What Social Factors Have Shaped Me Into The Person I Am Today

There are many different social factors that have shaped me into the person I am today. Growing up, my family was very religion and never missed early service, Sunday morning, in the catholic church. Being young, I just assumed that church every Sunday morning was what everyone in the world did and that Catholicism was the only religion that existed. This did shape me into a great human, don’t get me wrong, but I later began to despise the ideas that came along with the bible. I was taught what was right and wrong and morals at a young age, which I am proud of, but I wish that I wasn’t brainwashed by some of the terrible things that my parents believed and lived by. My parents were very racist and discriminatory towards the sexual orientations

In that month, his job laid him off, forcing us to move in with my dads’ brother and we became very poor. My family decided that it would be best for my brother and I to finish our seventh and eighth grade year before moving back to Tennessee, where majority of our family lived. This time in my life was the hardest I have ever had to go through. I had never seen my father so disappointed in himself and it was very hard to see that every day. Later talking to him after growing up, he told me that he felt that he let us down and didn’t fulfill his responsibilities as a parent. This would then be the biggest struggle of my life. My family had no money and had to rely on people in my extended family to pay the bills, house payment and everything else in between. I couldn’t go on my eighth-grade trip that everyone went on and by that time my friends had found out that my family was struggling. Being at that age, it is hard to be the kid who is struggling because it’s all about materialistic things and that is how you are judged. No one wants to be friends with the poor girl, who can’t even afford to go to the football games on Friday night or even the