Personal Narrative-Foster Home

Improved Essays
Intro- Sometimes somebody hurts you so much, it stops hurting at all. Until something makes you feel again and then it all comes back. Every word, every hurt, every moment. How could you ever understand where I come from? Even if you ask, even if you listen, you don’t really hear or see or feel. My past defines me. This is who I am. I am unseen, unheard and unwanted. That is what I am, if even I am anything at all. Reflecting- The sun comes up every morning, but do you know where? For me each place it's somewhere different. It’s hard to find East when you keep moving around, but at least it comes, it always comes. I've come to depend on that. Being in my 4th foster home, I’ve become lost in the sorrow of my soul, unable to see the light, unable to see the dawn. Everything seems so much like nothing compared to the feeling of wanting to see your mum smile again. Effortlessly allowing her joy to consume you as you reflectively smile back. How can you tell me It will be okay? I’ve heard many promises, all sounding the same. But push hard enough and they always prove to be empty. (connecting lines to next paragraph) …show more content…
Bouncing of each wall within hell, the joy seemed almost unrecognizable. Nothing was how it was supposed to be. Deeper and deeper I fell within myself and nothing could show me out, well until now.

I know I’m helpless, dependent and desperate but what happens when those you need the most threaten your very existence? That instilled thought caused retaliation

Conclusion- Slowly seasons change around me. Feet safe, roots starting to grow and little buds of hope appearing. This my past, my story, is not my fault. It’s not because of me and doesn’t have to be what defines my future. I am loveable, I am worthy of care and that glimmer of light, it makes all the difference. Those who tell you otherwise are too afraid within themselves to explore outside of their

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Headline: After a Troubled Child Is Left at a Foster Home, What Happens Next Will Shock You. Summary: One child came from a broken home, and the foster care system failed to help her. When it seemed like hope was completely gone, a sudden miracle happened that surprised everyone. Introduction: Zoe was only 9 years old when she was first left at a foster home.…

    • 1033 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    We walk silently on the beach, I stare at my feet to make sure I don't step on anything or anyone. The last thing I want is to be the bearer of death. I steer my way around and feel the broken shells beneath my feet, I remember when I was little and the smashed shells would make my feet ache and turn them red, they still hurt but my feet grow stronger as I grow older. I am not who I used to…

    • 783 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dark periods in our lives leads us to live in regret and desperation as sorrow seizes its control inside our hearts and minds. In “Letter to You,” by Sappho Scott, a woman, frightened and engulfed in her own desires, writes a mental imagery of words she struggles to find. This letter is not to her husband, to a family member, or a friend, but to a child she lost due to her own life choices. A decision she believes is only made between her and her child that she created and that she chose to execute in her own womb. A choice she wants to live herself as she feels the pain deep throb inside her as she describes her own experiences.…

    • 577 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Hi, my name is Rhonda Galloway-Jones married for twenty years, and I have one son and two daughters. I love spending time with my family, and I love to shop. My chosen field here at Kaplan University is Human Service with an emphasis on Child Welfare and Family. I have over fifteen years of experience working with children in my home as a childcare provider and at daycare centers. I have been strengthening these skills by volunteering to help families in the community.…

    • 83 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Foster Home Research Paper

    • 2079 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Yuli Juarez Section: 4:30-5:40pm TA’s name: Lenny Throughout the years more and more youth are being separated from their families and are being sent to foster homes. As more children and youth enter foster homes they are also staying longer periods of time, meaning that something is not working as efficiently as it should be in the foster care system. These children and youth are being sent to foster homes because the types of relationships that they encounter at home with their families are no longer healthy relationships. There are multiple types of conditions that may have some risk factor for child maltreatment.…

    • 2079 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    After a long year, I finally was back at La Semana, a week long adoption camp for kids from Latin American countries. After the joyous reunion hugs and hellos, I headed off to my classroom that I would be helping in. Glancing out the window I instantly knew that it was one of those picture perfect days. The sun already shining, and a cool breeze just strong enough to lightly brush through my hair. Back in the classroom however, the temperature was not so pleasant.…

    • 585 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I was 13 years old, just starting off high school, when I realized what this dark cloud that’s been floating over me for the past couple of months really is. It wouldn’t be until more than a year later until I seek out professional help. It started off innocently enough as just a feeling of constant emptiness at the pit of my stomach. It slowly turned into randoms bouts of extreme rage, where I’d take out my anger physically, not just on the walls and mirrors of my childhood home and not just on my family, but on myself. I couldn’t understand why I felt this way, why I wasn’t “normal”.…

    • 207 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Foster Carer

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Why there is some People Hesitant to be a Foster Carer? Qualified foster carers sometimes are hesitant to foster a child because of some reasons. They tend to think many things that are stopping them to continue their being foster carer. But what is it stopping them to foster a child?…

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I was only three at the time my parents got into a fatal car accident on the Willington Bridge in the small town that I used to live in. for years after that I was transferred from foster home to foster home all along the west coast. Now here many long years later living with my foster mom Rebecca which may I is always drunk and hate my guts with a passion. Tomorrow is going to be my 16th birthday which is a good thing I finally get to receive my mother’s ring that foster agency said I could have till I was “officially sixteen”…

    • 290 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bam! Bam! Bam! The door slams as my mother screams for my father to let us in, the reek of alcohol filling up my nose as I listen to his slurred words. My mother, brother, sister, and I have just arrived from a trip to see my grandmother in Mexico with no other choice we leave staying at my aunt’s house for two days.…

    • 648 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As I looked around at the blank white walls surrounding me, my anxiety only grew. Why am I here? The question haunted my mind as my solid white shoes tapped softly on the monotonously grey floors. My green eyes landed back on the paper in my hand, reading the words again. Patient 7539, please report to clinical area 3 for a checkup at 6:30am.…

    • 1319 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Essay On Foster Care

    • 1794 Words
    • 8 Pages

    INTRODUCTION Substance abuse is a prevalent issue that carries the massive weight of negative stigmas in the eyes of society. The abusers are seen as social pariahs to the rest of society especially when children are involved. When substance abuse is detected in a home involving children, the first reaction of the public is to remove the child from the home. However, removing a child from their home environment is not always the most logical solution for the health and safety of the child. The Department of Human Services automatically removes children from their parents when drugs are involved in order to correct the parental behavior.…

    • 1794 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The age group that I am drawn to working with are children. I’m interested in working in two different areas which are foster care and adoption agencies. I have always had a passion for working with children ever since I was a young girl. Before I found out about becoming a social work, I was going to school for elementary education. Once I completed 2 years I knew that elementary education was not the path I wanted to take when working with children.…

    • 450 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The resilience of children should never be under estimated. However, the turmoil in foster care remains emotionally disfiguring. Envision a six-year-old little boy, he rinses the dirt from his face before bedtime. Suddenly, he hears screaming and crying commences in his living room. As he peeks around the door facing, his parents are handcuffed.…

    • 541 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Foster Care System Essay

    • 1503 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Foster care system exist to protect children and guarantee their well-being, both physically and mentally. It is a service that assists children who have experienced neglect or abuse by their biological parents or families. These children might be placed in the care of other family members, people they are not related to, in orphanages and with foster parents that have arranged to adopt them. numbers of factors affecting the number of children who got to foster care, but according to (Csaky, pg.30, 2009), it showed a sharp increase from the 1960s to the early 2000s. An increase in poverty levels has increased the likelihood of families not being able to pay their dues such as rent resulting to their homelessness.…

    • 1503 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays