Kung totoo man ang reincarnation, I wish my parents will have the best of everything
Sometimes I wish my parents had lived a completely different life when they were kids, yung hindi sila lumaki in survival mode and were instead loved, cared for, and given the best by their parents. My father grew up with parents who did not really care for him. His father was a gambler and a drunk, while his mother was irresponsible. He basically grew up on the streets, and I think that is why he became such a detached and emotionally unavailable father with so many unresolved issues. He never really learned how to raise children properly.
My mom, on the other hand, grew up very poor with eight siblings. My grandmother tried, but she became a mother very young, and my grandfather was also a drunk who, although he supported them at times, failed them in many ways too. Because of how she grew up, she raised us in constant alert mode, laging nakaabang sa worst case scenario and always negative about so many things. I feel like so many of their behavioral and emotional issues came from the childhoods they had. And that had damaged me and my brother immensely.
Sometimes I wish they had both been given better lives growing up, and honestly, there are times when I wish they had never found each other. Kung totoo man ang reincarnation, I hope that in their second lives, they will finally be given the chance to truly live.