What Made Her Complete

When I was a child, there was a woman who happened to be married unfortunately with these polygamous men who gave her five children.
She married to her first husband, an abroad whom she knew, was committed to another woman. This made her decide to annul their marriage and went back to her hometown with her eldest daughter and youngest son.
When she couldn’t be able to carry out her problems, she ventured out from the province and worked in the city as home servant where she met another guy who was a businessman. Because of the love that bound to them, they got married without knowing that this man was already tied to his legal wife. When she knew it, she decided to leave him, but the man pleaded her not to go and fought his love for her with the consent of his legal wife.
However, when her first husband and auntie knew that she was getting married, they asked her to get back those children to them for the sake of their future and they sent them even it was against her will; while, the businessman built a house for her and shared his wealth with her. Out of their love, the man gave her two offspring, an eldest son and a daughter.
Several years of their relationship, she never thought that somehow her husband would make her a widow. Starting when her husband died, she took the responsibility of being the father and the mother of her two children. She indeed cultivated the land of her farm and planted corn and root crops. These sufficed their daily needs.
When her children from her first husband knew her situations, they visited her and never went back in their father’s home instead they stayed with her. Through the hard times, they were united each other and kept themselves worked for toils altogether.
Her eldest daughter continued her studies in their province until she finally finished her tertiary degree with flying colors. Fortunately, she became a licensed teacher in English Language and taught in the secondary school somewhere in Manila. While teaching, she met an Australian guy who happened to be in loved with her and happily married. She is now living with her husband in Australia.
As mother, she had almost ceded her life when she knew that her third husband, a policeman, who gave her a son, was also committed to another woman who was now his legal wife and when her two sons, the youngest son of her first husband and the eldest of her second husband, were influenced by illegal drugs. It seemed a curse for her that made her life miserable. Yet, it is a prerogative that human beings are intertwined with difficulties in life, which teaches her to earn strong will and immeasurable faith in God who truly blessed her two sons’ transformation; from being addictive to alcohol and drugs, they become productive children; the eldest of her second husband, though was not able to finish his studies in secondary, is about to be married with a successful nurse who is presently working in England; the youngest son of her first husband has already realized to pursue his studies. Her youngest daughter is still continuing her studies in the elementary. Her eldest son of her third husband is under the nourishment of her brother who is impotent.
Despite her ill-fated relationship with those guys and those tedious tasks bequeathed to her as a woman, she could still wear the colorful mask that brought her to real life of woman’s imperfections.
Her pure heart and kindness to people are the sources of her winning in the Barangay Election as one of the Council Members. Her prolific mind and love to her community inspire her to serve and make the council in the limelight of honor and pride.
As I grew matured, I never expect that I could personally talk with her. I thought, it was just a mere manifestation of my fertile imagination. I thought, I would just keep it by myself and let it be gone in my memory. But, alas, my innocence is still fresh and my gratitude for her as a mirror of my mother and a friend of mine remain.
These are the woman in her that made her complete.