Maya Angelou Father

When you encounter someone, how do you remember them by? Perhaps you remember them by some catchy phrase they've said? Or perhaps it's something they did that made you keep them in your mind for so long. As for fellow American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou , she has stated that “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”. As for me I believe Maya Angelou is correct on the idealism of feelings keeping memories alive. To begin, Growing up without a fatherly figure is a miserable reality for many young Americans, I myself being one of those children that had no one to call “Dad” was a difficult reality. As years went by and I was just entering the beginning of my teenage years I was fortunate to have an older sister marry a guy named Edgar, a stranger who entered the lives of my family, and became almost as an older
Having to go to school 5 days a week from early in the mornings to late in the afternoon was very exhausting, looking towards the weekend to watch ‘Pokémon’. A japanese anime where the main character Ash goes on a long journey to be the best trainer in the series ,accompanied with 2 friends and a furry yellow mouse looking creature with red cheeks named Pikachu. Sure enough now as an adult I don't watch shows like these anymore simply because they’ve become too silly and childish for my taste, but I can always remember most of Ash’s journey with his friends. Not because of my good memory skills, but because of the way it made me feel while watching the show. After every long week of life draining school work, I always felt relaxed and upbeat watching Ash and his friends on wacky, ludacris adventures. This show was my big break from wimpy student to jolly