My Birth Mom Research Paper

Almost everyone has had a person in their life that has taken advantage of them and their kindness. That person may be someone who is not very important to them, or it could be a person that would have had a huge impact on them if the circumstances had been different. The person who took advantage of my juvenile naivety and my willingness to believe that everyone had good in them, was my birth mother. My birth mother is many things, and many of her qualities are considered desirable, such as her intelligence, beauty, and wittiness. However, she, like many others, also has poor qualities; but hers may be considered worse than others. She is selfish, my father first realized this when she left us when I was only 6 months old, she is an addict, …show more content…
I finally realized that her giving birth to me did not make her my mother, and that there was a huge difference between a birth mother and a motherly figure. Now that I am eighteen, eight years have passed since I came to the realization that she was too selfish to change. She is no longer a part of my life, and she rarely crosses my mind. Letting go of my mother was not something that came naturally to me, and it was a very extensive process. Getting closure is a choice, and I am more than grateful that I allowed myself to have …show more content…
Some lessons are large and life changing, while others are miniscule and hardly make a difference. I was ten when my mother taught me a life lesson that many people take years to grasp. The lesson that I learned was that I do not need anyone in my life that does not put forth an effort to be in it. Although I wish I would have learned this lesson at an older age, and not through the carelessness of my mother, I do acknowledge that if it weren’t for her, I could easily be like many of the people my age that are struggling to understand their self worth, and what they do and do not deserve. Because of this, I will be continuously grateful for my birthmother, and the way that she treated