Steeming Community Contest: Your Story| The Lost Piece of My Heart

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30% payout goes to @steemincuration, special thanks to @fabio214 for this wonderful contest.

Struggles are required in order to survive in life, because in order to stand up, you gotta know what is falling down like.

It's been days since I thought, what would I write in a contest like this. It's not that I ran out of thoughts but of how will I be able to share it to you vividly.

Let me start this story with the young bisyakalog. She was born from a very happy family, a gift as they say to her siblings and parents. The only daughter among the 5 children. Being the youngest, she was always pampered and given everything she asks. A favorite you may say. She was an apple to the eye of her dad and a princess to her 4 older brothers.

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But in life there is no magic and perfection. No happiness that is not paired with pain. Life has struggles and challenges. The young girl was not prepared for the life she was about to face. Her once happy family turned sour and everything shattered into pieces.

Where have her king gone, he disappeared without a bid of goodbye. As she grew up she waited for her father to come back. But days and weeks past and nobody came. The life of luxury turned into a life of poverty. She no longer have her fancy things and can not even have a proper meal.

Young bisayakalog grew up to be a shy, timid and reserved kid. Who never trusts anyone and has hard time being attached to people. She had hard time finding an identity of her own. At times she would even forget reality and imagined of fantasy. A fantasy where her father was there.

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Until the day of her 18th birthday, prayed for so long to have her first dance with the most special person in her life. But God failed her that day, a call nor a letter came to greet her. The entire 8 years of waiting was put in vain. He will never come back! He is gone and he has forgotten us. The last words she said and never again mentioned her father.

She grew up to be a fine young women, finished her studies ,got a job and fell in love. But with her longing to be loved she got married early and had kids. She thought of making her own happy ending. Having a family on her own was what she thought that could fill that empty space in her heart.

But that longing just grew bigger each day. Until one day after 11 years a familiar stranger came and asked to meet her. Was meeting her father will finally fill that empty space?

He came back with a smile on his face, everything for him seemed nothing happened. He came back but he just continued living on his own. Rarely communicates and not even visit. What happened to him was a mystery only he knows. She then treated him as if he never came back.

Until one day a call came after 10 years. Her king was gone. A tear dropped without her even noticing. She drove to work listening to a disco music but her tears started to pour. For the second time he left without saying goodbye.

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Day by day a lot of people came to say their last goodbye. But why does all these people care so much to a guy who abandoned his family and lived his life on his own? Why would they shed so much tears to an irresponsible father? Questions confused her, but then she found out that a father who abandoned his children was a father to many.

Advised many, guided children as they grow and listened to the sentiments of others. He was someone whom others loved so dearly. A stranger to their lives but a savoir to their hearts.

Why does tears pour so much in funerals, is it sadness? No, it's remembering all the good things that makes you cry. Memories with that person that you treasure. But not leaving a tear when someone dies doesn't mean you care less but you just don't have anything to hold on to remember with that person.

The empty space in her heart can never be filled by other person, not her father, her husband, her children or her family. But be filled by her, a loss may have broke her heart but she realized that even the most precious person in your life can never stay with you forever. Its yourself who will always be with you, the only person who will never stop supporting you and will always be with you. Yourself

Don't ever forget to love yourself, be the one to uplift yourself. Make yourself feel loved and always choose to be a beautiful version of yourself. Its YOU and only You who can make yourself whole.