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✿ perseverance ✿
✿ perseverance ✿
The day of taking the first ever long test since the pandemic started has come. I was very nervous at that time, given that it has been two straight years that school was on distance learning, so all of the assessments were done online.
Pressure. That was all I can feel while scanning through the test paper after it was given. I spoke in my head, "God please give me wisdom". I started answering, with shaky hands I finished writing my solutions for the two questions on the first page. Nervousness skyrocketing, I flipped the page and continued to the other questions. I kept on praying, I asked God to calm me so that I could remember the things that I reviewed. I fixed my eyes on question number 8, telling myself "This one. I can do this."
As I started writing my solution, I kept a message playing over and over again in my head. "You can do this Shan! Persevere." Shifting gazes between the cheat sheet and my writings, I did my best to obtain the correct values for the last step of the solution. However, the general solution of the equation was the final thing that I needed to provide. I took a moment to close my eyes, and imagined this handout or notes that I just wrote hours ago. It was here, I just needed to remember the spot where it was. It took me about a minute of thinking after I remembered what that missing thing was. Finally, I was able to finish off my answer for number 8 after writing the general solution as my final answer.
So, here was the thing. What if I stopped thinking after about 30 seconds? What if I opened my eyes before I imagined what the missing thing looked like? I would've never provided the general solution I needed to answer the problem correctly. I persevered, I didn't give up just because it took me a long time of concentration. God preserved me ♥ He is always by my side and all I needed to do is to call unto him. If I did not persevere, I would've not gotten 3 points for that number, and would have caused me to eventually fail my long test - I had a qualitative mark of C, just two points away from the passing score. So friends, I tell you, whenever you are in situations feeling hopeless, ✦ please persevere ✦ .
♥ Perseverance in the hardest of times ♥
As face-to-face classes slowly returned this year, my family is challenged financially. Before the school year started, with the pandemic still on and the new normal around, my mother had last-minute doubts about me going to ASHS for my senior high education. We are from Mindanao and imagining the cost to be able to live in Metro Manila worried her. I was ready to accept it, I didn't like her worried and problem - filled. But, right now I am here, all because we persevered. My family and I persevered.
I was able to enroll in the late enrollment period. When the ASHS announced that there will be face-to-face classes for the school year, my father did his best to provide me the plane ticket to Manila. My mother also contacted her sister for help. My parents and I worked so hard for me to be where I am right now. ♡
Currently, I stay here in my aunt's residence. My parents work hard to send me allowances and most times they'd tell me not to worry because they will do anything and everything for me ♡. They will never give up, they might take rest times, but the important thing is that they will always persevere ✿ and I will always do too.
❀ "God preserves us so that we could persevere" ❀
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