Personal Narrative: My Step Dad

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He changed everything. My step dad is the best thing that ever happened to me. He’s the only dad that I have. When I was about 7 my biological father walked out of my life and I never seen him again. Without my step dad I would be going nowhere in my life. My life was starting to go down the drain before he came into my family and was my dad. My step dad is my hero and his name is Josh.
When my father left me I was to little to understand why. Him and my mom weren’t together since I was about 2, but he was still in my life until I was around 7 years old. My mom wouldn’t tell me why he quit contacting me, picking me up,and just cut me out of his life until a year later. When I found out why my own father left me, I gave up on life. In school …show more content…

Adjusting to a new family, becoming more appreciative with things, respecting adults (especially my mother), and so much more. I remember a time not long after my step family moved in, I was going to fruitport. I decided that I was going to stop taking my adderall medication just because I didn’t want to take it anymore. So instead of just throwing them away, I would put them in my backpack so my parents didn’t see them in the trash. Well, I had about a week's worth of pills in my backpack, and the school did a drug search. When we went into lockdown, I was so scared but okay with it because I knew Josh would be so mad, and I just loved the idea of him being mad. Needless to say that I got suspended for 2 weeks. My step dad was FURIOUS. He knew I was doing it to act out, and he was right. Instead of yelling and screaming at me, he just calmly talked to me about how much trouble I could’ve gotten in with the cops, how lucky I was that the school only suspended me for 2 weeks instead of expelling me, and how much I need to take my medicine. I did quite understand why he was so calm toward me when I knew he was so mad about it. Now I know that if he would’ve yelled it wouldn’t have gotten anywhere and I would not have been able to realize what how much worse things could’ve been. He always has a way of showing me wrong from right. Such as fighting, smoking, …show more content…

It’s not only just him helping guide my way down the right path, but it was the love that came with it. With my biological father gone out of my life as a child made me feel incomplete, and unloved. My mom was a great mother, she was always there, caring, and loving. She was trying to raise 4 kids on her own and work 2 jobs to pay the bills, and still find time for me, but I still needed a dad no matter how much I denied it.The dad that was supposed to be there for me, protect me, and love me wasn’t there when I needed it most, Josh was. I’ve come to realize that it’s not the person who helped bring you into this world that is your dad or mom, it’s the person who raised you like their own, loved you like their own, and cared for you, and Josh was that person for

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