Becoming Me
Who am I? That is a question people ask themselves every day. I can honestly say that when I wake up and look in the mirror, I am happy with whom I have become to this point in my life. I am a better person than I once was with a lot left to learn and live for. You don’t become who you are overnight, it takes years of life experience’s some good, some bad. Some of us have an easier road than others, either by choice or bad luck, I believe it’s how you play the cards that are dealt to you that matters most. Here is the story of my life, one that I have taken a huge gamble on many times.
I grew up in your typical American household with my younger brother, my mom, and dad. Lawn was freshly cut every week, two nice cars in the driveway, both parents had good jobs, my brother and I played sports throughout our childhood. From the outside, we seemed not to have any flaws and our life was perfect. Inside the home was a different story. My earliest memories are of my parents always fighting and yelling my dad had a bit of an anger problem that was triggered very easily. I can remember just sitting in …show more content…
She is everything to me, my main motivation to continue to live a sober life. I decided to go back to school full time as I work nights to make a better life for my family. I use my past experiences in life as the blueprint for the person I want to be, to myself and my child. I work on not getting so angry at little things and talking things out instead of yelling and fighting I do not want my child to grow up in a house full of anger and negative energy. I spend most of my time with my daughter or working out in the gym, it helps keep my mind busy. I love going outdoors and playing sports I recently started sky diving a couple weekends a month it gives me that rush feeling of being superman I once felt before but in a different
Who am I? That is a question people ask themselves every day. I can honestly say that when I wake up and look in the mirror, I am happy with whom I have become to this point in my life. I am a better person than I once was with a lot left to learn and live for. You don’t become who you are overnight, it takes years of life experience’s some good, some bad. Some of us have an easier road than others, either by choice or bad luck, I believe it’s how you play the cards that are dealt to you that matters most. Here is the story of my life, one that I have taken a huge gamble on many times.
I grew up in your typical American household with my younger brother, my mom, and dad. Lawn was freshly cut every week, two nice cars in the driveway, both parents had good jobs, my brother and I played sports throughout our childhood. From the outside, we seemed not to have any flaws and our life was perfect. Inside the home was a different story. My earliest memories are of my parents always fighting and yelling my dad had a bit of an anger problem that was triggered very easily. I can remember just sitting in …show more content…
She is everything to me, my main motivation to continue to live a sober life. I decided to go back to school full time as I work nights to make a better life for my family. I use my past experiences in life as the blueprint for the person I want to be, to myself and my child. I work on not getting so angry at little things and talking things out instead of yelling and fighting I do not want my child to grow up in a house full of anger and negative energy. I spend most of my time with my daughter or working out in the gym, it helps keep my mind busy. I love going outdoors and playing sports I recently started sky diving a couple weekends a month it gives me that rush feeling of being superman I once felt before but in a different