The Separation

Growing up in a household of 5 was difficult for me because I was the second youngest and wasn’t getting the attention from the parents that I wanted. Also, finding out that my parents were going to separate made it harder on me because I was in a detriment at the age of 10 to choose which parent I wanted to live with. My siblings and I decided to go live with my father, so once we moved in with my father, his other family was very welcoming and wonderful to us. I truly believed that I was going to live a good life and not have any more issues anymore but yet I was wrong. Growing up in the new house I began to notice my stepmother arguing with my two older sisters and they would fight almost every day until my sisters decided to move out. I was really despondent because my sisters left and I felt that my dad’s family didn’t want my family here. So I began to do badly in school, I would skip school 2 days a week and wouldn’t turn in any homework. I would get suspended from school once a month until I just got kick out from school for fighting and had to go to a different school. I would be fighting with my step brothers almost every day because they didn’t like the way I would treat and talk to their mom. I wouldn’t listen to my father and I would just talk back to him, that one day he hit me and I just ran off to my friends house and didn’t come home for about a week. I was so angry that I collaborated with my older brother to run away from the house and go live with my mother who really cared about me. So, one day I went back home and I realize that my younger sister would stay up all night crying about her family being apart and what kind of person I had become. Seeing her like that really hurt me and that’s when it hit me hard and I realized that what I was doing wasn’t good for me or my family. I began to change for my little sister because I wanted her to look up to me and do everything she can to become a better person than me. So, in high school I focused on getting good grades and also told my father to take me to therapy to work on my issues. Little by little I started to fix my anger issues and began passing all of my classes. I graduated from high school with good grades and now studying in college. I am now looking forward to transferring to a university to get my degree and live a wonderful life. I spent a lot of time with my sister and lead her on the right path of becoming a better person than me. Now in retrospect, my life is better than before and I couldn’t be any happier of who I have become for me and my sister who inspired me to change.