Growing Up In Water Research Paper

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You’ve turned on the shower, but you're not getting in quite yet. The water is not hot enough. While the water runs, you start your personal routine, checking Instagram, tweeting a funny tweet, or looking through snapchat stories.What a waste! The main reason most people avoid getting in the shower is because they dread the cold temperature, disturbing chills, and crisp water they feel against their skin.

I wasn't given the opportunity to wait for the water to warm up. I didn’t have the luxury of wait around until my life became easier to bear. Instead, I was pressured to get in and embrace the cold water that poured down on me.

People say, “Being a mom is the toughest job on earth.”and Because my own mother decided to leave when I was 14, …show more content…

Growing up in this culture, I figured that was the norm. Any thought of a man cooking and cleaning was absurd to me.

This is why I was led to take on the position of being a mother at the age of 14. I was forced to get into the shower before the water was warm enough for me.

I was only 14 when I had to step up and be a mother to my older brother, little brother, cousin, and father.

I was the only girl living in a two-bedroom apartment with this job that was forced upon me due to the tradition and culture my family holds.

The routine of my everyday life was; motivating myself to get out of bed, waking up my family, cooking breakfast for them, making sure they had a lunch, going to school exhausted, coming home and starting what I could of homework, get dinner going, cleaning after everyone, and then helping my little brother with his homework while I still had my own to worry about. One day, while I was scrubbing the residue off a pot, I came the realization that pity and sorrow will get me nowhere. I had to fight to make my life worth living. I saw the benefit of being thrown in the water. Not only was I saving water, I had more time to get things done, I was

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