Adversity Changed My Life

As we grow up we all go through some kind of adversity that can lead to something good or even something worse in the end. While I was growing up, I experienced a huge change that I thought would make my life terrible, well at least I to me it did. I had to move from living with my father to moving in with my mother. This change affected me emotionally, but also changed my life for the better. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for this change in my life. When my parents got a divorce, and remarried our family started to go downhill. Our step mother wasn’t very welcoming towards my siblings and I, which caused a huge problem between my family overtime. As time went on things got a little better, but then as we grew older and time went
Thinking nothing could get worse, things began to. I became extremely unhappy because I had to start over without having my father by my side the whole way. Not having him there with me when I had to start a new school was even harder for me. When I started the new school I was completely nervous, thinking that I wouldn’t make any friends. But then I was wrong, I ended up making a friend on my first day. Trying to make new friends was the one thing I was so worried about, since I was so young. After I had to leave my father I felt nothing good was happening for me. He was my world, my best friend. My dad was the one person I looked up to because he raised me. When I moved I felt like a huge piece of my heart was missing. That’s when I began to go downhill emotionally. I didn’t know how to just move on since I moved in with someone I hardly knew, and that is when I thought my life couldn’t get any better, but I was wrong in the
Emilee is still my friend today, she has been my best friend for five years now. She helped me believe that my life wasn’t as bad as I thought it was, because of her I realized the move was going to make my life better. She made me realized that starting over is the best thing for me because I could become a better person. Emilee was completely right, I changed my attitude and changed what I thought was a bad point in my life to a better point in my life. Lastly, my mother was the biggest reason why I changed my attitude. I thought I lost the most important person, but she showed me I just gained someone who will be even more important to me. My mother and I became really close when I moved in with her. If it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be who I am today. I changed my whole outlook in life, she turned a bad experience for such a young girl into the best thing that could ever happen to a girl. I felt important, loved, and even more because of my mother. She is the one that convinced me that the moved was the best thing that could have ever happen to me. After I realized they were right I it completely changed my life so much. Just because something is bad doesn’t mean it can’t become a great thing in the