The Legend Of My Life

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Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference. I was a great student at the time; never did I think about quitting. My family bloodline has nothing but warriors and legends. Every generation left there name in a way that people would remember. Now it 's my turn to show my family what I 'm capable of. The thing that makes me so different between my family and I is, I will be the one that will have the title of a legend at a young age. I keep telling my mother, " Don …show more content…

Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It 's all about light and shade. Balance." At a young age my life, if I were to tell it to my peers, was harsh in their opinion but normal in my opinion. house. Both of my brothers had so much potential to go to college but needed to put school aside so they could help my mother with the bills. During the struggling times a old man who was homeless would come by to give us food in order to sleep in a house. The old man was old and would tell me tales of his adventures. Every day he would tell me his stories he would always tell me in the end of his stories, " hey kid remember to not worry about losing things. It ain 't hard to go hard when you ain 't got shit." When I would get frustrated and get bullied constantly at my elementary school I would complain to him only for him to respond, " no time to play pussy when you fuck with lions." He told me a lot during the times we hanged out. During my young elementary times I always went to school smelling terrible because my family would use the same water to bathe in since we didn 't have enough money to waste water. My mother could have asked for money from her parents and sister but she knew that she must face her problems on her own. This made me the laughing stock of the school and nobody would like to be around me. I had no friends to communicate but that was okay for me, I knew that

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