XXXIX. Optimism Help Me Survive

Ang sumunod na mga araw ay pahirap kay Trisha.  Everyday her patience was tested.  Daily, Chelsea reminds her of the past after her parents died, when she and her kuya lived at her uncle’s house.  Remembering  those times when she made her cousin’s report, brought her a bunch of books Chelsea annoyingly left at her locker, deliberately.  Always bidding her to buy snacks outside the campus while she was so busy doing research.  The feelings are coming back to her, the annoyance, the selfpity and even the thought how cruel the world was.  Her pride was wounded back then.  Her friends whom she thought were true, hurtfully joined Chelsea.  Pero kahit noon pa man, even when she asked God why did things get so hard for her, at the end of the day, she still have a ready smile for everyone. Believing that  whatever life threw at her she overcame with a smile… she was just thankful she and her brother had a roof over their head