Throughout my entire life I have had to deal with adversity that has shaped my life and made me the person I am today. When I was just three years old my parents divorced and I moved from Virginia down to Augusta, Georgia where we lived with my grandparents until we got a house of our own. My childhood was pretty rough when it came to seeing my father. It always seemed like there was a change in plans whenever I was going to see him and I was constantly getting my hopes up of nothing. When I was in second grade my mom started dating someone. This was the first father figure I had really had in my life and really liked having him around, but I still loved my dad and really wanted him to be around. My stepdad filled the father figure role well for me. He taught me how to play …show more content…
This was really hard on me because I felt like an outsider of sorts. My relationship with my dad was really strong and we talked on the phone everyday about what was going on in our lives and he never forgot to tell me just how much he loved me. During my middle school years my father's flaws began to come out and I learned more about who he really was and I got a deeper explanation for my parents divorce. Through this me and my dad's relationship stayed strong and I still wanted him in my life. During the summer before I started high school I got to spend a week with my dad in Virginia and I really enjoyed the time we spent and I thought that he had worked on some of the problems he had before and he made me believe he had changed. After our visit I did not want to go home and I remember crying for hours wanting to stay. Later during the summer we made plans for me to go back up to Virginia and spend another week with him. However, about day before we left something happened and I was told I as not going to be able to
The story about I Martranika Gross, called changing my life. It all begin with many ideals that I had in mind to become while changing my life so my daughter will fix in. First was continue my education at Strayer University and a journey to follow. Next, becoming a role model with a pathway lay out for my daughter, a showing her not to stay you can’t to become successful. Finally, overcome obstacles first you have to have faith within yourself, and the key word is knowledge.
However, my father did leave my mother and me when I was a toddler before I could actually remember him. He would call to talk to me a lot throughout the years to let me know that he loved me and he would also visit me sometimes. However, after he left, my mother found another man and gave birth to my three little sisters. I then became a big sister with responsibilities for more than just myself. Having little sisters taught me how to share and play nicely. That experience prepped me for my school years where I would have to get along with a new set of people.
Handling adversity is something that all people must do throughout their lives, but it is the ways in which individuals approach adversity that sets us apart. There are two contrasting ways in which you can respond to adversity: 1) you can either curl up into a ball and accept the outcome as it is 2) you can take control of the situation and work hard to make the resulting outcome in your favor. I faced adversity within sports when I was diagnosed with a physical disorder as a child.
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I cried in my room for hours wishing my dad would not go, a whole month without him seemed like the end of the world. I would have no one to play hockey with, no one to tuck me in at night and no one to eat donuts with every Friday. My dad tried to console me but I was too angry to listen to him, I suddenly hated my grandpa for causing my dad to leave me alone. At the airport my dad gave me a long hug and told me to be brave since I was now “the man of the house,” (even though I am a girl), I had to take care of my mom. Promptly this made me suck in my tears and stop acting like a “loser.” It was hard repressing my feelings, seeing my dad leave made my eyes tear severely but I held them back, the man of the house does not cry. Time went by faster when I was at school, I had less time to miss my dad. About two weeks later, my mom got a call from India, my grandpa had died. My mom broke down crying, she slammed the phone across the room into the wall. I felt scared to appr...
As I grew up throughout my childhood I accepted the word “no” from my parents with blatant frustration. I grew up in a well off home and never had to worry about where I will spend the night or if I will be able to eat that night, I used to never be as thankful as I should have for those reasons. Thoughts constantly ran rampant through my head of, “Mommy and daddy have so much money why can’t I have this!” I never grasped the fact of if my parents could provide me with a certain luxury that I did not need but wanted, why they did not. As a child I saw all the kids around me with many luxuries I desired but could not have as my parents refused, although I was completely unaware of their own financial status as a kid I could only look at everyone
My father was always there for me, whether I wanted him to be or not. Most of the time, as an adolescent trying to claim my independence, I saw this as a problem. Looking back I now realize it was a problem every child needs, having a loving father. As hard as I tried to fight it, my dad instilled in me the good values and work ethic to be an honest and responsible member of society. He taught me how to be a good husband. He taught me how to be a good father. He taught me how to be a man. It has been 18 years since my father’s death, and I am still learning from the memories I have of him.
After my dad left my mom, sister and I lived alone. Personally, this was very tough on me, a kid my age, I couldn't too young to understand why he left, I never seemed to notice the gaping hole I felt inside, he had left, I had no dad. A nanny came into my life to drive my sister and I around. My mom was always working to keep up with financial bills. I could tell she was struggling, so I tried to help out with chores and dinner as best I could but it was a lot for a kid. On weekends when my sister had tennis tournaments out of town, I had to come too. My weekends became
My father left when i was 5 years old i didn?t think much of it since i was too young to know anything. He was a unstable man living the wrong life he was going down the wrong road he couldn?t handle a family obviously. He was a great man before heading down the wrong road he could have fixed it all if his mentality was in the right state. This is one of the reasons why he left my family behind like we never existed. One big part of that i learned not to take those same steps as my father so i won?t make the same mistake.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
All my elements in my circle are energizers because they have made small and big impacts in my life causing me to make a choice that changed my life. Each element is active and has an impact that made me be in the position I am today. I have many positive than negative energy that I have defeated and many more to come. My friends help me to remember to have fun in life and be able to be silly, myself, and have someone other than family to count on.
My father was given the responsibility of supporting the children and received 60 percent of the time with the kids. This made for a very messy schedule that I still mess up every once in awhile. The only good thing that came out of the complex divorce was that the children stuck together. No matter which home we went to, we went together and never thought of separating. Eventually time healed the open wounds that were created by the divorce. I do not know whether or not I will ever completely get over the divorce of my parents, but now since it is just a memory, I can say that I have suffered through a traumatic experience within my family and lived. I have lived to tell the tale and am fortunate to proclaim that our family is stronger than ever. My parents may have separated, but my family is still
A pivotal moment for lots of kindergarteners is the day their parents take the training wheels off and they learn how to ride a bicycle on their own. This scrapbook moment came for me too; the only difference is I managed to be a licensed driver before I mastered the elementary skill. Learning to ride a bike, even at sixteen, helped me learn that not all tasks can not be mastered immediately, and the best way to success is to get back up and keep trying.
My dad went through the a terrible lifestyle. He never had someone to teach him how to be a dad or even had a positive man role model. And even then when he finally got one , it was already to late by that time. He did how ever push me a lot in sports and honestly has been a great support to all my events when I was little. But I honestly have been disappointed and mad at him for several years for all the stuff he did to hurt my family. But now I 'm trying to forgive and forget, which would be the Christian thing to do. So now me and him on good terms and I just pray that hopefully we can stay like that. And he may not be the best dad ever. But atleast he was there some times and he still taught me to never do what he ever did. So u have to be thankful because most kids don 't even have dad 's so I 'm
I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me.