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By: Raiza D. Cruz

I wasn't a fan of reading stories when I was in elementary, but my cousins encouraged me to read the pocketbook she and I had read and finished, and that's where I began making reading fiction stories a hobby.

Because I didn't have money to buy pocketbooks, I searched in the app store and discovered the Wattpad app, and this is where the craze began, especially if the story was good.

And I was crazy to read a story I'd been interested till now, and that's why I do not particularly appreciate posting or staying on social media platforms. And it's also sometimes the reason I'm lazy on all of it since I'm spending more time reading.

But sometimes, I get less because I focus more on my school work since it may be difficult for me to complete.

By: Raiza D. Cruz

My cousin who was in college began by saying that "Tara swimming para mawala stress sa pag online class." And all of my cousins chatted and formed a group conversation on messenger to communicate, and here we discussed who would attend and agreed that we would all come.

And we spoke about going swimming at gerly's place. Since we were unable to vacation in distant locations regions due to the pandemic. So we made a reservation to when no one was going to swim, which was all well. We also paid down payments. And when our day of swimming came, gerly's place was suddenly told they were going to close right on the day of our swimming.

So we were concerned because we couldn't go forward, and we mightn't obtain our down payments, so my cousin quickly asked help from my aunt to go there where she had to find out why they need to close and refund our down fees.

And we quickly searched for a private resort after we received our down payment because we avoided covid and reached 5:00 pm to discover alternatives since we want a vacation. But, unfortunately, our budget cannot afford the five resorts we found. However, the reservation of other resorts was also fully occupied. And we discovered the A&L hidden farm resort.

After we checked the resort, we noticed it newly open, and it was clean and secure. So we decided to go swimming here to buy the food we needed and suited up our relatives so that we were the first ones to get to the resort immediately.

However, numerous of our cousins, especially in Bataan, did not go as our governor issued an unexpected lockdown for a month in our area. And we almost had a lockdown in the resort since the number of cases of covid was increasing. Therefore, there would be checkpoints in each barangay, so we were worried, but also because we had a reprimand, so we stayed and enjoyed our short vacation.

By: Raiza D. Cruz

Occasionally, I looked back on younger generations' interests. Children could be seen on the road playing sipa, piko, patintero, agawan ng base, hide-and-seek, and tumbang preso when the afternoon approached.

 But I realize that young people appear to forget the old games that I started while I was in a secondary school as time passes. The children I used to see playing on the streets are only a few and barely leave their houses since modern technology is the new interest of young people nowadays.

 I also observed that kids become more interested in things, particularly new technology, and then there was a pandemic, and the youngsters could not go out to play.

 And because of modern technology, young people have also been interested in things they should not know. When I open social media accounts, particularly in Tiktok, almost all young people today are interested in using TikTok and Facebook. Especially with online games, most of which are attractive to young people. If we are all glad, can we turn the time back?

By: Raiza D. Cruz

She suffered kidney condition as a child because she constantly ate pancit canton, junk food, and fast food. As a result, in recent years, she has stopped eating fast food and other unhealthy products. It happened, she's always been in the hospital, and she's been there a month since the disease worsened.

 Her doctor in our region has stated it would be preferable if she were transferred to Manila and checked herself at a kidney hospital and locate a doctor there since her doctor has difficulty with us because her disease worsens. And when they got a doctor and brought her to the hospital, her health somewhat improved, and the doctor recommended that she try using herbs.

 And after a year, her disease worsened because her studies were stressful, and she could not be stressed. The doctor recommended that she cease studying for at least a year to recover. And we were sad for her because she wanted to be a doctor, but she couldn't be a doctor in this instance, and she had to overthink when she quit her studies because she felt that she wasn't able to study, and we learned that's because she opened up to us what she felt.

 After one year, she studied Medicine again. She worsened throughout her two years of education since she usually woke up and stressed till midnight and yet experienced a qualification-honor comparison. And the doctor informed the family to be ready before a pandemic because it would be kidney transplantation if they didn't want her to have dialysis.

 She couldn't have a checkup in Manila for a year since there was a pandemic. And since she did not check up, and when we went for a break, my cousin and I swam, we observed that she is pale and sluggish.

 And she was harmed even though she was not hit and gets worse, and she had several bruises. And then she couldn't stand since her body was getting weaker after our brief vacations, and she didn't have any more interactions with us. Our family observed everything and ordered her parents to go to a laboratory to check up on her, and it turned out that her hemoglobin is very low. Then they got her in the hospital and need to have a blood donor to have normal hemoglobin.

 The physician said that she needs emergency dialysis, which she was afraid she didn't want. However, the doctor told her that if she disagreed, she would pass away, and her cousin is worried we might lose her, so we always massage her via messenger. She questioned what she wanted to eat. She responded spaghetti before the emergency dialysis since it was her favorite food, and we sobbed in happiness because she could eat spaghetti again after fifteen years.

 And she came home after a week, however. She goes to dialysis hospital every three times a week since she needs it. And so far, we hoped that we could find a donor and that they would match. So she can continue her studies because, for the second time, she halted. And since she fought and she was strong, we are proud of her.