What Are The Obstacles In My Life

Throughout my life I've encountered a lot of obstacles and hardships. However I've learned to deal with them and in turn, I have become a better person. I was born and raised in Wichita, a city more southern than northern in the state of Kansas. Life was good for awhile, I was just a young kid with big dreams in a broken city. I saw all the homeless people, drug addicts, drug dealers, Prostitutes, etc. but didnt think nothing of it. Of course I was young, I thought abuse was normal, drugs were normal and everything in between was just, normal. It never occurred to me that my life wasn’t as good as it gets, I was content with my life. Looking back now though i see the struggle, the pain all around me, the constant need for money to get stuff necessary for survival. Most of all, i remember being abused by my father. I remember watching him hit my mom and push her down stairs, I remember her priceless emotions, the smile she wanted to show her son to hide the brutality of the cruel reality we lived in. I remember praying for a cure to my father's anger so that we could stay a family, the cure never came. They later divorced . …show more content…
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