Essay About Struggles

Struggles are problems that we face in life but at the end we of these struggles we have bright outcomes. My struggles are not what you might think I have but we don’t all know what others go through. When I was born, both my parents had high hopes for their first child. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment with two of my uncles, some of my dad’s friends. They had no privacy people sleeping in the living room everyone knew when someone did something, My parents and I had one of the rooms since everyone that lived there thought it was right for my parents to get a room because they were a married coupled, but also they just had a kid as well. At the age of two, one of my uncles was run over and killed, the police went days investigating but never found the people that committed the …show more content…
We usually had late night calls from my dad everyone had two minutes to talk to him my mom, my grandmother, my sister and then me. I was lucky enough to get two minutes it was usually the same thing he told me , “ Echale ganas mijo, eres el hombre de la casa no te veas triste por que deves hacer fuerte pa tu jefa, hermanita y tu abuelita.” Then he would be “ Mijo recuerda que te am…” and he didn’t finish it would hang up but I always wished he would finish because I rarely hear him tell me he loved me. Two to three months later we got a lawyer, paid my dad’s bail and he was out and home with us again. I was so happy it was the first time I felt a strong tight hug from my father and tears of happiness of being united but little we knew this wasn’t going to last. I started the seventh grade, I got older many things change I stop being that nerdy kid I was, I was tired of being bullied for liking Pokémon, dressing nerdy, so I started to hang out with the local gang members so I would get respect and stop getting bullied.