Q: Consider something in your life you think goes unnoticed and write about why it 's important to you. When I was almost one year old, I was put up for adoption. My birth parents put me up for adoption for an unknown cause and I’ve never heard from them since. I wasn’t in the adoption agency for long. 12 days after I was in the adoption agency my current parents adopted me. They flew me from Texas to Madison, where I’ve lived ever since. Due to me being not even one when I was adopted, as I grew up, I didn’t even know what adopted meant, let alone that I was adopted. The first time I noticed that my family was different was a vivid memory for me. My childhood best friend, in 3rd grade asked me “why I was a different color than my mommy”.
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I think that this has been a very real and hard struggle that I’ve had ever since that day in 7th grade that first made me aware of this option. I know that my parents love me and would do anything for me and I am very content with that, but I still struggle with the terrifying thought that I was just given away. To write this, I almost called the agency to talk to my birth parents to find out, but disappointingly I couldn’t get up the courage to do so. I think that for me to be truly satisfied and content with where I am now that I need to talk to and discuss the circumstances that led up to adoption. Even if it is bad news, I think that I would be better off knowing it. I just can’t get up the courage to take the first step and call, I keep just running in circles online with potential parents and stories I make up to try to not worry about and suppress that feeling of abandonment that sometimes occurs. For these reasons I tend to keep this to myself, so most people don’t think and wouldn’t assume that I struggle with this. I do think that through all this this has made me a stronger and better person. I have learned to deal with my emotions and how to always think on the bright side
I think that this has been a very real and hard struggle that I’ve had ever since that day in 7th grade that first made me aware of this option. I know that my parents love me and would do anything for me and I am very content with that, but I still struggle with the terrifying thought that I was just given away. To write this, I almost called the agency to talk to my birth parents to find out, but disappointingly I couldn’t get up the courage to do so. I think that for me to be truly satisfied and content with where I am now that I need to talk to and discuss the circumstances that led up to adoption. Even if it is bad news, I think that I would be better off knowing it. I just can’t get up the courage to take the first step and call, I keep just running in circles online with potential parents and stories I make up to try to not worry about and suppress that feeling of abandonment that sometimes occurs. For these reasons I tend to keep this to myself, so most people don’t think and wouldn’t assume that I struggle with this. I do think that through all this this has made me a stronger and better person. I have learned to deal with my emotions and how to always think on the bright side