Narrative Essay About Being Old

While we are young we are taught that, as we get older we will find love and happiness. Well at least that’s what I was taught, my mom used to tell me all the time that one day when I got to a certain age that my knight and shining armor was going to come sweep me off my feet and we would live happily. Of course she didn’t mean that in a literal but in a nutshell, this is what she meant, one day a guy is going to come and make you happy you’ll get married and live a perfect picket white fence life. As I began to get older mentally my mind would play tricks on me. We can just say that my life turned out very differently than from how my mom and family expected and for that reason, my life has been changed for both the worse and better. Let me …show more content…
My very first relationship was with a friend from school, we were very close one would even say best friends. Her name was Kiana, she was drop dead gorgeous and I loved everything about her from her smile to her style. We were young and we didn’t really know what we were feeling because we didn’t understand why we were so close. I never would’ve imagined that I would date a female I didn’t know why I was so attracted to them. My mom always told me I would find a nice guy not a girl I was confused and scared, but, little did we know our friendship was the start of a beautiful relationship. I knew that I had to keep this to myself because my family raised me in a …show more content…
My life flipped was turned completely around I had to start over make new friends go to a new school. I didn’t know what to expect. When I got to my sophomore year of high school. I was in my second relationship which happened to be my first love and my worst heartbreak Amanda was her name we played on the basketball team together. She was so amazing to me and she had the kindest heart I ever knew. Well that relationship went public at my school almost everyone knew. I attended a public school with my cousin so he approached and asked me if it was true that I was in a relationship with this girl. I broke down and told him the truth he was the first person that I ever told in my family about my sexuality. I trusted my cousin with this secret I knew he wouldn’t say anything to anyone in my family. One day while on the phone with my mom my cousin accidentally told my mom about my girlfriend. When my mom found out she was furious. She asked me and was insanely upset when I tried to tell her the truth, she didn’t like my answer. She threatened to kick me out of the house if I was going to be “gay” and she started to force me into going out with boys even when I didn’t want to. It broke my heart because my own mom didn’t want to accept me the way I was and it