My name is Matthew Joaquin, I was born in Valenzuela and now living in Bulacan.

When my
mother gave birth to me, I felt like I had a vision of 30 percent, as if the doctor took me and
placed me with my mother. I don't know if it was just a dream. . but I actually saw a doctor
holding me and my vision disappeared after a few minutes I still remember when I was one year
old my father was teaching me to walk and my mother was teaching me to speak and when I
stepped . For six years, my parents taught me at school, my first experience at school was that
there were children who were crying because they didn't want to leave their parents and I didn't
know what the teacher was teaching at the front so I continued to attend. . at school until I
learned and understood what they were saying and when I went to grade 1 to 6 it was here that I
learned to read and solve equations in math and here I made friends that I only knew. was
playing outside doing nonsense and so on and that time I didn't think of any problem because I
just knew that day to have fun and when I entered grade 7 until now this is where I became
aware of reality. that you have to work hard to survive because if you don't have a job you have
nothing to eat and I have also experienced having a friend who is a bad influence, the kind who
will invite you to drink, take cutting classes, smoke cigarettes or any other unpleasant things that
a minor should not do and one day I went to the farm quietly and all I could hear was the
chirping of the birds att that's when I thought if I was doing this right and in my thoughts I
realized that I had to change my life I started to abandon my friends who only brings me to bad
work and I started reading the bible and when I read the bible here I saw Christ's sacrifice for us,
he was nailed to the cross to cleanse our sins and my parents also helped me to be well. my life
they bought me a bike so that I can go out and go to the places I want to go and I forgot to say
that my parents are hardworking and they will do everything just to make my siblings and I's life
better .