Personal statement from sophomore in high school - small town (Vallejo)

Hello, I'm a sophomore in high school trying to start my personal statement but I'm just not so sure were to start... i plan on writing mine on prompt #1 "Describe the world you come from- for examples, your family, community, or school- and tell us how your world shaped your dreams and aspirations. " i know for a fact in my statement i want to mention some of the following:

-How i come from a small town (Vallejo) in which has a lot of violence and gang related activities and i have been able to become one of the few to not get involved with it, but although I "live above" I still plain to escape this town and explore whats outside of this four walls.

-How it was hard growing-up and watching my parents fight mentally emotionally and physically
-how there divorce was hard on both me and my brother but i had to hold all my pain in, because i had to be the shoulder my brother cried on

-how my parents are still fighting over who gets the kids in the divorce
-me not having anyone in the family really to talk to about how i feel
-both of my parents being currently unemployed
-how I'm told over and over a cant mess up because I'm not only a role-model for my brother but also my half sister, step brother, step sisters, and cousins(who happen to live with my mother)

-the tragic recent deaths on my fathers side of the family (grandma, grandpa and 2 great grandmothers)
>my grandma being the only person I'm really close to in the family
-my family in the Philippines dying (me not knowing them well but seeing my mother and grandma cry and hearing there stores)
-having not only 2 parents but also step parent trying to replace your other parent.
-DEPRESSION!
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! I have a lot to say but I'm just not so sure how start it/ put it in a essay!?!

-How it was hard growing-up and watching my parents fight mentally emotionally and physically
-how there divorce was hard on both me and my brother but i had to hold all my pain in, because i had to be the shoulder my brother cried on

-how my parents are still fighting over who gets the kids in the divorce

These three are definitely strong, and you can tie all three in together! I think this would be a great essay if you used descriptive language and set the scene right off the bat instead of following the usual format and repeating the question.

Good luck!!

I think this is a great sentence. Great writing...

Oh, now that I read the topics, I you have a lot of pain in your family. When lots of family members are in pain, bad things can happen, so be careful! Pain spreads, contagious like a virus. It might spread from your parent to you or from you to your friend. I think I may have accidentally spread some pain yesterday when I lost my patience with someone after someone else had lost their patience with me!

Anyway, these are not topics to include in a personal statement. It is okay to mention the circumstances, but the PS is supposed to be about your PLAN. It is your statement to explain what you are doing. So read about work being done in fields that interest you, and choose your career.

Not only that, but choose your specialization within that career.

Then, you will be ready to write the PS and escape from this town to explore what is waiting.