Why My Mom Saved My Life Essay
“Why My Parents Divorce Saved Me and My Mother”
When I was about six years old, my mom went into a psychic’s shop. My mother was afraid of nothing, but having never been to one, you could tell she was nervous. The lady was older, she had a kind face and a kind smile. She read my moms palms and talked about the recent stress my mother was under, as it does fall on a newly single mother. When it came to my mother's children, she told her 4 futures, one for each of my sibling and myself. One would become a lawyer, one stay home and would start a family, one would travel far from home, and one would be famous. This was a topic of argument in our family and we still can't decide who is who. I only knew one thing in my life: I had to be the one to travel far away. Growing up in my hometown you had few options in life. Most people stay their entire lives. They don't dream of more, if they do, the idea is repressed by the people who raised them. Living there my whole life, I met few people who left the state to follow their paths to success. My mom was a teacher, but she always wanted more for us. She stayed almost her whole life. She married a simple man, she had kids, and she was expected to stay there until the day she died. …show more content…
However, I stayed behind with my father in his quaint home. A home with more luxuries than the home my mother and I shared before she left. We parted with a promise that I would return to her later in the year, but I couldn't uphold to that. I stayed behind and lived the life I was expected to lead. I would get good grades, I would go to school, come home. But my life was boring. I was bored of the simplicity in the life and in my father. He was a traditional man, whose biggest dream for me was to go to the nearby community college, graduate and start a
When I was about six years old, my mom went into a psychic’s shop. My mother was afraid of nothing, but having never been to one, you could tell she was nervous. The lady was older, she had a kind face and a kind smile. She read my moms palms and talked about the recent stress my mother was under, as it does fall on a newly single mother. When it came to my mother's children, she told her 4 futures, one for each of my sibling and myself. One would become a lawyer, one stay home and would start a family, one would travel far from home, and one would be famous. This was a topic of argument in our family and we still can't decide who is who. I only knew one thing in my life: I had to be the one to travel far away. Growing up in my hometown you had few options in life. Most people stay their entire lives. They don't dream of more, if they do, the idea is repressed by the people who raised them. Living there my whole life, I met few people who left the state to follow their paths to success. My mom was a teacher, but she always wanted more for us. She stayed almost her whole life. She married a simple man, she had kids, and she was expected to stay there until the day she died. …show more content…
However, I stayed behind with my father in his quaint home. A home with more luxuries than the home my mother and I shared before she left. We parted with a promise that I would return to her later in the year, but I couldn't uphold to that. I stayed behind and lived the life I was expected to lead. I would get good grades, I would go to school, come home. But my life was boring. I was bored of the simplicity in the life and in my father. He was a traditional man, whose biggest dream for me was to go to the nearby community college, graduate and start a