Everyone can relate too…____My experience of change, with my parent’s divorce dramatically changed the way I looked at divorce overall growing up. Not only did my parent’s divorce affect just how I looked at family, but it changed my outlook and opinion on all aspects of my life. The world totally looked different from before and after it, kind of like how_____ is relatable to you. “Divorce” growing up that word sounded dirty and gross to me. Incomplete and I felt like it was me trying to put the wrong types of puzzle pieces together thinking about the word. I was just relieved it didn’t have to affect me, or so I used to think. My parents got a divorce when I was 10 years old, and I didn’t know what to think or how to handle it. Thankfully at that age I was a little optimistic and was able to see and hear both sides.
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Positively it opened me up to other things in life making me more optimistic still and I learned to start giving people and new things in life more of a chance. The negative side I mainly faces was the thoughts I had growing up about divorce still was inside of most of my friends and people in my life. Others thought so negatively about divorce while I knew the truth. It was negative yet it wasn’t as bad or terrible as they thought, or as I used to think. Having those people understand those feelings has been the most interesting experience of trying to show everything is actually okay, yet completely complicated. I noticed not only my life change around me but the world. As time changes, everyone changes. This idea helped me to see it’s not just me and my family going through changes, but everyone in the world experiences change in some way every
Positively it opened me up to other things in life making me more optimistic still and I learned to start giving people and new things in life more of a chance. The negative side I mainly faces was the thoughts I had growing up about divorce still was inside of most of my friends and people in my life. Others thought so negatively about divorce while I knew the truth. It was negative yet it wasn’t as bad or terrible as they thought, or as I used to think. Having those people understand those feelings has been the most interesting experience of trying to show everything is actually okay, yet completely complicated. I noticed not only my life change around me but the world. As time changes, everyone changes. This idea helped me to see it’s not just me and my family going through changes, but everyone in the world experiences change in some way every