Personal Narrative: My Brother Changed My Family

From a young age I always thought my family was like any other family. Happy. Once I started school, I knew my older brother Geoffrey was having behavior issues. I remember having to wait up to an hour for my mom to pick me up after school. her excuse was always, "I'm sorry, but you know how your brother gets." One he began high school, I learned to lock myself in my room because the countless mornings of verbal attacks, did not compare to the physical attacks that came after he was expelled for the third time. I was in the seventh grade when I realized I had not talked to him in a year. I was miserable, my whole family was miserable and we had been for a very long time.

In July 2011, my sister and I were getting ready to go into work with my mom. My eldest brother was asleep in his bedroom and Geoffery was asleep in …show more content…
About a week later, I came home from school and found him heating up food in the microwave. My mom had paid his 10,000 dollar bail with my college fund money. It was at that exact moment where I realized her priorities. I had sacrificed so many things, from whether or not being able to come to home after school just because he was home, to having to switch high schools because I was already known as "Geoffery's younger sister."

I made it my personal goal to not be like him at all. without a college fund, I have taken extensive measures to make my life as productive as possible. i learned that I have to work now and enjoy later. I grew up experiencing first hand that personal actions affect others.

I fell a certain obligation to make my family, my mom in particular, as proud as I can. I efuseto be that family down the street that parents warn their kids about. I need to be successful. I need to feel a certain pride in myself that I have yet to fully attained. I won't stop until I have reached the goeal I have set out for myself. So far it has worked