Jono18
Jan 2, 2012
Undergraduate / Gay Brother - COMMON APP/ Significant Experience [12]
This is what i have so far for my Common App essay. Please tell me what you think. :Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
Throughout my eighteen years of life, I would have never anticipated that I would be in this situation. Not for the first time either, but for the third. As I stare at the computer screen, rereading those two words over and over again, I begin to reply back.
"I'm gay", stated my younger brother.
"I still love you", I typed, hoping he knew I meant every word.
Accepting that my younger brother, Jody, is gay was never a problem for me. He and I are the closest out of all our other siblings, sharing almost everything with each other. Even our names are one in the same. I was nervous though about Jody coming out to our family and friends. Just because I am open to who he is, I could not assume everyone else would be as well. Most of our family members had no problems with it; my mother and sisters even stated that they knew all along. My little brother was relieved but also still fearful, for he does not want his own mother to find out just yet.
You see, Jody is my half-brother. We have the same father (also named Jody), but different mothers. My mom sees him as her own son, and would accept any of us for who we truly are. Jody's mother, however, is an entirely different story. We fear she will be a lot less understanding and accepting.
This is what i have so far for my Common App essay. Please tell me what you think. :Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
Throughout my eighteen years of life, I would have never anticipated that I would be in this situation. Not for the first time either, but for the third. As I stare at the computer screen, rereading those two words over and over again, I begin to reply back.
"I'm gay", stated my younger brother.
"I still love you", I typed, hoping he knew I meant every word.
Accepting that my younger brother, Jody, is gay was never a problem for me. He and I are the closest out of all our other siblings, sharing almost everything with each other. Even our names are one in the same. I was nervous though about Jody coming out to our family and friends. Just because I am open to who he is, I could not assume everyone else would be as well. Most of our family members had no problems with it; my mother and sisters even stated that they knew all along. My little brother was relieved but also still fearful, for he does not want his own mother to find out just yet.
You see, Jody is my half-brother. We have the same father (also named Jody), but different mothers. My mom sees him as her own son, and would accept any of us for who we truly are. Jody's mother, however, is an entirely different story. We fear she will be a lot less understanding and accepting.