Tattered By Divorce
I walked down the hall looking around at my house. It was still slightly dark outside only being 6am. The scent of coffee still lingered in the kitchen from even earlier that morning when my dad left for work. I had the last cup of the warm delicious coffee on my way to the office. I slowly made my way down the stairs that creaked with each step being careful not to wake anyone. I sat down at the old dusty computer desk to print my homework for school. I turned on the computer and waited for the screen to load, I sat staring in the distance my eyes still tired.
Once it finished loading, I proceeded to put my jump drive in the computer to locate my paper, suddenly a message box popped up on the screen with a loud …show more content…
I know that I must forgive my parents because now I have a much better understanding of what they were going through. People say that if you come from a family of divorced parents that you grew up in a broken family. I would rather look at this in a different way and say no, now my family is fixed. There used to be only lies and fighting at home, but that isn’t the case anymore. In this situation, I believe it was all for the best, the best way to fix this was to take it apart and start fresh. It is like a father disassembling his child’s broken toy and repairing it with brand new pieces and the child wonders why he ever bothered with the old toy because the new one is so much better. I don’t believe that I have a broken home, I believe that I have a fixed brand new one. It all comes down to my point of view. I changed my point of view from being sad, lonely and
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broken over divorce to now choosing to look at what happened in a different light, I find myself living a happier life because of it. I think that everything happens for a reason and it is time for me to forgive and forget the negative aspects.
I blamed myself for a long time after the divorce and wondered if I had been a better daughter would they still be together? It took time for me to truly realize how much happier everyone was after the divorce. Even though I have two households instead of one each of them is more joyful than ever. Families come in all different shapes and sizes, I have now found the one that suits me
I walked down the hall looking around at my house. It was still slightly dark outside only being 6am. The scent of coffee still lingered in the kitchen from even earlier that morning when my dad left for work. I had the last cup of the warm delicious coffee on my way to the office. I slowly made my way down the stairs that creaked with each step being careful not to wake anyone. I sat down at the old dusty computer desk to print my homework for school. I turned on the computer and waited for the screen to load, I sat staring in the distance my eyes still tired.
Once it finished loading, I proceeded to put my jump drive in the computer to locate my paper, suddenly a message box popped up on the screen with a loud …show more content…
I know that I must forgive my parents because now I have a much better understanding of what they were going through. People say that if you come from a family of divorced parents that you grew up in a broken family. I would rather look at this in a different way and say no, now my family is fixed. There used to be only lies and fighting at home, but that isn’t the case anymore. In this situation, I believe it was all for the best, the best way to fix this was to take it apart and start fresh. It is like a father disassembling his child’s broken toy and repairing it with brand new pieces and the child wonders why he ever bothered with the old toy because the new one is so much better. I don’t believe that I have a broken home, I believe that I have a fixed brand new one. It all comes down to my point of view. I changed my point of view from being sad, lonely and
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broken over divorce to now choosing to look at what happened in a different light, I find myself living a happier life because of it. I think that everything happens for a reason and it is time for me to forgive and forget the negative aspects.
I blamed myself for a long time after the divorce and wondered if I had been a better daughter would they still be together? It took time for me to truly realize how much happier everyone was after the divorce. Even though I have two households instead of one each of them is more joyful than ever. Families come in all different shapes and sizes, I have now found the one that suits me