How To Change In My Life Essay

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Many things change but how many things change a man? My life has had its ups and downs. There are somethings I have changed to benefit me and those around me and others that have changed me. My life has had many changes in it. Things changing in life is inevitable and adapting is a must. Everything in life can change and living with it is the hard part. The summer after my seventh grade year my parents decided the we should move to California. The worst part of this was that we weren 't moving as a family. My mother, youngest sister, and I would be living with my grandmother in her home in San Diego, California. My parents thought that moving and finding better jobs would help our financial problems. I didn 't want to move because I would …show more content…

Everybody saw me as a loser and when my parents would ask me how things were going I would say that things were going fine. I was gaining more and more weight and was getting depressed but I tried my best not to show it. After a long while I made friends with a classmate in my science class. He helped me out and we started to hangout. As I started hanging out with him his friends became my friends and was getting noticed. I didn 't know it at the time but the group of friends I had were very well liked by everyone and they treated each othe like brothers. They let me join their "crew" & I became a brother. I had finally made some friends and was getting used to my new life and my parents decide we should move back to Dodge City, Kansas. This news sounded great to me. My family would be together again and home and our lives would go back to normal. At least that 's what I thought would happen. When I got back my closest friends I had known since second grade had moved on and made other friends. I got back and had to start all over again. Moving to California and then moving back thought me that something only change temporarily but the move also made me different. I now didn 't trust anyone. I almost never show how I am really feeling. Now I always think of every possible senario with everything. I had to become as much of a "man" as I possibly could meaning I had to mature and act like an adult from …show more content…

My uncle ran the family business in Mexico. The business was a restaurant my grandfather had started and is now presently one of the the most known restaurants in that city. When the news of my uncle passing away reached my family everyone felt miserable and was crying. I knew my uncle but I honestly wasn 't very fond of him. Nevertheless, he was my uncle and I was sorry for his passing but what made me cry was watching my father take the pain of losing his brother. I know he was trying his best not to cry or show it but his pain was too unbearable. When children think of their father they see him as invincible like Superman and when I see my father cry it makes me feel like I am not safe. I feel like there is no hope when I see my father cry and for a child it would be like watching Superman die. I know that it is harsh but I feel like observing my father cry made him weak because before I thought nothing could ever bring down my father but that was a mere image I had made up of him. I have seen my father cry one before my uncle passing away and that was when my grandfather had passed away. My uncle passing away affected the entire family but I think that my family will be the most afftected. The death of my uncle means that now the family restaurant has no one in charge. The morning after hearing the news of my uncles death my father flew to Mexico for the funeral. My father stayed in Mexico for a week attending the funeral and resolving which one of his

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