost lose her life, and that’s when her mother, also died.
Through all the longings, challenges and grief that she’d faced, she started to lose her life. She continued being a bow without an arrow. She lived without a purpose. She continue her life without any target or any goals. She’s not the ambitious type of daughter full of dreams anymore. She forget all her targets. She just live like going with the flow. Until one day, she heard someone said “Study in CvSU-CCC and continue your dream of becoming a teacher”. As of today, Aivs is now in her third year in college, taking up Bachelor in Secondary Education- Major in English, dreaming and claiming that someday, she will stand in front of her students not just to teach them but also help them to be the better version of themselves for she believes that her students are sometimes experiencing being a bow because of the challenges of life, but Aivs, herself, wants to be the compass (guide) of those students in finding their arrows (inspiration) to reach their targets (goals).
Before I’ll end, I want to introduce myself, I am Via, the Aivs in the story, from the beautiful town in Naic (Cian in story) who was once a bow that finds her arrow and now aiming and targeting her goals.
A strong-willed woman who aims to strengthen individuals' hearts by sharing her thoughts and writings.
A passionate Christian who motivates and inspires people.
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