How Does Childhood Affect Our Life

How does our childhood affect our lives? With every experience and action in our youth, it leads to a new knowledge that contributes to not only our childhood but our future positively or negatively. We don’t even know it, we soak it up unintentionally as these experiences help guide our personality and character as well as a new way of thinking, like David McCullough, and his desire to tell a true story of others experiences that shaped real people.
I personally believe there are traumatic and happy experiences, but both can affect a person positively in a way forever. I for one, and like many others have gone through a sad memory and involvement, yet I truly believe it helped shape me into the person I am today. The story that began a rollercoaster of my life changed me and I no longer see it as a negative experience but a …show more content…
I don’t remember too much about that night except being disappointed about my birthday and crying to a point my siblings got annoyed. My dad never came back to the condo at night and we ended up flying home the next day from Florida and not seeing my dad for months, where I learned he was drinking again in Florida and he left to go to a bar to settle his anger after the argument. I remember feeling self loathing and pity for a while but now it's easy to tell this story because it doesn't affect me the way it used to, for I thought that was the start of having a sad life but really I learned so much from the experience. Now I've seen worse things, read worse things and lived worse things but I will never think of that as a traumatic experience ever again. It makes no sense to self pity but makes more sense to keep going and to apply experiences like that to something good. People think I’m crazy when I think that what happened to me at thirteen was a learning moment, but I love to tell it to show people how someone can apply change in our lives. We have to learn to