have changed my life, but they all lead back to the one situation I have learned the most from. Before the devastating news, my life wasn’t perfect, but it was incredibly better than it was about to be. Family was the most important thing in my life and to realize it was falling apart was terribly rough on me. My parent’s divorce was an intense, messy, and angry time in my life. There is no doubt that it molded me into the thick skinned and forgiving person I am today. Mom and Dad broke the news
” My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” Being a rancher's child can be both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it creates hard work, ethic, integrity, and good strong values. It's a curse because you only socialize with animals. We can't call in sick to work or take a vacation. It is 24/7 for life, we have to keep on working no matter the circumstances because we don't desert our job. My parents weren't scared to give me responsibility, they knew
they got engaged to the love of their life, lots of happiness and hope for the future comes into your mind. But for me it was a day of fear, worry, and thoughts that the future is undetermined. Everything in my life was going good. I was healthy I had a really Nice house , enough money to live on, the most amazing parents, and a great boyfriend that loved me. Everything was normal. When you think of my life you think of an average family who had a great life in beautiful Portland, Oregon.
makes you becomes a better person.War brings the best of you in order to survive.Through my teen years I faced the never ending mexican narco war.During this period I survived many near to death experiences.Cried myself to sleep multiple times hoping this war would be over.I sacrificed not being to see my family for two years on a daily basis.I faced discrimination from U.S customs and border patrol officers on a daily basis.War not only brought the best of me,but made adapt to a resilient mentally in
On Sunday of memorial weekend 2014 my life changed. That weekend I was home with my dad. We went kayaking for four hours that day. After coming home to get changed, we went to subway to eat. When we got back home, my dad fell asleep. I was in my room trying to sleep when the phone rang. I came out of my room, he was on the phone with my mom. I sat down on the couch, and I smelt something burning. So I asked my dad, if he was cooking anything. He said no. We got up to investigate the smell
America known as El Salvador. They moved to Houston, Texas to start a better life for their family. His family lived in El Salvador when the country was in a civil war. The soldiers barged into Artiga’s grandparents house and shot his uncle with a machine gun. The soldiers left his uncle there and threatened the rest of his family they would be next if they did not leave the country. His family came to America to start a new life. Artiga was born in Houston, Texas when his parents were in poverty. They
positive or another, negatively, until we die. Whether it were to be a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, teacher, scout leader, coach, employer or someone who isn’t known personally; one or many make a difference in how people live their life; the things people do and how they approach simple or even complex situations. For example if one week was really stressing you out and your friends and you were going to have a party that Friday night and since a lot of
Life. This thing that you are handed that is full of chaos. It is thrown in our face and we are told to deal with it. The times that we want it most are the times when it is good, when we are getting what we want. But when the confusion and crazy of life is handed to us we run in fear. We don’t know how to deal with the wrath of life. Some can deal with it, others can’t. The way we deal with it is all different. What is life? Life is like a hat, one filled with tiny pieces of paper that we draw
something special about my birthday. I have yet to find what that is. Anyways, I am the second born of six siblings. I didn’t live in Haiti for long, and moved into the United States for reasons I still yet to fully know of. My mother told me the reason was regarding the safety of my father. My childhood and early elementary is still a blur for me. I have little remembrance of what I did during that time. I remember biting my entire finger nail off and not getting along with most of my classmates. Apparently
In the reading for Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson (1999), fathers are analyzed by their roles in their son’s lives. Many boys have troubles with their dad that correlate with their behavior in school and at home. Most issues I read about had some aspect that seemed to relate to my relationship with my father. I found that the most significant idea I read was how boys tend to want to raise their children better than their own fathers, yet have