Adversity My Father

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I faced adversity when my parents divorced. I didn’t tolerate my father’s actions, only because I didn’t quite understand why he treated us the way he did. My mom is the overbearing type. She’s constantly worrying and nagging about our health and safety, while he’s the opposite. Whenever my brothers and I were sick, my mom would remind him to give us medicine, but he never gave it to us. He believed we’d recuperate on our own. She’d explicitly give me directions on how to take my medicine because, what if I took an overdose or gave my brothers one? She trusted herself in me, which gave me no choice but to mature and transition from being a child to an adult. As the role became prominent, I started caring for my brothers in a motherly way. I remember changing my brothers’ diapers, and I was only a kindergartner. I remember bathing and cooking for them. I’d help them with their homework, encourage them to do well in school, worry about their grades and future. Mom had a lot on her plate. Nonetheless, I was more than a sister to them, but sometimes I wish I wasn’t. I was ten. I didn’t want such responsibility. …show more content…

I pondered to myself as to how my life turned out the way it did. I wished I didn’t have the responsibility to fill out court papers, to help pay rent, to discuss to insurance companies, to make doctor appointments, to worry about financial stability, to do all these things my mom should. I wanted a childhood with nothing to worry about other than what to eat for breakfast, what to wear the next morning, and what to color the sky. My mom needed someone to rely on and lean on when there were hardships. I had to mature and transition from being a child to an adult at an early

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