Life Lessons I Learned from My Parents

I have realized that we are 99.9 % distracted before the pandemic happened. Once it did, one thing that I have noticed in people is that they're scrambling for that "lost time" with their family or their parents. I also realize that the older I get, the more I get the WHYs of what my mom and dad did for us. They have always shown my siblings and I unconditional love and support in their own way throughout our lives. For this I am sincerely grateful. 

And if there's something good that I learned and am learning from my parents VS plauges, it's these:

 

• Time is always of importance.

My parents have always given us this mantra of it is better to invest in experiences and books rather than toys. It is better to spend time to strengthen the bond. Spending money comes after. Which is why our family bonding comes from travels to and from different parts of Luzon, different dinner dates and fast food dates at SLEX gas stations whenever we go to our second home in Batangas or in other places we can travel. 

I never understood the literal point of this, until the inevitable pandemic happened.

Time is of importance, and we should spend it wisely, with happy experiences we can look back to and share, forever.

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With the pandemic happening, I am happy that I have invested in time spent with my family before we got a compulsory vacation from the world. :)

• Work within your budget. Invest in your "emergency plan".

I noticed that my mom and dad are in to really nice, branded, and high quality jewelries- even if they don't wear it as much as you would think they should. They never did borrow money from friends, and they always had a budget for their credit card bills- paid on time either in full or in 3 month installments. 

As we got older, they never would have gotten my two sisters into a proper college without their budgeting and investing skills. The jewels are a great collateral especially when you need a quick buck for tuition money, and keeping the household budget afloat at the same time is a pretty great skill they have mastered. And passed down to us. 

Skills and education are things that my parents passed down to us as their sign of forever love. Because these things we keep forever- they can't be stolen unlike material stuff.

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