THIS SCAR (A LIFE EVENT THAT IMPACTED ME AND THE RESULTS)

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“From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived.” Craig Scott sums up my life in a sentence. From an abusive alcoholic father, to not having a home, to losing the only man that loved me from the beginning, I have gained many of these scars. Throughout my life I have been hit with challenges right after challenges. The hardest battle was the one I lost. On May 23, 2014, I lost my Papa. With my first loss, I had to take a hard look at life, and I learned many things.
Through the tears of losing my partner in crime, I opened my eyes to the realization that life comes with a silver lining. All through my life I have been blessed with one miracle after the other, but through loss of Papa and the gaining of Eli, I truly saw it. For the longest time, I was unable to see any way that my life could be able to recover. Nothing would ever fill the whole in my heart, after the portion my Papa took with him. You see, a week after my Papa went to party with the angels my brother Elijah Blaine Nielsen was born. It was as if God had sent me a reward for letting him take away my life. I understood that not everything was wrong with the world and that maybe there was hope for joy to come back. I remember when I was young and would cry constantly about how my father didn’t love me, and my Papa would calm me down by saying, “Don’t see it as, ‘He doesn’t love me’, see it as, ‘Others love me’..” As a child I didn’t understand the thought process behind this silly saying, but as a young adult, I understand the silver lining. Although losing him was a pain that I will never be able to mask, I have been able to pull away the look on life that there is always a silver lining.
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All through my life, I have been shaped by events. I have persevered through the struggles of not having a childhood, just a young adult life, having a monster of a father, the changing of my life multiple times, and the loss of my Papa, along with others. Out of all my molds I was given, I was shaped the most by the taking of my beloved Papa. I realized that life has a silver lining; you just have to choose to see it. I came to terms with admitting I need someone to hold me when times get rough, my God. And most of all, I recognized that growing up isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Losing love is hard, but there are many things that are enable you to grow as a person, so in the words of Ben E. King, “Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experiences that make you wise.”

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