Liz Murray Homeless

From Homeless to Harvard
Imagine, being a child of drug addicted parents, losing your apartment at the age of 16, becoming homeless, and having no one to truly depend on except yourself, this woman Liz Murray has been through countless circumstances. Murray saw herself wanting to be something more than just being homeless and a daughter of drug addicts. She turned around the odds that were against her. Learning about her and the horrific childhood she went through it shows people their present does not have to be their future. Liz Murray overcame drug addicted parents, exhibited passion to create a better future for herself, and displayed how independent she was.
Liz Murray overpowered being raised by drug addicted parents. She did not live
My mother was a teenage parent, and my father was not much of a father. My mother struggled with money issues, while also trying to make time for school. I never was homeless, but we never had a place that was just ours until I got around the age of 11. She soon became finically stable, finished school and received many degrees. She had changed her life around and made for a better childhood and future for us. She was determined to overcome the obstacles that came our family’s way. I am also determined to never let what my mom had to go through arise again, nor let it arise on just me. Liz Murray did not just show me how she overcame drug addicted parents, buts she also showed how passionate she
Without the passion she felt in her heart, she might not have made it to where she is. Liz says, “There was a feeling in my heart that I want so badly to be transferred to every person I meet, which is that passion I felt for what would happen I just kept going”(TEDXYouth 9:06). Murray believed in any circumstance people should push through it and accomplish what their dreams are. If more people would persevere, a lot of dreams would be reality. Persevere is what helped her get from being homeless, helped her get to Harvard, and helped her become an inspirational speaker. Alongside being passionate, she was also independent.
Throughout her journey, she showed how self-reliant she was. Murray had no ones to shoulder to lean on expect her own. Murray explains, “I became very self-sufficient. If I needed something, it was me and the world” (Rubis para 3). Majority of her whole life she had no one, because she was eldest of all her siblings, and her parents were either high or unresponsive. She had faced the world alone at the age of 16. For her to reach the life she wanted, she had to trust in herself and what she knew she could