The Filipino Seaman abroad is considered as one of the overseas workers abroad or the OFW. Regardless of your job for as long as you work abroad, you belong to the OFW. However, not all have the same life experience in life. The only experience every life of the Filipino Seaman has in common is that every one remits money towards the country, the Philippines.

In order to achieve what you want to be in life is that you need something. As to the life of the Filipino Seaman abroad, it requires knowledge, effort, patience and perseverance. The life of the Filipino Seaman abroad should be equipped with these values. Otherwise, it will be a lot of questions wether or not one blends towards the life of the Filipino Seaman abroad as each value holds its importance. Wherever you may be outside the country, the knowledge helps a lot. It serves as your weapon to deal with other nationalities. See how the effort pays? It is your effort that keeps you strong to compete with other seaman across the nation.

But being strong is not enough. For you also need protection, that is patience. It is your patience that serves as your shield. It keeps you away from harm from whatever it is thrown to you. But what about the perseverance? How does it help towards the life of the
Filipino Seaman abroad? Well, it moulds you to become the real you as it makes you courageous no matter how long and how much it takes.

One might ask, are these all enough that a Filipino Seaman abroad should have? No, there are things that a Filipino Seaman working abroad should have to consider . For the life of the Filipino Seaman abroad is susceptible to experience some things which are beyond his knowledge or expectation. Those things beyond the control of the Filipino Seaman working abroad, those things he doesn’t want to happen but it simply happen.

The life of the Filipino Seaman abroad is not a piece of cake. It is accompanied with tests and trials. But despite of those, the Filipino Seaman abroad doesn’t simply give up. He doesn’t care though how far he may go. He dares to venture the seas. The angry waves and the stormy days don’t threaten him. Even the sleepless nights and boredom don’t weaken him. He does nothing but just keep working. The Filipino Seaman abroad does it for no other reason than to provide the goodness for his family. This is the only thing where the strength of the Filipino Seaman abroad originates. Nothing can shatter him except to have a problem on his health. As it is his health that matters most to continue working.

The Filipino Seaman abroad is looking after for the happiness of his family. It is his pleasure to provide his family’s needs. But sometimes, the family goes beyond the limit. The family comes out of bounds and ends up with a high expenditures. So the Filipino Seaman abroad takes vacation and ends up in chaos financially. He has nothing but debt that forces him to go back to work abroad again. The worse thing that comes secondly with the health problem is that if this scene comes again and again each year.

This is the life of the Filipino Seaman abroad. So how do you see him? Does he deserve this after all, doesn’t he?

Submitted by:
Totskie- a Filipino Seaman Abroad

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