Personal Narrative: Money, Like Emotions

I was once read somewhere that “money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” You might be wondering how can I compare money and emotions. It was a point in my life that I had nowhere to lay my head or put food on my stomach because my family didn’t have any money. My mother would always say “don’t worry about what were are going through just focus on your school work, to avoid situations like this, don’t have babies early, you have plenty of time for that and make sure you have a well-paying job so you can support yourself. I won’t always be here to take care of you, and nobody can take care of like you can”. As a little I didn’t understand what my mother was saying to me, but the older I’ve gotten …show more content…
I would come back to stay with them when my mother was going through a hardship. When I was six or seven my mother decided to keep me with her while she struggled. She didn’t want to divide her children anymore. She finally had all three of her children under the same roof. At this particular time, we were staying at my brother’s grandmother house. One night her and her boyfriend got into a huge argument about giving his mother money for rent. My mother felt cheated as if she shouldn’t have to pay so much money in rent, we only had a certain amount of time we could live there, she was only working a part time job plus she still have three children to take care of. Sometime in the night my mother packed me and my brothers up and took us to a shelter. Where would stay for a few weeks, we didn’t feel safe there but my mother was only working a part time job, she didn’t have enough money to find a decent place for us to stay. We stayed at the shelter for a few weeks until my grandfather came from North Carolina and we would stay with him, until my mother got a better job and saved enough money to move into her own …show more content…
I’ve went to three elementary schools, five middle schools and three high schools. After my ninth grade year, I can to stay with my grandparents until today. Living with my grandparents these last three years I’ve learned about saving my money to get the things I really need. My grandmother always says “it’s always a blessing to buy the things you want, but you can’t forget about what you actually need”. I think there has to be a balance to everything you can’t spend more than you’ve saved. I believe teaching your children at a young age about financial literacy is a good thing. So when they get to a certain age and they can make their own financial decisions wisely. If our children have an understanding on finances, they can avoid situations like the ones I went through as a child or they can have better ways to fix the mistakes they