Looking back...
Life taught me a lot these past 11 years. Some lessons were easy. Some made me stronger. A few made me doubt myself. And a handful crumpled me in pain. But it was all worth it. You know, when I was younger, I thought life was simple, graduate, get a job, get married, raise kids, buy a house and a car and that’s it. I didn’t know there were battles in between. I didn’t know life could throw you so far off course that you’d question everything you once believed in. But I was raised not to back down from a fight. My father, a retired uniformed officer, taught us how to win battles and how to accept loss with dignity. Losing you, Pa, was the hardest battle of all. I miss you na. In these 11 years, I didn’t just lose a father. I walked away from the corporate world. I lost a friend. We faced setbacks in our business. I questioned my own strength more times than I’d like to admit. There were days I felt like I was just surviving, holding everything together for everyone else, while qui...
