My parents had been the people I can always count on. When they decided to get a divorce, I felt like my whole life had been turned upside down. I started to doubt everything I was doing in life. How can two people who seem so perfect for each other just decide to call it quits? I couldn’t understand why, how can something like this happen to me? I felt so isolated, I believed nobody could possibly understand what I was going through. I believed that because of my parents’ divorce, nothing good was ever going to happen to me. I lost faith and hope in life. I started to act up, rebel against my mom. I started to hang out with people who weren’t a good influence on me. I didn’t see the point of excelling in school. My grades started to slip and I was getting into trouble. I was lost, a person living day by day with no goal or purpose. All I thought about was that my father had left me, a person I have looked up to my whole life. However, my mother who now has to support five children, gave me a different …show more content…
At the age of 16, I decided to apply for my first job. I was so scared that I wasn’t going to get it, but my mom’s determination to raise all five of us, made me think that there was nothing to be afraid of, and that anything was possible. A few months later, this job gave me the opportunity to purchase my first car. Never in a million years had I thought I would be able to purchase my first car at such a young age. Many people wouldn’t see this as a huge accomplishment, but to me this is very important. All the self-doubting I had in my life was slowly disappearing. Now I can see myself with a bright