We all know teenage life is a life where most of us are figuring out and knowing ourselves better. We try and explore, we try to put all the puzzle pieces together, and we try to understand ourselves. It’s a big world and in the vast expanse of this timeless place, we get lost.
Jay Cee Mangundayao Zara, a sixteen-year-old boy, is one of those teens. His hobbies are reading and writing. He usually reads tragic stories. He claims he is still missing something and that he’s trying to find himself. One thing the boy is sure about is that he has talent in writing, though he also claims that he still has many flaws and imperfections in it. He stood still and embraced it because as what Ventre Canard taught him—being brave and facing the challenges you might encounter. The young boy dreams to become a writer and an engineer at the same time but if there are only one of the two careers he must choose, he said that he would pursue being an engineer because he said that we are all writers in the first place. He further added that the moment we choose our paths, we decide for ourselves and it is our own will on how we create our destiny. “Doon palang, writer na ako, so I chose engineering kasi ‘yun yung hindi ko pa kayang gawin…kung ‘di ko ipa-prioritize,” said Jay Cee. His great adoration for Ventre Canard was felt when Jaycee said that his reason for being an archangel is that the moment he read one of her literary pieces, he decided that he will support her no matter what. This only means that he saw hope and one of the things he learned from her is to be true to one’s self and that we all have worth. |
Kapitana’s influence brought changes to his life. He participated in VCA Flex Myself dated October 14th facilitated by Joms Salazar, one of the admins in the closed group page of Ventre Canard’s Angels. In his post, he said that he is not sure if he is good at writing but despite his flaws in doing it, he will still pursue it because he believes that writing is for everyone. As he has said that he is lost, this does not mean forever, someday, he will find himself and he would live up to his remark that says, “… and remember, you are the best author of your life.”
In time, he will write his story as a man who already knows himself, a man who enclasped the lessons he learned from our faceless author and that is to give hope to others and to not let yourself be drowned by the words of others; a man beyond his flaws and imperfections.
In time, he will write his story as a man who already knows himself, a man who enclasped the lessons he learned from our faceless author and that is to give hope to others and to not let yourself be drowned by the words of others; a man beyond his flaws and imperfections.
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Ventre Canard is derived from French words with an English translation of 'belly duck'. Her duck-shaped birthmark on her belly inspired her to use this username. She got her birthmark because she was born a few steps away from the sea with number of ducks. That's why she had grown attached to the sea and it's one of the reasons why she used ships as a symbolism of her whole Wattpad family named VCA short for VentreCanard's Angels.
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