Personal Narrative: John's Relationship With My Father

John and I are sitting in our living room, as I’m trying to figure out how to interview someone I already know when a life alert commercial comes on the television. We start joking about it like we always would, but then John says, “Haha, I tried to get my dad one of those.” Johns relationship with his Dad is unlike any relationship I know or have. Despite him not living with him and not being able to see him all of the time like he ideally would. For an early part of his life John Polk Senior was in prison. Sometime following his release when John was in the third grade his parents started going through a divorce. “That was probably the most significant thing to happen to me honestly, like that changed my whole life completely.” John said, “But even though I wasn’t old enough to really remember seeing my Dad in prison, talking to him and seeing how much his life changed from that taught me so much.”
John Polk Senior was living a lavish lifestyle when his whole world was torn apart and was sentenced to prison. By the time he was sentenced he had already done so much with his life, more than some do in a lifetime. “Everything that happened to him really put life in perspective for me.” It taught him that your life can completely change in a matter of seconds. After his dad was released he got the taste of an …show more content…
He has helped her develop and expand her real estate agency in Plano, through his expertise and skills in the computer world. After John Polk Seniors diagnosis, she begun to resent herself for what she did to him. How she cheated on him and turned his life into a wreaking havoc. She helped pay to get him back on life and health insurance, and get him to the doctors necessary to get him the treatment that he needed. They have reconnected in a sense, are now again best friends. This unique reconnection between exes has been a difficult situation to cope with as the son