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| Me(on the left) with my daughter and my wife |
Hi! If you're new to my blog welcome!!! Let me give you a brief introduction of myself. My name is Brian Luciano, 44 years old and working as an Online English Teacher. I live in a one bedroom apartment with my wife of 9 years (Mau) and our lovely daughter, Pia, (2 years old). I have been working this job for almost 9 years now. This is not my dream job however.
I have always wanted to be a writer. As a young boy, I grew up reading American comic books which somehow helped me develop my speaking and reading skills. I was always enamored with the stories of Spider-man, Superman,Batman, etc. I spent a lot on my massive comic book haul. For me, this was my escape to realms unknown. These stories formed into my mind, and one day I told myself I wanted to write my own stories. This was my dream job.
My comic book collection became on and off, until I wasn't that eager anymore. Possibly because the comic stories were not that as appealing as it was before. I now searched for new stories to pick up on. Television, movies, documentaries, magazines and other publications became my sources, which further sharpened my talents. But unlike when I was reading comics on a regular basis, the stories and ideas became very jumbled that I wasn't able to write anything. Not to mention an increase in workload and a new role of being a father, this simple faded away.
It was on the 26th of February 2016 that my life changed. I was raised Catholic until that day. Everyday, I taught that I was living a Christian life. Until that fateful year of 2015 when my family suffered economic hardships bought about by the transition of our life as parents. My wife had to quite her job to take care of our baby, leaving me the sole person working. We then moved out into a cheaper place to stay. It was an uphill struggle for us. I even have to do part time work in the office just to make ends meet. My mom and my in-laws helped us with my daughter's first birthday party, and I knew that everything was ok. It was December of 2015 that I noticed that there is something wrong in my life. There was this emptiness that I felt. That stems from the fact that I was living without Jesus Christ. I decided to follow him, but not immediately.
It took me 42 years of my life to find him. I studied the bible and little by little got to know him. But there was something missing. My wife has not yet accepted Jesus Christ as her savior, but she was ok with the idea of us not anymore attending Catholic Church masses. Yes, we stopped being Catholics around May of 2016. It took her until around June of that year to be converted. We finally looked for a church to have fellowship with.
We got into one of the mega churches here in the Philippines. At first, we thought that it was good until after just 3 Sundays we noticed that we were not growing in the faith in Christ. We decided to change churches. We instead went to our landlady's church. We also studied the bible by ourselves and have regular sharing topics with the bible.
So that's me in a nutshell. I will try to be more liberal in this page and talk more about topics that I want to talk about. It can be my interests or even topics that I discovered as I read. Anyway, thanks for supporting my blog.
BRIAN LUCIANO
JUNE 27,2017
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