A former flight attendant from Santa Rosa, Laguna who was retrenched from her job due to the COVID-19 pandemic finds hope amid challenges as she diverted her life鈥檚 flight path into selling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to make a living.
On the effectivity date of the second wave of where she works in, Maurice Maureen Avila, 26, spoke up through a Facebook on Oct. 16 about how difficult it was for her to accept losing her 鈥渄ream job,鈥� and how she manages to cope to continue earning for her family.
鈥淕abi-gabi, tinatanong ko ang Diyos, 鈥楤akit kailangan mong kunin [鈥榶ung] pangarap na pinaghirapan ko?鈥� ,鈥� Avila wrote. (Every night I ask God, 鈥榃hy did you have to take my dream away? I worked hard for this.)
], kita kits tayo sa pila sa grand hiring. Sabay-sabay tayong mangarap ulit, sabay-sabay tayong lilipad ulit!鈥� (For those who still want to become flight attendants, let us see each other in the grand hiring queue. Let us dream together again, let us fly together again.)鈥淲e will have our wings again!鈥� she said.
Avila鈥檚 story of determination has inspired netizens and brought her post to go viral, with over 7,400 reactions, 25o comments and 1,300 shares, as of this writing. JB
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