Choosing What to Fight For
Over time people tend to lose family members, but most losses are due to death. When I was in my junior year of high school not only did I realize that you can lose a family member another way I was the deciding factor for who I lost. With difficulty, I chose to leave because I was doing it for my own good. Even though I lost most of my blood family including both my sisters, I lost all connections and celebrations, I will forever chose to be good to myself and to treat myself with respect and not be downgraded.
As a junior I was not thinking that I would be getting a call that my mom had financial difficulty and was to the point where she was getting the car repossessed and where she not only wrote one bad check …show more content…
It was around 9:30 at night and I had my nose in the textbook trying to cram as much last minute information in as possible. All of a sudden my uncle comes into my room and drags me by my hair into the living room. No warning, no explanation, the whole time I was trying to figure out what I did wrong. Once in the living room and seated on the floor, like a young child, I was told to not talk or I would be punished. I did not know what the punishment entailed. I was scared and because I was just dragged with my hair I did not …show more content…
All of a sudden I just heard the stinging of a slap to a face. It didn’t register that I had just been slapped by my aunt until I felt the sting on my cheek. She told me that I was disrespectful for not talking to her and for hanging my head. I was so stunned that I just sat there mute. Nothing would come out of my mouth. A few minutes passed and my grandparents came into the house. They looked at me like I was just gum on the bottom of your shoe, trash on the side of the road. There was no love, there was no pity, there was just hate and
Over time people tend to lose family members, but most losses are due to death. When I was in my junior year of high school not only did I realize that you can lose a family member another way I was the deciding factor for who I lost. With difficulty, I chose to leave because I was doing it for my own good. Even though I lost most of my blood family including both my sisters, I lost all connections and celebrations, I will forever chose to be good to myself and to treat myself with respect and not be downgraded.
As a junior I was not thinking that I would be getting a call that my mom had financial difficulty and was to the point where she was getting the car repossessed and where she not only wrote one bad check …show more content…
It was around 9:30 at night and I had my nose in the textbook trying to cram as much last minute information in as possible. All of a sudden my uncle comes into my room and drags me by my hair into the living room. No warning, no explanation, the whole time I was trying to figure out what I did wrong. Once in the living room and seated on the floor, like a young child, I was told to not talk or I would be punished. I did not know what the punishment entailed. I was scared and because I was just dragged with my hair I did not …show more content…
All of a sudden I just heard the stinging of a slap to a face. It didn’t register that I had just been slapped by my aunt until I felt the sting on my cheek. She told me that I was disrespectful for not talking to her and for hanging my head. I was so stunned that I just sat there mute. Nothing would come out of my mouth. A few minutes passed and my grandparents came into the house. They looked at me like I was just gum on the bottom of your shoe, trash on the side of the road. There was no love, there was no pity, there was just hate and