Personal Narrative: How Divorce Changed My Life

Privileged to say the least, I was born into the opportunity of living and growing up in San Diego. Surrounded by both parents and a younger brother for most of my life, I was raised and attended school in the Ocean Beach area.
At the young age of ten, I was faced with a situation that has had one of the largest influences in who I am today. My parents’ divorce has and still currently plays a role in my life that has affected my drive for motivation bringing diverse perspectives. At such a young age, I was filled with such remorse, discouragement, and fear. My educational abilities were collapsing, along with some of my common social activities. I was absent-minded due to my adolescent understanding and confusion of the situation. I became emotionally depleted coming eye to eye with what I was promised would never happen. My personal connections with my family gradually became diminished, from what I kept so valuable. I was placed in a situation that tore apart my contentment, arrogance, and self motivation. It wasn’t until years later, I took my position as a chance to transform my bleakness into a strong desire for greatness.
At the same time, I had learned to adjust to and compromise with the other factors that come along with an annulment. My brother and I were put in terrible

positions. Our parents would argue as to where we would stay for the night, possibly a week. At times, my brother and I would reach the point of complete fatigue. We would be introduced to others, someone in whom at the time one of my parents were dating. It was such a difficult fact, in accepting another parental figure as your own.
Nevertheless, still at such a young age, I was taught to use this experience and the build-up of my inner frustration to move past what it had damaged.

I refound my individuality, competence, and potentiality through my devotion to knowledge, and appreciation to school culture. I refound my exhilaration in the sport that took control of myself being, volleyball. I refound gratification through my valuable friends along with their motivation in finding greatness in the situation. I refound my self worth after coming face to face with the separation of two of the most important and authoritative figures of my life. I refound everything that I am currently resembling of myself

today.
I have found my inner work ethic through my efforts to balance school life, while upholding two jobs. Since the age of about fifteen and a half, I was employed as a hostess at a local restaurant and in the past year, I was hired at another restaurant near by as a hostess as well. The assets that I have taken out of these two jobs have taught me communicative skills and time management, making me an industrious and productive worker. Working up to four or five days a week, mainly in the evening time, have tested both the abilities of my personal academics and social life. My motivation and readiness has been and will continue to trigger my yearning for an income, along with the personal satisfaction that comes along with success.
I can now relate this experience to my spark of interest in Psychology that I plan to prolong into further steps of my life. I hope to apply my old habits of fortitude to study the importance of mind and behavior. I am proud to hold the title in being the first of my family to attend a four year university following high school. In the upcoming years I hope to transfer my work ethic, time management, and potentiality to places and people that have the ability to influence my techniques in a positive manner.