I Was A Father 's Love Essay

It has been 18 years without a mother or even a father’s love. I have always felt a missing piece. I grew up wondering "why me? Was I not good enough? Did I not deserve their love?" Those lonely nights where I wish I had a mother’s nurturing love and fathers encouraging words. After many years have passed by I learned how to accept it. As most kids grow up with parents I was one of the millions of kids that were unfortunate. I never had the chance to call someone mom or dad, never had the ability to feel the love of a parent, or even know their face.
At the age of 5 I had realized that the two people that took me in as their own child was not my mother or father, but my great grandparents. As I could remember they raised me, loved me unconditionally, and made me the man I am today. At the time I was young and naive. I did not realize how much it affected me growing up knowing that my parents did not want me. I saw my great grandparents do everything a parent should do and be but, I still wonder how my life could of been. When I was in elementary school, I remember feeling like everyone else with two loving parents then slowly realizing I was not like everyone else. I was abandoned since birth. By not just one parent, but two. Starting at a young age, I never knew what a mother or a father was. Seeing other young kids my age, having parents care and love for them knowing I could never have that kind of love. Even hearing them call their parents mom and dad made me wish I…