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Essay On My Happiest Memory

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One of my earliest memories was experiencing second hand heartbreak and devastation. I was around 5 ½. My parents periodically fostered young children, a total of four, throughout my childhood. They also had my three siblings and I to take care of, but once my eldest brother moved out, they figured we had enough room and love to give. The only foster kid I was old enough to remember was a 7-year-old boy, Jay. He was extremely energetic and enthusiastic about everything, a case of ADHD, but a great boy. Funny enough, my fondest memories with him took place at meal times. We both were very imaginative and made eating a game. When we had noodles, like Top Ramen or macaroni, we would pretend to be birds. We would be fully committed to our roles, getting up on our chairs, crouching, spreading our "wings" and slurping up the noodles like birds with just our mouths. My mom wasn't particularly fond of this game, as you can imagine why. With mashed potatoes, Jay would sculpt his stack into a cone shape, make an indent at the top, and pour gravy like it was a volcano. The gravy "lava" would fall onto his "dinosaur" broccoli, …show more content…

I want to do any part I can in helping all the future Jays of the world. No child deserves to go through such heartbreak. I want to help these sweet people find the loving homes they deserve, where they will be appreciated like Jay should have been. I really believe that he would have stayed a good person if he had had the support and family setting he so desperately needed. My mom and I have tried to locate him recently because she still has a full scrapbook dedicated to the short upbringing he had with us, holiday and school pictures, even drawings. It's a bummer we have no way of contacting him, I'm sure he would love to have those things. I have no idea where in life Jay is now, but I hope he found someone to love him and put him back on the right

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