I know everything happens for a reason, but sometimes I wish I knew what that reason was. I was born on the 19th of August 2000, in a home where the struggles of life drifted me away from education. It was more of a place where I grew up without a father. Although, my mother raised me, I lived long years with my siti (grandmother). When I was six-years-old, my mother had to leave for eight months, as to where she was going and why, I had no clue. I was forty-days-old when my father left me in the arms of my mother, under the care of my grandparents. I began to grow day after day, and while I was growing, pain was developing inside of me. Piece by piece, it built up a fire in my heart. As my mother was raising me, she was trying to teach me how to …show more content…
“I promise, son. In a time where I was trying to break down these effective words and understand them, suddenly my mother left. There was no clue to define where she was going and why. Days later, my grandfather was rushed to the hospital, and he was diagnosed with heart disease that eventually led to his death. At this point in my life, I did not know what to do. One of the most loving people in my life was gone. My mom wasn’t even here to help me through the pain. It became the turning point of my life, which did not prevent me from continuing my life and most importantly attending school. I was one of the most dedicated and diligent student in school. I had dreams of having the power to fly over the oceans. Furthermore, my future goal was to become a pilot. My ambition to become a pilot grew stronger day by day. However, something did not feel right. The hole that was left in my heart, made me feel so empty and lonely. The days passed, and the months flew, and there goes my mom arriving at the airport gate. So many questions were in my mind, but seeing my mom meant the world to me. After she settled and unpacked, she gave me a wooden car. “What is this, mom?” “It’s a car that your dad made for
When I was growing up, I barely ever got to see my father and brother. Lily grew up without her mother. When I was around 1 years old, my mother and father got divorced. My mother took me with her and my father kept my brother and sister. My mother told me, that my father was abusive told her and my brother and sister.
I remember our first days in US were difficult for me and my mother; especially, one night when I woke up and saw her fainting in the cold floor. I had panicked, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have a car, or phone to call anyone. I felt a shame of myself, I couldn’t help my own mother at the same time. Thankfully, one of my neighbors was awake, and she helped me with everything.
“Hold still you little brat.” I looked up to see who had said that, but before I even got a glimpse of anyone, I felt an instant pain in my neck that trickled down my spine which then caused me to collapse. Sadly, while I laid there on the street, barely even able to think, I watched my mother and father be drug off unconscious, then loaded into a military truck that only left behind smoke and tire tracks. “Momma! don’t leave me!.
I always dreamt I would become a starman polluting the universe with fuel from some prolific spacecraft with a fleet complimented by its like-minded visionaries. Instead, I stroll the halls of a glossy high rise condominium carrying a buzzing radio as an abhorrent rent a cop twiddling my thumbs questioning my worth. Becoming content with a life unfulfilling knowing the potential of everything it could be is excruciating. Anxiety is like a prowling beast clawing at my self-esteem, stripping away at its meat, devouring accomplishments, and sowing my fears in favor of a bountiful harvest. The realization that I'm starring in a dismal horror movie of my own design is disheartening.
Final Paper The person I chose to interview for this final paper was my mother, Peggy. I am going to start with providing a brief social history on her. Peggy was born on October 29, 1940 to my grandparents, Marie and John. She is the second of six children, and was raised in Philadelphia.
When I saw the flash of my mom 's headlights my body shook with fear and I held in a sob. My mom opened the front door and I ran to her, clinging to her like I did when I was a child. I felt the warmth of her skin against mine and listened for a moment to her heartbeat. “Can we talk about something?” I asked, letting go of my mom.
I woke up on an especially cool winter morning and looked over to my mother’s side of the bed. She was not there, I knew that, but I secretly wished she was. I swung my legs off the bedside and rushed to the bathroom to brush my teeth and get myself ready for school. This was a typical morning for me.
My hands became clammy and my heart started racing. I did not want to believe the words coming out of my mother’s lips, “His kidney failed three weeks after the operation, he is dead”. I was just 5 years old and I felt like there was no purpose to live. My father was everything to me. I already missed his genuine kindness, the way his smile formed whenever he talked to me about life, and the times where we had father-son time at the airport, watching airplanes fly.
My life and journey towards Cornell has been one characterized by struggle. Throughout my childhood, I was raised in two families which highly valued critical thinking and education. As such, I was always expected to ask “Why?” “Why?” was the question that could bring me an education. “Why?” could help me learn more about my surroundings and how I could improve them. I also asked that question when my mother and birth father divorced.
So here I was a 9th grade being only 14 taking care of my sister (who is two years younger than me) having no license or anything to help me. I learned to be really independent and caring, also I matured for my age faster than most kids at my age. After my Mina passed away my parents fought worse than ever and seperated and I went and lived with my mom
In addition to her suffering, her constant back pains at night made me want to alleviate all of her pain, sadly, all I could do was offer her heat patches. I could not imagine how lonely my mom must have felt since she left her whole family behind in Vietnam. Witnessing my mother endure such hardship, I felt like it was my duty as her daughter to diminish her suffering. The dream that my mom often fantasized about was of me having a stable career. My long-term goal is to be financially stable so that I can take care of my mother, but, first I must successfully attain a job.
In my brief life, I have overcome a lot of adversity. My mom fled Mexico with her three young children to escape domestic violence. When we came to this country we had only a few personal belongings and the promise of a better future. We came to this country and lived in a small trailer with no toilet other than a bucket, and no shower except for the one that was lent to us from the kindness of a stranger, our new neighbor. As a single parent, my mother had to work day and night to support us.
Lord Ganesha The Applications of Erikson’s Stages of Psychological Development Trust vs. Mistrust (Birth – 1 year) When I was born in this auspicious earth the first face I saw was my parents face. I used to cry a lot and mom usually thinks I’m hungry and feeds me every time when I do so. So I got to know my mom a lot
I watched my mother fade away slowly as she was battling pancreatic cancer. I looked after her everyday as best as I could; however, the feeling of my eventual solitude was unbearable. The thought of my mother’s imminent demise made me feel like my heart was being continuously stabbed. Watching my mother suffer was one of the hardest things I have ever had to go through. After her passing; something changed in me, darkness filled where love once was.
I then somehow gather the power and decided to struggle for my livelihood and my mother. I left my studies because I had no money to continue them and I don’t want my mother to handle more burden. I started a job and along some teaching classes to small kids. After a hard period of one year, I was able enough to continue my studies and now my only mission is to become someone on whom my father get proud of and then I will ask him why he did all of this to us . This is the reason I don’t make friends nor talk useless to someone.