A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

However, there will be instances that you cannot follow what your heart wants you to do because of some circumstances but this doesnt affect me to find the true value of my existence. This article will show how I had live my life for 17 years, the struggles I have been through, the happiness I have felt and the lessons I have learned. One evening in June 13 year 1993 a healthy baby boy was born at MCU Manila. He was baptized by the name of Ace Jordan Tayag also named, Ace Jordan Abrera. And from that day on, this babys journey had already began. Unlike other children I grew up where I only had my mother by my side. I am always wondering and asking my mom where my dad is yet she will just plainly answer me that hes just there in Davao. Later in my life I understand the truth that my parents are already separated even before I was born. Of course it vitiated my heart to found out that am not like other people living with my parents under the same roof. Realizing my situation, it left me no choice but to admit and accept that you really cant have it all instead just enjoy with what God gave you in life, for everything has its own purpose. My mom married another man when I was ___ hes name is Resty Abrera he adopted me as his own child thats why I am also known as Ace Jordan Abrera. I am thankful to him because he had always respected and loves my mom and treated me as his own son. He and my mother had two beautiful angels namely ____& _____. I am also glad that my sisters and I have a good sibling relationship. On the other hand, I met my dad ____when I was 12 years old. Mixed emotions of delightedness and nervousness is what I have felt when I first saw him. We talked about many things and enjoyed the same hobbies from that moment we became instantly compatible. This moment of my life is what I considered one of

the most memorable because I felt that there is part of me that has been completed. I started schooling when I was 4 years old at Knights of Columbus Occidental Mindoro. While I graduated elementary at Bagong Silang Eleamentary School at the same city. I attended and enjoyed my high school years at Occidental Mindoro National College. My parents decided to spend my college years here in Davao City so that I would be able to have more time with my dad and get to know him more. I really wanted to study In formation Technology but my mom wants me to be an engineer as an obedient son I followed her advice and enrolled to Ateneo de Davao University as an engineering student but due to some circumstances like language barrier, confusion and being new in the environment I failed in some subjects. For this reason my dad advice me to transfer to another school and shifted to another course which is nursing at Holy Child School of Davao so that I will have the same profession like my cousins. After one and a half years of studying the said discipline my dad found out that there is a great supply of nurses who are unemployed thats why he encouraged me to transfer to another medical course. And now year 2012 I am now enrolled here in San Pedro college of Davao specializing Respiratory Therapy. I promised to myself that this will be the last undergraduate course that I will be taking up since I felt that this is my calling and this is what I want to be in life. Life has a lot of ups and downs. There will be circumstances that will prevent you to achieve what you want and people that will try to influence your choices. You should stand firm with what you think is right and understand what your loved ones say and if possible digest what they want you to know. Ten years from now I can humbly say that I will be one of the best in my chosen career and become a physician who shortens my patients suffering and prolong their lives. Whatever struggles we may have in life we should always keep in mind that everything in life is luck and he who has a why to live can bear almost any how thats why we should figure out what and why we are living this kind of lie and

make the most out of it. Life also is a long process we should not dwell in the past, nor dream about the future, but concentrate our minds on the present moment in order for us to succeed.