Significant Setback/Challenge/Opportunity Essay:
One major set back in my life, was when my mom went to prison. I was living with my step dad at the time, so to say, in our trailer. My mom was away for about a year, and she went to a halfway house for another year following her release. This time was very hard on me, not being able to see my mother was sickening, but I made the best of it. My step dad was the only person in my entire life, besides my mother, that cared about me. My biological father left when I was young, about 5 or so, I tried to get in contact with my father during the time my mom was gone, but I could not get a hold of him, so I assume he wants nothing to do with me.
Before my mother got to come home from the halfway house my step dad died from lung cancer, it killed me when I found out. I went to school like just another day, but something was different that day. I went to school that day, just as I did any other; it was raining on the way to school. I have made my peace with it, but I had felt some kind of uneasiness that day. I went home, when I walked through the door everyone was sitting in the living room, I knew before anyone ever told me what had happened. I walked quietly to my room and began to cry. That was kind of wired to me because I have hardly ever cried in my whole life. It took a very long time for me to make peace with this and move on. I just could not interpret the fact that he was gone, and there was no thing I could do.
I had just turned 11 at the time, I was strong through this time, and it taught me a lot. I have learned how to deal with problems better, to be strong and think clearly through the hard times, and not to just go off and do something stupid. It serves no point to go off and hurt yourself or anyone else, would someone you love want you to go off and do something stupid or get hurt in the process. I never really thought things through or about them very clearly, until this moment in my life. It put my life in perspective, I saw things clearly for the first time, my thought process changed, it had affected me deeply. If not for that moment in my life I don't really know where I would be right now. Sometimes the bad things in life are blessings, and we do not even realize it.
Im not the best at writing, its acctully my worst subject, but tell me what yall think! thanks!
One major set back in my life, was when my mom went to prison. I was living with my step dad at the time, so to say, in our trailer. My mom was away for about a year, and she went to a halfway house for another year following her release. This time was very hard on me, not being able to see my mother was sickening, but I made the best of it. My step dad was the only person in my entire life, besides my mother, that cared about me. My biological father left when I was young, about 5 or so, I tried to get in contact with my father during the time my mom was gone, but I could not get a hold of him, so I assume he wants nothing to do with me.
Before my mother got to come home from the halfway house my step dad died from lung cancer, it killed me when I found out. I went to school like just another day, but something was different that day. I went to school that day, just as I did any other; it was raining on the way to school. I have made my peace with it, but I had felt some kind of uneasiness that day. I went home, when I walked through the door everyone was sitting in the living room, I knew before anyone ever told me what had happened. I walked quietly to my room and began to cry. That was kind of wired to me because I have hardly ever cried in my whole life. It took a very long time for me to make peace with this and move on. I just could not interpret the fact that he was gone, and there was no thing I could do.
I had just turned 11 at the time, I was strong through this time, and it taught me a lot. I have learned how to deal with problems better, to be strong and think clearly through the hard times, and not to just go off and do something stupid. It serves no point to go off and hurt yourself or anyone else, would someone you love want you to go off and do something stupid or get hurt in the process. I never really thought things through or about them very clearly, until this moment in my life. It put my life in perspective, I saw things clearly for the first time, my thought process changed, it had affected me deeply. If not for that moment in my life I don't really know where I would be right now. Sometimes the bad things in life are blessings, and we do not even realize it.
Im not the best at writing, its acctully my worst subject, but tell me what yall think! thanks!