Literary (Submission): My Life, My Freedom

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My Life, My Freedom

I am Juan Dela Cruz. I wanted to go to school and study hard, play computer games and go partying, [Have some fun naman, if no, di na kita friend. >:(] graduate with honors [I am sorry, but it is your fault you failed to comply with my outrageous and irrelevant demands and expectations.], go to college and get a diploma [Due to the state of things, you will have to settle for a lower quality university, and you will have to go through the eye of a needle to get accepted.] , get a job as a doctor. [My children will be successful doctors like me.] [We do need more doctors], start a family [Lol, I think mas cool if you put this before the graduate part, dejk lang.] [Don’t you dare, I hear a single whisper about something like this, there will be consequences!] [We concur, we will shun you if you do so.].

High School

In my youth, I regularly irregularly [Those “unexcused absences” say otherwise.] attended classes in a fairly decent high school [Mej debatable pero sige.]. I barely studied diligently and eventually miraculously [The class was not that difficult, you were just lazy.] graduated [No awards? How can I call you my child when I was class valedictorian, and you did not even graduate with honors!].

College

I applied and took BS Biology because it was the best course to take with my career goal in mind my parents made me do so. I relented because it would give me an opportunity to get away from them. I wanted to get my life together and academically perform better now that I was in college, so I distanced myself from bad influences isolated myself from friends [Dude. it was just one party, come on, nothing bad happened. Tell you what, I'll introduce you to some “friends” I know you’d like]. College life was not as easy as I hoped it would be, the stress got to me I got lazy and I tried to find comfort in friends bad company. We studied together and were there for each other We hit bar after bar, and did several morally and legally questionable things. Good thing I was careful, my friends were not so lucky, some of them went to jail and/or became early parents. Due to my activities, I could no longer rely on my parent’s allowance, I was too ashamed to admit to them what I have been doing and ask for an increase. I told them I would get a part-time job to fuel my unhealthy lifestyle “help my finances”. That was the first time they said that they were proud of me.

Downfall

Unfortunately, this meant I had less time to study. I knew that if I did not get help I would fail. So I started meditating and exercising started abusing Adderall and Modafinil [Told you it would help you dude.]. to help me study.

Enduring Nightmare

Eventually, this cycle of hell ended, and [Hey now, college is important for you! You are better off this way than not.] I graduated. Little did I know, I would shortly go through another similar experience in earning my medical degree.

Placebo

After all my hardships, I finally became a doctor, albeit in residency. I thought mMy parents would be happy when I told them. The first question out of their mouths was, “After your residency, what country do you plan on working in? Don’t tell me you plan on staying here, you should make more money than I did, go to the States!”. I severed contact soon after.

Beginning of the End

I told myself, things will finally be better when I got my practice. I barely noticed it when it came. [Finally, now you can be an actual productive member of society! Good job.] Maybe I would now be happy when I met everyone’s expectations made a lot of money, when I got a big house, a fast car, or when I cared for others.

Peers: We had a lot of fun back then didn’t we? We had that 💯% lit 🔥 af life 👌😂. You sure you don’t want to hit the ol-regulars? It’s stressful being a doctor, you know.

Teachers: You were a mediocre student, at least now that you are a doctor, you are not completely useless. It’s nice to know we did not waste our time on you.

Parents: We agree with the teacher’s comments in that you were a mediocre student. it would’ve been preferable if you didn’t hang out with your so called “friends”. You should have listened to us! The money you make here is but a fraction of what you could have had in the States!

Society: Hey now, sure you had your downs, but frankly, I don’t care! Now, when can I expect you to be treating people and stimulating the economy?