While there are no major hardships or challenges I have faced personally, there is something a hardship that affected my entire family. When I was in the ninth grade, I found out that my twelve-year-old sister had been self-harming herself. Finding out my little sister was hurting herself was the most devastating news I had ever received. She started cutting around the time I started public school, so evidently I blamed myself. I couldn’t accept the fact that my sister turned to a blade before she turned to me. Dealing with the guilt of what my sister had been going through was by far the most difficult hardship I have ever faced. I questioned whether I had made the right decision to go to stop being home schooled, I questioned whether I had
