“Things always have a way of figuring themselves out.” That’s what my dad always would tell me when I was younger which, in a way, relates my life to Jeannette Walls’ in The Glass Castle. He told me that whether or not things had problems over time or in a matter of seconds, they would always figure themselves out. I carry those words with me as a reminder that things for me were really hard at one point, but in the end they figured themselves out. My parents divorced when I was twelve years old, and just headed into 7th grade. It was a supremely trying time in my life for my emotions, and I didn’t see an end to the anger and sadness in sight once the divorce started. Even though my dad told me that things would always get better, I couldn’t
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It almost seemed normal that when we were eating dinner that I would always retreat to the basement, since I knew that a fight between my parents was eminent. Furthermore, it would be a normal thing for me to be having phone calls with friends and have to leave the room so that I could hear them over my parents bickering at each other. So, I learned bad habits of keeping to myself and not speaking to my dad who, I thought at the time, was creating most of these problems. But one night, the very life that I had changed in an …show more content…
My mom packed some things up and went to stay in a hotel until she was able to rent an apartment. There were a lot of nights that followed with tears and anger from every member of my family. I never really realized the emotional toll that this all would have on my life until I experienced it first hand. Then the legal terms started to fly at my sister and I with requirements like every other weekend having to be with my mom and the other weekdays and weekends with my dad. I also was required to do this until I was an adult, but I never minded that because I never hated either of my parents for what happened. In fact, I believe that some of the changes from their divorce bettered me in the end, just like Jeanette in The Glass
It almost seemed normal that when we were eating dinner that I would always retreat to the basement, since I knew that a fight between my parents was eminent. Furthermore, it would be a normal thing for me to be having phone calls with friends and have to leave the room so that I could hear them over my parents bickering at each other. So, I learned bad habits of keeping to myself and not speaking to my dad who, I thought at the time, was creating most of these problems. But one night, the very life that I had changed in an …show more content…
My mom packed some things up and went to stay in a hotel until she was able to rent an apartment. There were a lot of nights that followed with tears and anger from every member of my family. I never really realized the emotional toll that this all would have on my life until I experienced it first hand. Then the legal terms started to fly at my sister and I with requirements like every other weekend having to be with my mom and the other weekdays and weekends with my dad. I also was required to do this until I was an adult, but I never minded that because I never hated either of my parents for what happened. In fact, I believe that some of the changes from their divorce bettered me in the end, just like Jeanette in The Glass