The Hardships Of My Family

As part of the human condition we face problems from time to time. Every family experiences its own problems, whether they are financial, food, health, housing, family, or education related. All of these hardships together can add up to one’s having a sense of "failure", but how serious is that? All these problems are challenges that life puts before us. Sometimes we win and sometimes we may fail, but we learn and grow from our experiences.
Sadly, my family has experienced several hardships. I’m originally from New York, a state that people love to visit. At the age of ten my family and I moved to Houston, Texas with the hopes of having a peaceful and worry free life. Everything was going well until one day the store where my dad was working

It was going well for a while, then February came along and the factory where my dad was working wasn’t selling as much product as it did in December. My dad was not working as many hours as he did in the beginning. So we experienced the same problem again. By this time I was 16 and I suggested to my parents that we move back to Houston. Besides, I didn’t like being in New York. My parents thought about it for several days. We came back to Houston because of me. My dad came back to a temporary job; he didn’t have a stable job. We survived for a couple of months but again my dad lost his job. We started experiencing greater hardships and we started arguing about everything. Sometimes I felt that this was all my fault, because I had encouraged my parents to move back to Houston. By this time I was 17 and finishing my sophomore year in high school. I was not looking forward to going on summer break, I knew I was not going to have an awesome summer because we we’re facing many problems. I wondered if there was ever going to be a solution to all of the problems we were facing. Of course, there’s always a solution to everything, we just had to be positive and be confident in ourselves. We needed to believe in ourselves and ask ourselves, “How can we solve