BIOGRAPHY

A father’s Sacrifice

A Biography of Katrina Beloya

          There is girl whose name is Katrina, born from the love of her mother, whose a former Midwife named Rosemarie, and her father, a seaman named Rodrigo. She was born in Caloocan and grew up living in a “Squaters area”. She did not mind where she lived back then, all she remembers are the times she played with her friends under the rain. She did not understand back then, the reason why their house would have water inside when it rains, she did not mind how small her house was. She rarely remembers if she had ever bonded with her mother when she was a child, she does not remember her mother in her childhood memories, only her aunt who keeps her company while her mother goes to work. But most of all, she did not even have memories or pictures of her father being there for her when she was a child.

           As times goes by, she turned 3 years old when they moved in an apartment, the place was bigger compared to their old home, but still, her father was absent from her childhood. The only father figure she had known is from her uncle, her mother’s older brother. He taught her how to ride a bike and he always buy her  food and gifts, she loves him the most, she rarely miss the absence of her father. Many of you may wonder if she ever hated her father, if she rebelled from her parents, on the contrary, she loves and respect her parents. At a young age, her mother explained to her thoroughly and carefully why her father was not with them, that her father must endure missing his family to provide for them. Without her father’s sacrifices they would never have a nice house, and that she and her sibling could never afford to attend private schools. So her mother would always tell them, not to hate their father, but to understand that being far away from them is a sacrifice he must make to show how much he truly loves his family.