It is said that you should live life to the fullest and stress free, but when you have so many obstacles to face it is hard to think positive and stay happy. Not everyones’ life is the same, some have it easy, some have it hard, but that does not mean you can’t achieve your life goals and change how you used to live before by making the right decisions. The same thing goes to Dr. Ben Carson, a man who lived in poverty and had rough times from his childhood up to his high school years; he grew up without a father, a mother who was not that well educated and worked job to job providing for her family, and racism. The same for my parents when they first came to America 25 years ago. When my father first came, he had no money and no place to sleep;
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They always put me in nice dresses and kept me looking well; around that time we were living in an apartment, very low maintenance and run down, the area was not good either but that is where our first store was. The store was bringing in money but only enough to run our everyday lives. Around four years old I started kindergarten and used to go in bus; we only had one car and my mother didn’t have a license then only my father did. It was not until four years later my parents bought a two story house when I was about eight years old. Dr. Carson had a very rough childhood; with growing up without a father and a mother who would go get help from a psychologist. Dr. Carson and his brother had to live with their mother sister in an apartment that was very filthy and unlivable, but him and his brother had not choice but to live over there until his mother was able to buy their house back. Dr. Carson school experience was not good either, would get constantly bullied for being dumb and failing all of his tests; but his mother was very supportive and told him that he can do it and made him memorize the multiplication tables and have a one page report written at the end of the week of a book he read and that really helped him get his grades
They always put me in nice dresses and kept me looking well; around that time we were living in an apartment, very low maintenance and run down, the area was not good either but that is where our first store was. The store was bringing in money but only enough to run our everyday lives. Around four years old I started kindergarten and used to go in bus; we only had one car and my mother didn’t have a license then only my father did. It was not until four years later my parents bought a two story house when I was about eight years old. Dr. Carson had a very rough childhood; with growing up without a father and a mother who would go get help from a psychologist. Dr. Carson and his brother had to live with their mother sister in an apartment that was very filthy and unlivable, but him and his brother had not choice but to live over there until his mother was able to buy their house back. Dr. Carson school experience was not good either, would get constantly bullied for being dumb and failing all of his tests; but his mother was very supportive and told him that he can do it and made him memorize the multiplication tables and have a one page report written at the end of the week of a book he read and that really helped him get his grades