Family Essay: My Family Is Everything In My Life

They say family is everything. Personally, I would have to agree with this statement, considering the family in my life now and in the picture paper clipped to this essay. Family is everything to me. Without my family, past and present I wouldn’t be where I am today. I would not be taking all AP classes my senior year. I would not be going to college for seven years. I definitely would not be dreaming of becoming a politician when I get older. My family has shaped my life, whether they have recognized it or not. I am blessed with a big and long living family. This picture is about five generations of my family. Five generations who have been through immigration, war, and a lot of mistakes, but no family is perfect. Although most families are not as stubborn as my family. The family in my …show more content…
Not as many stories to tell, but some very important life lessons. For example he taught me one great lesson that unfortunately has great consequences for him. A lesson that in today’s society is very important, which is to not give rides to people who are known do drugs. This lesson is important for him and me because he did exactly that and the man hid the drugs in his car by the passenger seat. The next school day they searched for drugs in the entire school parking lot. This was during his senior year, he had already signed for college and was going to get a very good scholarship for baseball. From this one mistake in his life he had to give it all up. He didn’t get to go to college with the scholarship, if he had went to college he would have had to pay for it himself, and would not have played baseball, something he loved at the time. But he persevered got a job he semi enjoyed (who really loves to work every day?), a family he could love endlessly, and still got to play some baseball with retired MLB players. Back on topic he is the generation who taught me so many lessons. Lessons that can still be applied