Personal Narrative: A Life No One Should Live

A Life No One Should Live The wheels of family discontent were set in motion before I was even born. They could have come screeching to a halt only if they knew where to draw the line. My dad mentioned bringing bean hash to a family potluck, a common family dish, but just the thought made my mom gag. She said she had been feeling strange and told my dad she thought she was pregnant. He didn’t believe her but at 4:30 in the morning, on his way out hunting, my mom took the test. She was pregnant! What should have been a happy exciting time turned stressful and began the years of family drama. A few days before Thanksgiving my parents shared the news with my grandparents, wanting to keep the pregnancy between them until my mom saw the Dr. and made sure everything was OK and a true pregnancy. Unfortunately my dad’s mother, Sharon, decided to tell the entire …show more content…
Because the meaning of the holidays are to get close to your family and celebrate the holidays with them. All I hear is kids talking bad about their grandparents and how they never get them anything good. But all I have ever wanted from them is to show up and have a good Christmas with me. No fighting just sit and talk or just say hello. There was a time when we moved farther away to get away from them. It was a town called Cottonwood it was Christmas day and they said that they were going to come down and see me. I was so happy to finally get to see them it had been so long. I had opened my presents and was just waiting for them to come, but after several hours it came very clear that they weren 't coming. I was ready to give up. But then I heard a car door shut and I ran to see them leaving with a bunch of presents just sitting in the entryway and no one there to give them to me. It seemed that I was more of an obligation than their grandson. It 's hard to think that someone can leave or hurt a child the way they hurt