PRIMARILY of the things that happened to my LIFE that I don’t PLAN nor DREAM of.

Like;
1. working abroad
After having a boyfriend who pursued a seaman course and having had to experience with my seaman cousin’s wife , I told myself , I will never marry someone who will work far from where I am. I can’t stand to see my daughter grow with a virtual dad.

But I ended up marrying someone who works abroad and that’s an irony of life because you cannot tell your heart whom to marry, it comes and there is no escape and no amount of reasoning can comprehend the irony. I took that leap and face the consequences.

And one of those is to settle in a country away from my comfort zone. I had to say, change is good. I did compromised my ideals but not the principle behind it. It my case, it was “everywhere Lord basta magkasama kami”. Every decision we made—was geared towards that end in mind. We will never be living separately from each other. I don’t say what is ideal to me is ideal to others- so I don’t mean to offend , we have separate journeys , different paths to take.

2. Financially fit
I don’t say I am rich. Or maybe I am–am richly blessed with the non-monetary terms in life of which I am forever grateful. It comes mostly with the people factor –my family, friends, my not so friends ( challenges i mean) and they made this life extra colorful.

In monetary terms, we have never been financially fit. I remembered back when Chuck and I are still starting, I had to pawn my precious necklace to Cebuana to survive the next payday. How tough was that. Our dates were spent on some mcdo counters for a P5 ice cream cones. I got so broke that my credit card bill was enormous. I only survived the minimum payment which made me even poorer. I refused to marry Chuck back then as I was indebted but he readily paid all my debts and I promised to pay him back, although he really didn’t bother—it is impt for him to marry me. But now, I think I can pay him back—-and he would give me his frowned face.
Hahhahah.

Now–credit card companies is unhappy of my payment behavior as I have been paying in full and they couldn’t charge me finance charges, interests, etc. I learned it the hard way and resolved to be debt free!

3. To be a PR of 2 countries!
Becoming a Permanent Resident of 2 countries is beyond my imagination. Although we are still not in the verge of giving up one, but just being is such a fortune minus the confusion of course. See, the reason why I was confused in the first place because I mix up my drive with my comfort zone until it gets un-pure. It boils down to wanting to be at one place as a family and both countries can satisfy that. But there seemed to be an audacious plan out there outlined for me and my family and if we don’t give it a try—I will never know. I am clear–I am not going to Australia to pursue money and the material stuffs. I will be there for the purpose the Lord is in store for me. And because it is unknown , I will be forever excited looking forward to it! You must be frowning now—am a risk taker.

But that’s me. I am yet to know Chuck and Chy’s thoughts over the matter—I will respect whatever it is.

But as for me, I am really ASTOUNDED but can’t afford to be wordless now as I am filled with THANKSGIVING!