My Experience Of My Past

Knowing my Future by Looking at my Past In my English 251 class at College of the Sequoias, a question I was asked was, “Why are you here?” I was asked that question about five times and finally had an epiphany. I didn’t know how I realized I wanted to be a mechanic until I went through this exercise. It wasn’t long ago when my father finally decided it was time to leave. I was about fourteen years old when he left, and it was four days after my birthday. At four in the morning, my mom woke me up and told me that my dad wanted to tell me something. When I got to the kitchen he was standing there with look I’ve never seen before. What he said was,” I’m leaving. I can’t be here anymore.” When I asked why all he said was that he no longer loved my mom. I was sad to hear he no longer wanted to be part of our life, but I tried not to care. I use it more as motivation to prove to people that I can do something good with my life. My dad would always tell my mom …show more content…
I was 15 years old and my first job was working in field labor. I really didn’t know what more to expect for my first day. My mom said we were just going to clean weeds around tomatoes which seemed easy. I’d say the hardest part was getting out of bed in the morning. When we got to the tomato field, it was still early for us to start so I just got out of the car to stretch. It was so fresh so I thought it was going to be like that the whole day. Well, I was wrong, three hours passed and the sun was up. It was starting to get really hot and it was bad because around us there was no shade. I noticed all these old people working with no problem, so I used it as motivation. On the way home from work, I started to think to myself. I realized that I’m not going to work there all my life. I also didn’t want my mom to be working there. My goal was to graduate from high school, go straight to college, work and help my mom with anything I