Cerene: A Hero's Life

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It was a humid day in the tropics of Quezon City, Philippines. Cerene Jae Diaz was a three year toddler living under a traveling business woman mother and an engineer father -- not married. Cerene lived a simple life of being waited on by Nannies. She could fall, and one of her nannies would be by her side in 2.5 seconds. However, her simple life came to a halt that when she found out she was moving to America. Her life would take a drastic turn from island city life to bay area suburban life. Summer of 2002, she flew from Quezon City to SFO. 14 hours later the plane would land in the foreign country to the little girl’s eyes. Her life from that point on is simply history. Instead of learning tagalog and going to a private all girls catholic …show more content…

From August 26, 2010 for about 4 years, Cerene was in a relationship with a 2 years older Filipino guy named John Matthew Domingo. However, the significance was not in the relationship itself; the life changing moment was when they had decided to end the relationship. At first, it was a disaster to Cerene. The first week she was crying herself to sleep every night, texting the guy, texting the guy’s friends, and wrapping herself in a ball of emotions sobbing about how she would not find love again. As time went on, she had two decisions-- sulk and cry over something that can’t be changed or learn from the situation. She, then, looked at all the reasons the relationship failed and realized that she deserved it to herself to become a better person from the mistakes she had made. She also realized that the guy was imperfect as well, and it isn’t worth her time to obsess over a person who gave up on her and did not treat her as well as she deserved. It was 2 weeks after the break up when Cerene got up from her bed, wiped her tears off, deleted all the pictures relating to him on her phone, and started her journey to be a better person. She decided to lose weight(from 130 lbs to 112lbs), work on her trust issues, and simply be the best her she could be; there was nothing holding this girl back. Currently, the ex is in her AP Calculus class and she can walk in with confidence knowing that she respects him but she is so much better without

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