College Essay On Adversity

Adversity isn’t a word I became familiar with until I realized how different my life was from my peers. Since preschool I attended a private catholic school. Most of my classmates grew up much wealthier than I was, however this never really bothered me. I may have had less money, my grandparents may have had to help pay for my tuition, and I even struggled with severe anxiety, depression, and testing anxiety, yet I wouldn’t say that is where my adversity is derived from. My hardships and difficulties in life come from the lack of stability at home.
To this day I struggle to remember a birthday, holiday or vacation that didn’t include a massive fight between my parents. My parents are good people, but different people. My father is hardworking. He puts food on the table, pays the bills, and provides any basic needs my siblings and I might have; however he has his faults. He drinks too much, in instances he has been psychically and emotionally abusive to …show more content…
When my parents would fight I would have to step in and physically split them apart. I would have to comfort my younger siblings and assure them things would work out. I would even at times have to kick my father out of my own house to protect my mom. As a child, I shouldn't have had to do that. I shouldn’t have had to kick my father out. I shouldn’t have had to assure my neighbors that everyone was okay and it was just a mere argument. I shouldn't have had to feel embarrassed to bring my friends over, I shouldn’t have had my birthdays, my siblings birthdays, holidays, and vacations filled with arguments and screaming matches. I definitely shouldn’t have had to threaten to take my siblings away and live somewhere else. However, I did. Despite all the chaos at home, despite all that my father did and said, despite my family’s financial difficulties, and despite my anxiety, depression, and testing difficulties, I overcame my