Persuasive Essay About My Grandmother

My whole life since I can remember I’ve always been told stories about how horrible of a life, my grandparents had as they grew up, and how much of a better life that I have had than they have had when they were born all the way up until they were eighteen years old. They both have overcome obstacles that I would never dream of going through; I am really blessed that my childhood has been so magnificent compared to theirs. Both my grandparents have had such a rough life that it does make my heart go out to them especially my grandmother. This makes me want to tell people about it because there are some people out there that have gone through what both of them have gone through and it makes me so proud to call them my grandparents because of

At the age of eleven my grandmother began taking care of her brothers and sisters all on her own with no help at times all they would have to eat is bread. Eventually my great grandfather got a new wife and she was so rude and unkind to my grandmother and her siblings and she split them up and put them in different orphanages. While my grandmother and her siblings were separated in different orphanages they all were molested, and abused. When my grandmother was seventeen and my grandfather was eighteen they got married and raised all of my grandmother’s siblings together. Then my grandparents went through some hardships in their beginnings of their marriage they both became violent drunks and eventually they both became God loving people and they finally both got their lives together. One day my grandparents were dropping my mother and uncle off at a babysitters so they could go to a bar and on the way there they wrecked and almost lost their children and that scared my grandma into going to church. Then when my grandmother was in her forties, she began taking care of my great grandfather after he had a massive stroke and was paralyzed he then eventually died a couple months later. In 1994 my grandmother has

We do have our little arguments, but they would give anything in the world for me and I’m proud that I have such loving and caring grandparents. They have watched me since I was born and They were upset when I moved three hours away, but they are glad I moved because even though I’m not close to them it feels like every time I come back that I never left because that love is always strong. The reason why I admire my grandmother is because of all the hardships she has went through in her life and that she is strict but that’s because nobody was around to push her and to tell her to do good. The reason why I admire my grandfather is because he has been through so much and even on his darkest days he finds some way to pick him up and smile, they both are my heroes and that will never change. My grandmother and grandfather are both my blessings they both care about my well-being and when I was depressed and in my darkest days they picked me up and told me not to let negative things affect me and they told me to think positive. I talked to my grandmother every day for a year straight because I was in such a horrible state of depression, she would pray with me on the phone keeping me calm because I was angry all the time. This whole state I was in was extremely scary, I was angry all the time; I would pick fights with people I was basically straying away from my beliefs and losing friends. My