My Mother And My Family

I come from a long line of hard-working people. On my mother’s side, my great grandmother came to the United States from Sweden. My maternal grandmother married the sheriff of the town which set up a strict and rule-abiding household for my mother and her siblings. My grandmother and grandfather were divorced by the time my mother had me which I believe plays a role in the relationships of my mother and her siblings. My mother has a brother as well as a sister. All three of them have been married and divorced twice, including my mother and my father. This could be due to the way they interpreted their parents relationship growing up, as well as their lack of religious faith. My father and his family were the complete opposite. His family was …show more content…
I was born into an average white and middle class family. I am an only child with no brothers or sisters. Growing up my family was never very religious until I entered middle school. We began going to a local Methodist church in which my parents became heavily involved. Fast forward 4 years, my mother gets a promotion which causes us to move from Florida to Georgia. Once moving to Georgia we did not attend any church which upset my father. He would preach to my mother and I every night which eventually led to their divorce soon after …show more content…
However, she had struggled through the same issues with college when she was younger and knew it was best to just support me. My father has never attended college so he was supportive from the beginning of what I chose to do since he doesn’t know what changing my major a year before graduation entails. With the support of my parents behind me I knew I could have the courage to take that leap and stop what I had been studying for three years and enter a whole new field. One of my favorite quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald states “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want…I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” This is what I look at on days that I feel like I may have made a mistake and should have gone with the safer