Life In High School
“If you go through anything and it doesn’t kill you, you’re alright.” She grabbed her daughters head and looked into her eyes “my dad uses too sexually harass me too and you know what my mom did?” The little girl shook her head helplessly in her mother’s hands, “beat me every night because I was taking her husband from her. So you see baby girl if it does not kill you. You made it through.” The little girl tears moisten her face.
I watch television listening to the horrifying words educated that young child in the wrong way. Even now, I can look back in agony and still feel the pain that some kids still go through everyday. I have grown to learn that going through these types of things should not break you it should encourage you to want to go out there and make a change.
My high school years were different, also hard to adjust too. In my tenth grade year, we relocated to a new county and my mom was a newly wed. My stepfather and I got along well, months past sexual abuse started. It went on for a while until my mother and he divorce. Going through that made me look at things differently, I learned that I should not dwell on past but learn from it. I want to be there for kids that went threw the same situation as me; neither social workers nor police officers were there for me.
Struggling through high school, my grades were not as good as they should have been. I never let that stop me and do not plan on letting it start. I may have messed up but I have always let my personality make up for it. My mother use to tell me, having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee. Cute I say, but it does not have to go towards children you can also use it towards life. You call your own shots in your future and set your own goals. This is also becoming the referee in your life, which leads me to Criminal Justice. The major I am taking up in order to reach my goal: to change people lives and give a helping hand to the needed. I am a caring...
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