A Soldier of Fortune

Who I am? What I am now? Who I am now? By the way let me introduce myself first. My name is Marjorie Condino, sounds like Marjery. I am a young native of Nagcarlan, also known as Nagcarleña from Laguna. I grew up well disciplined by my dearly loved parents and influenced of my relatives. I am the third child of five children of my parents and I can called it as a blessing. Compared to other family, my parents isn't that religious one but they had make sure that we can studied in a Catholic school. Even though we're not from a religious one, I can say that my faith can't be measured on one angle to diferent angle of life.

When I was 5 years old, all I know is to play and don't mind the future even though it was my first step into school to study. As I remembered, I'm too lazy to go school at that time and I am only walking to one direction. At the age of eleven, this comes the maturity overhead the age because I used to become serious and look for a different aspect of life. I successfully graduated elementary school on March 2012.

My secondary life specifically my Junior highschool life seems to be tedious. It was full of trials and sufferings. I began thinking a lot of problems which a teenager like me shouldn’t have to. I've got into troubles. I had a lot of family problems. So many severe circumstances that I try to avoid and escape but I just can’t, I feel that the world itself wants me to suffer. This results of how I've started to write some reflective journals, diary, events or things that was happened to me at certainly experienced. Four years of experiencing tedious life when I am in junior highschool at St. Mary's Academy of Nagcarlan because I am not good one to socialized with other people. And that I am considered myself as a boring person until I had moving up and took the next step, the Senior Highschool.

“It doesn’t really matter how many times you get knocked down it only matter’s how many times you get up again”. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving well-preserved, but to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, and still screaming. Everything has changed when I am in Senior Highschool which present at Liceo de San Pablo. There are so many challenges yet full of survival. After some of those realization I decided to change my life. It wasn’t a choice. It’ a decision. But it was on a slow process. I believed that everything happens for a reason. Instead of turning my life into more miserable, I used defeats and difficulties as an inspiration. I can do more than this. Life must goes on. After then I found myself something to motivates me to get up and get moving. I wake up one day, holding my ballpoint pen again finding a piece of paper where I can write something. And it begun to found myself to be one of the journalists someday.

I am presently studying now and graduating highschooler at my current school, Liceo de San Pablo. I found myself from far direction until it pushed me to choose what is the right path. Life will really goes up and down. It only stop’s when you’re dead.