Reinalaine

Philippines is a country that lies very deep in its own culture and traditions. Approaches in building resilience for this country would be quite unique and uncharted. Efforts in the building of the real infrastructure and natural disaster preparation measures must go hand in hand with human-centered approaches to build a stronger, more resilient nation. As we have seen a few days ago, it was a typhoon, and many people have struggled to overcome this tribulation in accordance with the fact that we are incapable of controlling the weather. I, a student, have seen my parents worried faces; the frown in their faces is still concise, and it has been planted deep within my mind. They were struggling, and it almost became a crying misty view to me, because for sure, I couldn't do anything to help them. It is at this point when I think I was wrong. I realized my parents are stronger than this; they go beyond their comfort zone just to provide for  us, and now that they need a shoulder to

Reinalaine's staring at her reflection P.O.V-   The mirror reflected a stranger. And you, Reinalaine, felt the weight of expectations. Because you were good in school, everyone knows that. You are Reinalaine Bernardino, the girl who always aced her exams, the one who never faltered or failed. But was there more to who you were than the grades? The accolades? The labels? An inner voice whispered, "Something's not L right," a small crack in the impeccably constructed facade of your life. Constantly resounding as a low vibration between who you are and how everyone else expected you to be, it left you yearning to break away from the mold, to shed the skin of expectations and into the unknown. Life's roller coaster, with its joys thrilling and its griefs devastating, had reflected the turmoil that to my mind you were experiencing. Here, too, when you so triumphantly won the victory in the national spelling bee-the triumph of years of hard toil-it seemed to lift you