What Does Being Acorn Mean To Me Essay

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As a child grows into adulthood, we learn and develop with the help of those around us. We rely on love, positive influence, and trust. Mighty oaks from little acorns grow; but a tree does not grow without help. Without water, sunlight, or air, a little acorn remains just that. Growing up without a father, I often felt similar to an acorn missing water, but as I grew older I realized that wasn’t the case. I had water, but it wasn’t rain. If I were an acorn, then I sprouted in a community garden. As I grew into a sapling, and the rain stopped falling, the community would help me grow. From my mother: the sun in the sky, to my grandparents: who kept me warm when the night was long, to my stepfather who could only be described as the fertilizer who made me strong, who taught me lessons that could be taught by nobody else, I was able to grow with a better life than any acorn could dream of.
Occasionally, I wonder how life would have been different had he stayed, and in recent times I have connected more dots as to the man he is through my interactions with him. As far as I can remember, I’ve spoken with him on the phone three times, and he has texted me intermittently since I’ve had a phone of my own. The most recent of these calls is one I will never forget. On Monday, January …show more content…

He wasn’t happy in life, he had demons of his own. Hearing from me was less painful for him than it was to know innately that he had made mistakes he could never fix. So no matter the deceptive, manipulative, self-centered, self-deprecating things he has done since, whether it was attempting to use my half-brothers with his lies, or using his conversations with me as a way to pay pocket change in child support, or texting me occasionally in a brazen act of cowardice, attempting to use me yet again, I don’t allow him to hurt me, for if I am to be a mighty oak someday, I can’t get mad at the birds who poop on my

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