Personal Narrative: Compensation

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Compensation Life is not easy, it’s like a roller-coaster, problems take you down and successes take you up. My family and I faced the roller-coaster going down when we immigrated to the US 18 years ago. I remembered my brother, sister and I refusing to come. But we had no control over that, my dad had taken the decision to bring us here for a better opportunity in life. Like most people say, to live the “American dream.” Definitely did not felt like a nice dream; it was more like a nightmare. First we were deprived of basic living amenities…. We slept the first two days in our car, did it know any English and were no used to live in a city. Later our situation changed and got better. “You never know what you have, until you lose it.” That’s

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