Thank you for giving me the Best of Both Worlds
It's Mother's Day. And what best way to thank my Nanay and my Tatay but by showing you what shaped me to be what I am today. I am a product of a middle-class family. And I am lucky enough to have gotten the best of both worlds. I can sleep in a hut and eat using my hands. I can dress up, stay in a plush hotel and eat at 5-star restaurants. I am comfortable being with a young mother with 12 kids who lives in a small, run-down, one-bedroom hut but can also act carefree and chic when I'm with my single "Sosyal" friends. I have been exposed to both worlds, the upper class who lives in nice big houses and the lower class living in the slums. I saw through the eyes of both worlds, I am a product of both... but I belong in none. We are considered a "middle-class" family. Both of my parents are teachers, one in the academe specializing in the English language, another as a musician teaching/conducting a band. I grew up with not too much and not too little....