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BY GORDON Q. GUILLERGAN
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“YOU CAN do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.” – SABRINA BRYAN
NO MAN is an island. The need to thrive on your own is really futile for to a certain degree you will really need someone to seek help, comfort and support from. Support is such a broad term but what does our law see as support?
Article 194 of the Family Code defines what support is. Support comprises everything indispensable for sustenance, dwelling, clothing, medical attendance, education, and transportation, in keeping with the financial capacity of the family.
However, our law does not limit support to the aforementioned only; it further includes the education of the person entitled to be supported referred to in the preceding paragraph and shall include his schooling or training for some profession, trade or vocation, even beyond the age of majority. Transportation shall include expenses in going to and from school, or to and from place of work.
Therefore, even at 30 you may still be supported by your parents for as long as you seek a profession.
But how important is support, not just in the legal aspect?
They say for a man to see his worth, his soul should be fed and his morale boosted. For man who is full in support can conquer barriers. It is necessary for you to not only give financial and physical support to your children or wife but as well as emotionally and spiritually support.
Sometimes we think that the giving of physical things are enough but we neglect to realize that it is those little or simple gestures that have greater impact on their lives.
I believe the best form of support is a good push for someone to do something which you feel will do them good. Some people are silently wishing or hoping for that big break in life but are not given the opportunity to do so. Perhaps they are not courageous enough to want these or they are too complacent. But one influential push can make wonders.
I have heard of stories of married individuals who forego achieving a career because they got married and had children but eventually pursued their dreams. When asked what prompted them to do so, they commonly say their spouses pushed them into achieving their dreams. Now that is support.
Some parents have created this image with their children as strict and uptight. This can sometimes hold the children back in verbalizing their dreams – contrary to what mom and dad want.
I know of a deal between a father and a daughter. The daughter wanted to be lawyer but her dad wanted her to be a nurse. Solution: they met halfway. The father told his daughter that if her nursing career won’t prosper, she had to take up law.
Well, the nursing career did prosper and the daughter forgot about the desire to be lawyer – until her dad gave her the list of requirements needed to enroll in law school.
It’s these simple things that teach us how support is important in each of us. It is that one small voice that will tell you that you can do it or go ahead try it.
So live everyday with the thought of supporting an endeavor, you’ll see how it can make wonders./PN
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