Closeness

 

I am Jorryn Wayne Repato, I was born on June 21, 2005. I live in Cabittaogan, Sta. Catalina, Ilocos Sur. The best word that describes me right now is “unhappy”. While thinking on what to write in my essay I was a little bit sad and now that I am writing it, makes a really sad.

 

                When I was a bit younger, I was really close to my parents and told them everything like, what makes me sad, if they hurt my feeling and whatever that was on my mind. As time passed and I grew up little by little, and you know as what they say, “Time changes a person.” And I think that is a hundred percent true because I have experienced it. Right now, I can really see that me and my parents have now become distant to one another because whenever I do something wrong they sometimes become abusive but that’s okay, I completely understand that they are doing it just to correct me for the things that I did wrong. Right now, I really feel uncomfortable telling how I feel to my parents because I know that they will just ignore it or not give importance to anything I say. Now that I am 15 years old, I can clearly see that I have changed a lot and grew distant to my parents, I even sometimes feel unloved. I have some friends at school who I spend a lot of time with and make me happy. At school I can feel like I belong with the friends that I have. But every time I go home, that temporary happiness disappears. So, every time I am home, I indulge myself in video games and watch anime so I can distract myself.

                My closeness with my parents has changed a lot since I was a child. From being really close to them to not being acknowledged by them at all. I am really trying to talk to them and spending more time with them. I hope that someday our situation will change and have a normal parent and child relationship.