December 27, 2022
Life is full of ups and downs. It brings us both sadness and happiness. It gave us joy and sorrow and it makes life sweet and bitter. That's life, all of them are part of it.
Happy holidays everyone! I hope you are having a vacation with family and friends. If not at least you have a great time for yourself.
Time flies really so fast that the end of the year 2022 is about to come. Now is the time to recall or reminisce our life in 2022. Allow me to share my greatest joy and greatest sorrow for this year 2022.
Greatest joy
There were lots of things or circumstances that gives us joy. To me, still having this life is a great joy too but this time I will share one of the greatest joy in my life for this year.
Last July 13, 2022 I posted my first and introductory post here on hive. I never thought that I will be here on this platform this far. I learned about Hive from @tpkidkai when I saw his post in other blogging platform about hive onboarding webinar. Thanks to you tp. In my curiosity, I tried to read and made a comment in that article until I joined a webinar that I am the only participant.
My hive account was created around June and fortunately posted my first blog on July 13, 2022. Since that day, I am trying to learn more about hive. I am more than 5 months in the platform and here I am still learning. Yes, I am still learning because I know I still have a lot of things that I needed to learn. Indeed, learning is an unending process. We are learning day by day.
When I step in to hive I felt happy because I found another platform where I can practice more on writing in English, I can write my feelings, I can share my thoughts and above all I learned something from other writers. Blogging in hive also have a great reward because you have a chance to earn while blogging and learning.
When I first received my reward I am so happy and hardly believe it. When it sinks in my mind that it was true, I started to make goals in Hive. One of them is to buy a new cellphone as a replacement for the one that I am using because it is already full and most of the time it hangs up.
After five months I reached my HBD goal and I already bought a new cellphone yesterday.
Thanks to @dennnmarc for giving some tips what cellphone to buy.
It is my greatest joy to know HIVE this year and was able to buy a new cellphone for myself. I will use it in blogging and hopefully I can engage more in HIVE.
Greatest sorrow
Life is a blessing and at the same time life is short. We don't know when our life shall end so while we are alive we have to enjoy life to the fullest and show our love and care to our family, friends, relatives and love ones.
Last February 08, 2022 at exactly 10:19PM I received a text message from my mother that says "Mga anak wala na si tatay ninyo. Patay na sya." It is bisaya or cebuano, our local dialect which means "My children, your father is gone. He was dead." I wasn't able to read that message on time because I already asleep that time. I woke up because of a call from my younger brother telling me the sad news. It wasn't easy to hear those news. I can hear my younger brothers crying on the other line. We then decided to meet and went through to the hospital because our mother is alone in there as the hospital protocol that time is to have only one watcher in the hospital.
As the eldest, I am trying to be strong in front of them. I felt so weak that time especially when I saw my one brother who almost collapsed. We cried but we are trying to comfort each other.
Oh why? the pain is really still there. There is something in my throat while I am typing this one. It is really hard to remember those moments because most of the time it breaks my heart.
During those moments, I and my family (my mother and younger siblings) were holding to God's promises that He will come again and the dead in Christ will be resurrected. We are hoping to see our father again in the resurrection morning.
The death of our father is the greatest sorrow I have in this year 2022.
The year 2022 is about to end. I just hope that we can give thanks to our Almighty for the joy He bring and even to the sorrow that comes in our life because I believe that everything happens for a reason and everything works together for good.
This is also my participation for the Ladies of Hive community contest #114. Thank you so much @ladiesofhive for this initiative and thank you @thekittygirl for this question that enable us to reminisce the memories for the whole year 2022.
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