I am Julia C. Chaves. I was born on August 25, 1998 in Cagayan de Oro City. I am now fifteen years old. I am a third-year student at Corpus Christi School. I am a little girl with big dreams and big plans in life. I am a person who never gives up on the challenges that I face each and every single day. I give my all for the things that are important to me and for the people whom I love the most. I do my very best just to reach the things I want in life. I am a person who is willing to sacrifice things just for my loved ones. I am an understanding and friendly person. I love adventuring and exploring new things. I love travelling to different places. I love taking and capturing moments which are priceless with my camera. I love tasting and eating different food. I also love dancing and singing. My mother’s name is Julieta C. Chaves. My father’s name is Ramon P. Chaves Jr. I have two elder brothers, namely; Ramon Jose C. Chaves III and Michael Myko C. Chaves. I am the only girl and the youngest among us three. I am the only one who is still going to school, because my brothers are already working. My brother Ramon and I are closer to each other compared to my other brother. We share things together. I usually approach him when it comes to problems in life. He is always there for me. He is also my motivation in life. He is already living in Manila with his wife and his child which is my nephew. My nephew’s name is Ramon Francisco S. Chaves IV. He is already six years old. I love playing and having fun with him. Sometimes, I even think that he is already like my younger brother, because I’ve always been dreaming and wanting to have a younger sibling, so that I have someone to talk to, to play with, to have fun with, etc. My brother Myko is still living with us, he does not have his own family yet. I am also still living with my family together with my grandmother. While I was still young, my parents were both working abroad, so I was left here with my brother, my grandmother, and my nanny. They were the ones who took care of me while my parents were not around. My nanny is not just my nanny. She has already been a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, and a best friend to me. She has been taking care of me since I was five years old. She is already like a part of our family. We treat her like she is part of the family. I don’t ever want to lose her. She is already close to my heart. I also have two pets which are dogs. I love dogs. I also treat them like my younger siblings. I give them the love and the care that they deserve. I have friends and of course best friends. My friends are my happiness, without them, my life would be totally boring. There is never a dull moment when I am with them. They always make me laugh and happy. They are the ones whom I approach whenever I am sad or whenever I have problems about my family and other stuff. They are my comforters.
A puzzle is a problem which tests the ingenuity of a would-be solver. In a puzzle, one is required to put pieces together, in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct solution of the puzzle. My life is like a big puzzle, because every day, I struggle to find its pieces to make it into a complete picture. My life is like a puzzle that never gets solved until the very end. All I could do is to try my best to gather the pieces, to make sense of the images I can form somewhat, and to hope that one day, everything will make sense, and the picture formed will be far better than I expected it to be. I must just be patient, because it takes time for all the pieces of my life to come together. As we start the journey of life we have to move on with different phases of our life. So we must start planning accordingly on which specific path to follow to gain instant success and complete God's master plan. Moreover various aspects of life often appear to be puzzle pieces to us and we can only fit the pieces easily by walking on the path laid out by God. As we go through life, we gather puzzle pieces and often this makes us shuffle and reshuffle those puzzle pieces to get a proper answer. Maybe by doing this continuous shuffling we place those mysteries of life in right places and at the end get an answer to each of those which appeared to be a puzzle at one point of life to help complete the puzzle. Diverse phases of life create lots of puzzles pieces in life. Say for instance, losing my first tooth, my very first day of school, the day when you graduated from grade school, my first genuine love, my first heart break, my first vacation and so on. We go on adding mysteries to each day of our lives, but we never succeed to get an answer of these questions always. I always make an effort to solve my problems one by one. And I have learned in the process that patience is the virtue of life and all these diverse experiences makes us more mature to deal with life. Moreover, I start flourishing in life and it tends to get more meaningful once I start solving the mysteries. Our main motto should be regaining the lost tracks in our lives and to follow the right path to make sure life's unique puzzles are found and the pieces will fit. One important thing is that we should read the Bible and follow God's word. This will enable us to unleash the humanity in us and to know which track to follow in life so that all the final pieces of the puzzles in life can be sorted out easily and fit together. Life is like a puzzle and we have so many puzzles pieces to deal with, but the moment we surrender ourselves to God and start following his path, that is when our journey in life will become a smooth one. We will never have to shuffle the puzzle pieces again or find the pieces which are lost or hard to fit, the final puzzle piece will be complete.