My Life: The World I Come From?

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The world I come from is far from perfect. The world I come from is a combination of happiness, sadness, and terrifying. I have my family who protects me to be safe and untouched. My community is vice versa, that is what's terrifying. I have a job, it teaches me how to grow up. Then, school is the most important part in my life. My world has opened my eyes and shaped my dreams and aspirations. A College degree will enable me to reach my career goals, for all that I am aiming for. This is my world.
This world I live in, this world I call mine, I feel every type of emotion you can think of. There's sadness that comes only when my family has to go through poorness. There is also depression when I fail. But, there is a load of happiness when I stop and realize, this is my world and I have to play the game ‘Life’ the right way, no cheating accepted. I tell myself, “hard work pays off” because it does, stressing comes in the game of Life and only
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Living in the neighborhood I live at is not so bad, but it is at the same time; no one is really that safe. Kids can't be out in the streets late at night or even at the park down the street from my house. Not to mention, so much homeless people in my area that just saddens me seeing them. My community opened my eyes to see that I have a choice to continue living in the same place or live four times better than now. However, my dad did taught me that I have to work for what I want and thats what Im doing.
I’m pretty young and learned young. I’m just a teenager trying to balance school, work, community service hours, and family time. Of course, I can not get a well paying job at this age so, I get paid minimum wage. I have fun at work, get stressed, and last but not least, I work hard. I work to earn my own money and to spend money that I sweat for instead of spending hard earned money from my parents. So, with the life learned lessons and school opportunities, I will walk my way to

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