How Change Has Shaped My Life

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I believe in change is good. I believe change has greatly shaped my life. Without change I wouldn't be where I am today, mentally and socially. One of the greatest changes in my life was when I was five years old and a fire burned down my house, and almost all of our belongings.This has greatly shaped my life, without it I wouldn't be where I am today. My family and I lived in the mountains above Chico, in a place called Concow. My father had built a cabin for my mother and I along with my two younger brothers, but at that time we were living in a school bus. It was the middle of the night when I had gotten up out of bed to go to the restroom, after I walked out I turned and being the small five year old I was I was greatly confused at

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