Personal Narrative: How Adulthood Has Affected My Life

In life you learn that it is not what you imagined as a child. As a child the world seemed perfect and that all people were good. With time the world became strange, and not the same place I remembered as kid. Adulthood is when life became hard to deal with, and it still is. In my twenty-eight years of life, I discovered many things about the world and it has affected my life tremendously. The first few years of my life the world was more wonderful than it is now. The world was exciting to me and life was great then. At that point life was filled with fun, friendly people, and no bills to pay. In the late nineties and early 2000's was more safe, clean, and less violent. Children could play in their front yard without parents fearing someone …show more content…
My world had become exposed to things I thought should not have witnessed. Seeing people doing drugs to watching someone sell them, was not a norm for me. My feelings about myself began to change, because the world had become so cruel. Society made it seem as if a woman who looked like me was considered ugly. I became insecure and antisocial. My low self-esteem and the judgment from the people around me of what was cool affected my academics. Striving for the success in my classes turned into skipping school every chance I got. Soon I lost myself trying to find the old little girl that once believed the world was wonderful. Realization hit me and I stop searching for the old and began accepting the new. Still insecure, I began looking for attention from others, especially guys. I felt the world would accept me if I became something they wanted. At the end of my teenage years and the beginning of my adulthood, my choice of clothing was revealing and overly sexy. Drinking alcohol and receiving attention, good or bad, had become a way of comfort. That lifestyle continued until I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. With my lifestyle and my situation with my daughter's father, life began to change for the better. Again, I discovered the world had become a better place. A child entering the world changed everything for me. My family mended relationships and became the best support system I could ask for. I did not mention that