My life has had enough ups and downs, it’s an equivalent to a daredevil rollercoaster: living through emotional trauma, mental illness, verbal abuse, five-year-long divorce with my parents, and lots of moving. In the span of 19 years, it was a very dragging battle for me, but all of these events helped me up to this moment in my life. They gave me my current mind set on life, my plan to go where I want in life and those I want to help. In the beginning, the first six or seven years of my life were easy going: living up in the sticks of New York. I had a big backyard with a dog and my two older brothers. My mother was a very sweet, quirky person. One of my favorite earliest memories is when my mom would sway the steering wheel across an empty road to the rhythm of Yellow Submarine by The Beatles or would do donuts with her SUV in an empty parking lot with the first the first drop of fresh snow. Things were happy till about 2004 when my
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The first move was in autumn of 2006 from the town I was raised in, Barryville over to one of the neighboring towns, Eldred. Two years later in the summer, my family of four left the house and moved to the outskirts of the Village of Monticello which was the last place I lived before moving out to Minnesota. The biggest move was of January 2009; a total of 1,200 miles from Sullivan County, NY to Maplewood, MN. After the first month or so of living out here, things were much happier. My mental health was improving, grades went back up; even my mom was happy again. It wasn’t easy to be out here originally and even though my mental health improved; that doesn’t mean that every problem I struggled with vanished. Every now and then I still had a bad mental health day and would need to take a break from whatever stress I was caught up in. The following year later in the summer, the divorce was finalized between my
The first move was in autumn of 2006 from the town I was raised in, Barryville over to one of the neighboring towns, Eldred. Two years later in the summer, my family of four left the house and moved to the outskirts of the Village of Monticello which was the last place I lived before moving out to Minnesota. The biggest move was of January 2009; a total of 1,200 miles from Sullivan County, NY to Maplewood, MN. After the first month or so of living out here, things were much happier. My mental health was improving, grades went back up; even my mom was happy again. It wasn’t easy to be out here originally and even though my mental health improved; that doesn’t mean that every problem I struggled with vanished. Every now and then I still had a bad mental health day and would need to take a break from whatever stress I was caught up in. The following year later in the summer, the divorce was finalized between my