I had a wonderful Christmas celebration with my family and it is always nice to be surrounded by the people you care so much about. What I love about Christmas is the chance to be reunited with family members you rarely see and chat with them even for awhile just to update on what’s going on with their own lives. I have a big family and even though we don’t get to see each other much these days because everybody is busy with our own stuff, the bond we share is too special that even time cannot hinder us from growing apart. Christmas too is the children’s time to shine, and this year we had a baby blast in our family seven newly born were added in my ever-growing family and I just love my nieces and nephews. Okay, I don’t want to play favorites but unconsciously I bought more gifts to my niece who looks a lot like me and she is also the daughter of one of my favorite elder cousin. That cousin of mine was also my mom’s favorite nephew and godson, we grew up so close to each other that even though he was considered a rebel and problem child in our family, I still look up on him. He used to be a drug addict and he will always be caught in the middle of a gang war and he’ll always end up the bad guy. He dropped out of school because of being a drug dependent and he threw his life and his future ahead of him because of that addiction. It was difficult time in my family and the worse thing is that he’s not alone, I got several other cousins who are also hooked up with drugs and there’s nothing much we can do about it. He accidentally got someone pregnant and the girl’s family didn’t want their daughter to marry my cousin because of his bad reputation and because he was a drug addict, the girl’s parents took away their daughter and went to the States to bear my cousin’s daughter but he never got to see his daughter because she was so far away. My cousin was so devastated that he got himself more hooked with drugs and it seems like there’s no hope for him. But one day, he told his parents that he wants to enter into drug rehabilitation so that he could finally get a drug treatment and start to get his life back. He spent two years in drug rehab and now, he’s now working in a cruise ship and got a family of his own. There’s life after addiction, you just have to take that step forward and get help.

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