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It was New Year’s Eve when my father saw me making list of my New Year’s Resolution. I told him that it would be my guide in the next year and hope that I could make them all into actions. He noticed that I have listed so many things I want to do. He suggested me that I better use his own list because it was shorter but would help me and guide me more in my daily living.

First, I should always remember the three things in life that once you let go, you can no longer have it back: the time, words and opportunities. So do not waste these on not so important things. Second, I should always remember the three things in life that could destroy a person: anger, boastfulness and not forgiving other people. Be humble and be a forgiver. And third, try to implement it in my life: hope, peace and honesty because these would help me continue life despite all the hurdles that I would encounter in life.

He added the three things in life that we are not sure of: luck, success and dreams. For him, there is also three things that makes a person: having commitment, honesty and hardwork. And that I should not forget the three most important things in life: love, family and friends. My father’s list will surely be a guide for me not only for the next year but or all the coming years in my life.

If there is something one cannot do without, it is mother.  Our father loves her so much, our sister wants to imitates her, there are times that our brother ignores her, and her friends even the woman next door confides in her.

She can be as sweet as sugar but more sour than a lemon.  She likes having her birthday remembered and feel sad when it was forgotten. She loves going to the church with the whole family, cleaning the entire home, gardening, dinner out even without special occasion, embroidering, reading cook books and a little make up and lipstick on her face.  She knows everything happening in her family.  She has the beauty of a spring day, the patience o a saint, the appetite of a small bird and the memory of a large elephant.

There are so many traits that a mother possessed that no one can have.  Certainly, a mother is one thing that nobody can do without.  Even if you have harassed her, tried her patience and worn her out, and seems that the end of the world has descended upon you, still you can win her back with our little words “I love you, Mom.”