Wazzup Pilipinas Short Stories Series: For My Son

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Never ever miss the chance. If you can give your efforts to something, give it. If its wasted, then create another effort for you to spend. “Better give efforts, than take efforts, efforts might eat you” ~Albert Einstein

It’s better that you tried your best for something, instead of someone giving you that something, for they might use it as gratitude.

The father’s reaction or the change in the father’s personality is very normal for anyone. The fact that his son became angry with him, made him change his ways. He worked very hard, just to take the responsibility of a father.

The father sacrificed his life for his child, this is also natural for all the fathers out there. They even say, “I’d rather die providing you what you need, than die you providing me what I need”

Below is our short story for the day.


I am a father. I am a husband, I am both but I lack in so many things. I raised my child without giving him enough things he needed for school. It’s not that I don’t want to, but I can’t. After my son graduated, he left me with these words which did hurt me a lot.

“I can’t stand along with this poor family. I only endured you because you paid for my school. You didn’t give me the things I wanted and needed when I was a kid, you are a useless father, comparing you with the other fathers? You are completely nothing.”

These words led me almost to suicide, but at least I have my wife who loves me. I don’t know how can he do or say such things. I raised him well, I know nothing wrong of what I did raising him. But on the other hand, I still think it’s my fault, if I just continued my studies and graduated, I should’ve gave him a better life, maybe he didn’t leave me in the first place.

Well, what can I do? He left me already, I don’t know where he is, the man I hardly raised, whom I thought would return the favour. Although I should not expect from him, I still expected because that became my motivation through my hardships in making him finish study.

When he is studying, I almost thought of just stealing somebody’s money just to give my son allowance. Almost thought of kidnapping, stealing, and almost all the other bad things a man can do. But no, I worked just for him to finish with complete requirements as a student.

All was sure, he just left me, not until I knew he was suffering from kidney failure(both kidneys are affected). I don’t know what to do, will I help? But he just left me? But what can I do, I am his father? I don’t have enough money for transplant.

Luckily I remembered a friend who told me, he can give me a lot of money, only if I do what he asks me to do. I called him and approached him.

The task will give me enough money for the transplant of my child, my friend said its legal. The task is to bring the bag of drugs in the airport then leave it there, just that, and I would get half a million dollar. On my background, the kidney transplant is only 100 million dollars. When I heard about the drug he said, I already told myself to hesitate, but on the other platform, I still think if I go to jail, at least, I saved my child, but no one would be left for my wife, no one would care for her. So I said, “NO”

I rejected his offer and what I did instead is find as many jobs as I can.

I found 4 jobs, dishwasher, janitor in a school, gardener, and construction worker.

In the morning, I’d start and go on to gardening our neighbour’s garden, it takes me 4 hours to finish the whole garden and they give me 5 dollars for that.

The garden was so big about 3 hectares

After so, I leave for canteen, and there wash dishes and this takes the whole lunch time and this however gives me 4 dollars.

Imagine washing 100 dishes a day

Then I go to school, to clean their restrooms, this just takes 3 hours of my day, and they give me at least 5 dollars.

Students here are undisciplined, sometimes they even urinate out of the bowl. I would understand it for the boys, but even the girls?

Lastly to end up my day, I go work as a construction worker, this takes 5 hours and gives me 15 dollars.

I have been working since I heard about my son, but I know I can, I know my son will live, no matter what. He still has an obligation.

These jobs left me no time for my wife, I don’t know what to do, how can I repay my son.

I am just replacing what I missed when he is still a child. i want to fill this unresponsible things I did because of my inability, or impatient. I want to make him fill that I am still a father.

So in one day, I earn 29, not even 1% of my son’s transplant. I don’t know what to do. The transplant of my son should be in the next two weeks. Should I go back to my friend and do the illegal job. Should I leave my wife? Should I work illegally? I don’t know what to do.

After two weeks, the son woke up, and saw a letter on his chest.

My one and only, don’t be sad, what I would expect of you is that you would take care of you family, and of course your one and only mother. I love you.

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