Personal Narrative Analysis

Life is like a ball game, you often get thrown curveballs when least expected, regardless of the situation you have to stay in the box, you can’t strike out. In a family a child has the privilege of being raised in a household with both their parents, raised in circumstances where only one parent is present, or sometimes live in a situation where there is no parent at all. Luckily in my case I am fortunate enough to have been born in a household in where both my parents are present. However, due to curveballs life hits us with, for a portion of my life I was one of those children who had to grow up with only one parent. In 2012 my mother received a phone call that her brother had passed away, she quickly gathered her belongings and flew directly to Mexico to attend the devastating event with the rest of her family. Everything was fine… for a week or two, then my father sat me, a thirteen …show more content…
As I heard this I thought it was a joke, how could my mom, my best friend, not be coming back until a year from now, how could she not attend my 8th grade promotion in which she promised she would be watching me from the front seats. As a part of me was lost I knew I had to play strong for my mother who was devastated by the death of her brother and the separation she now had from her children, but also for my little brother who always looked up to me. Instead of falling hard and “striking out” like many would, this experience helped me grow stronger as a person. From this I learned how to become independent and how to overcome hard