Random things that I've learned from my Tatay

It was Sunday evening, 10:30 pm me and my ever loving (hehehe) siblings were chatting at the sala with the topic white christmas (because of the color theme of our Christmas tree), our tatay sat down with us and started to converse about the latest issues in our individual lives. We haven't done that for almost 3-4 weeks because of our busy schedule. Our conversations were happy and nice, then suddenly my evil sister Christine open the issue about last saturday night (When I was apparently super sleepy (translation for drunk) after the beer tower party from my co-worker's educational advancement). She literally turned on the Tatay's button. Now everyone wanted to escape and formulate their best idea on how to get out from our Sala.

To fast forward everything that we have talked about (2 hours), this is my summary of the random lessons that our Tatay shared to us:

1. Always assess your friends. Site the difference between a friend and a barkada..(And as I've assessed it, I know that I have true loving friends from my level up family. They protected  and keep me safe everytime we have our level up sessions)

2. Learn the Art of Refusal. (You cannot say Yes to everything, di sa lahat ng oras lumalaban! hehehe!)

3. It's okay to Level up but do it occassionally. (not weekly, not every other day, not everyday) ---Tapos na ang pangarap ko...hehehe!

4. Self-worth - Respect and love for one's self. It wasn't all about them, It should be more about you and how you could change them. :)

5. Every thing that you've accomplished and achieved will be worthless, once you've lost your dignity as a person. (this one hits me bigtime)
6. Great power comes with great responsibility and great roles to fulfill. "BE A ROLE MODEL TO YOUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS)

Maybe I didn't see it all. I was focused on the idea that it makes us happy, it allow us to escape from our personal, financial and workplace problems that we didn't look on its other consequences. 

At the end of the conversation, I say "thank you" to tatay. Thank you because, he admitted to us that he wasn't perfect, he's been doing that before and had already experienced the ups and downs of his own level up journey. Thank you for explaining to me the other side of my happiness. Thank you for allowing me to do it again this time with greater precautions and thank you for letting me appreciate my worth and dignity as a person and as his daughter. 

Things will not happen the same way again. I'll be more careful this time :)