The Wheel of Life

Life is like a wheel indeed, sometimes you'll find yourself at the top and sometimes you'll wake up and saw your self taking your way down.
I consider my self lucky because even in a small span of time I was able to held in my hands the material things that this life can bring. It was decades ago when our family business was at its top, never ever thinking that one day this will be over. I was an easy-go-lucky and an impulse buyer person then I tend to buy things in an instant, the moment it caught my eyes I will have it even sometimes its not significant. I also tend to treat my friends every now and then. I never knew the word “savings” not until four years ago.
January 2004 economic crisis started, our business slowly took its downfall but we still failed to notice it. It was midyear when my mom had us gathered and talked about it. We ended up crying and wishing that if we did this and that maybe we didn't came up to that point. Fortunately, my parents still able to continue the business despite the crisis and with God's help before the year thoroughly ended we able to cope up with it. God gave us another chance but along with that chance was another big obstacle, we discovered that my dad had an affair with someone that was close to us and whom we trusted most. It made my mom weaker that it made her gave up. Gave up in a sense that she failed to do her responsibilities with the business and with the family which results to the business second fall. During that time we came up to a decision to close the business for a while. It was almost months before my family was able to stand up again and surpass that obstacle.
Now, at this moment as I wrote this article I know that our business is facing its final fall and I think its the time for us to give up everything we had had and live a life that God wanted us to have. I told my mom few days ago, “Despite everything that happened Ma, we should thank Him, for He has given us the chance to experience the earthly wealth and now its the time For Him to get it back and we can't do anything about it. All we need to do is surrender everything to God and live each day as what He wanted us to do. He had a purpose in doing this things, maybe He wanted us to see a more important aspect of life through this. Let's just pray and have faith!”
To end this article I can say that I now learned the things that I should have learned before and it made us stronger as a family and it strengthened my faith with God. In His time, I believe that I'll be waking up again at the top of the wheel and by then living up with the lessons I had.