An Essay by: Jobert Menoza
Everyone is down, everyone is struggling because of these pandemic even us we and our store is having a hard time having because all the prices of the goods were rising, and we cannot spend time doing our travel or even just eating outside is really hard because of the protocol when the pandemic is just starting. But I can say that this makes me think of doing something like continuing my passion to cook but also thinking about sharing my food with our frontliners.
I have actually loved cooking since I was in elementary school, maybe because of our bakery. I can remember one day that I asked my mother if I could just spend my birthday giving food for frontliners. I was actually thinking that it has been months since we started this fight in this pandemic and since we cannot celebrate it with many people I just decided to spend it with our frontliners. It was actually 5am in the morning September 9, I decided to go to the public market with my aunt and buy some vegetables, meat , noodles for pancit, we also got some bread and bottle water for a complete meal. We ended at 7am. I can say that I am kind of tired but I said that I should not let this stop me “focus ako sa goal para sa mga frontliners” I told myself. The next few hours my aunt and I started cooking pancit and prepared the bread and water. We finished everything at about 11am and decided to start giving it out by 12pm, good enough time to spend eating. It was so fun seeing every frontliner smile at us and say thank you. I can probably say that I may not have this grandest birthday celebration but it is one of the most meaningful.
This is just a testament that in every difficulty that we can encounter we can overcome it by helping one another. I hope that this story can inspire others to join us in our mission which is to deliver the best deeds in any aspect. One of the best traits that I saw during this pandemic is that every Filipino can be a change and deliver a positive impact to others
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