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Experiences that Changed my Life
None of my problems are different from other people’s problems. However, what I believe is that some of them should not come too fast in anybody’s life; they can change lives completely for good or for bad. Furthermore, there are two things I consider that they came too fast in my life, but also there is one that came in the right moment. I am learning how to deal, live, and learn from them. In addition, I know each of them have a reason for why they happened. Also, those things have taken me in the place I am right now. And, although two of them are tough hits in my life, I am glad they happened, because they made me see life differently now. In addition, those things are the ones that make me stronger each day.
First it all, one of the tough hits happened to me at the age of 12 years old. This was the divorce of my mother and my father. To be honest, I was happy that they were separating from each other. I didn’t want to see my father put a hand on my mother again. Furthermore, due to my father abuse against my mother, she wanted to commit suicide. She used to tell me that she would be happy if she was dead. I wish I never have heard those words because they hurt a lot when I remember them. In addition, I believe those words hit me harder than the scene of seeing my father hitting my mother. However, that divorce changed my life for better. It made me grow fast as a person, and it made me more mature.
The second tough hit that came to my life fast was the death of my sister. As a result of her death, I fell in a big deep depression. I didn’t want to eat or hang out with my friends. Furthermore, I was just thinking in ending my life. And despite that death brought me sadness; it also brought me my mother. I say this because when my mother and my father got divorce, so my mother decided to came to United States. She wanted a better life for my siblings and I. Furthermore, she did what she promised, but she forgot something

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