I never thought that I would catch a criminal and that millions of people would know my name, but that is the way everything turned out for me. What seemed like a peaceful much needed vacation away from my family and friends turned into so much more. It all started just a couple weeks after my high school graduation. My mom and dad are still mad about my whole travel around the world idea. They still have not gotten over how I did not apply for any colleges. Everyday for the past two weeks at least one of them tells me the name of some college and then all of the majors available there. I have tried to tell them many times that I am still going to college, but not anytime in the near future. They saw my plan of traveling the world as an immature decision, but it is my decision. I had already planned everything out, my first stop and my last stop. My departure day has finally come and my parents did not expect it to be this early. “What do you mean you’re leaving,” my mother said in shock an almost in tears. “I’m leaving today. I’ve told both of you when I was leaving several ti...
“I love you, I’m going to stay with your father and Nia, she can’t survive out there,” she sadly said.
even if it meant going somewhere that I had always hated going before. When I
I've seen how you two have bonded, and I can't separate you two just because I'm scared. I'm going to my mother's. I just need to cool down and think things through. Maybe I'll calm down and then I'll come back, but for now I - I just need my space."
“We need to leave for school or you might be late,” my mom yelled from the front porch.
You don’t have your parents to look after you, to tell you right from wrong. By the time you go to college you are supposed to know the difference between right and wrong. You, as an adult, are expected to act like it. If you do something wrong there will be consequences and you are supposed to accept them. For example, if you did something wrong in high school your school would end up calling your parents; however, in college that doesn’t happen you need to deal with it. In college you have to be responsible to succeed. It’s all up to you in the
I yelled at them, ignored them, and occasionally did the opposite they told me too. At the time, I thought that made me better than them, but in the end, it got me nowhere. Soon I entered high school and my bratty preteen-self calmed down. However, my parents became stricter on my grades because there was a big milestone that would be coming up in a few years, getting accepted into college. My parents made it very clear that if I did not get a large scholarship to any university, I would have to go to the local community college. That was the last thing I wanted to happen, I wanted out of the house. I now had a strong incentive to do well in school. I wanted to be able to go out on my own and escape their tight grasp on me. I completed year after year, always making “A’s” in my classes. I soon climbed to the top of my school’s ranking system and was at the top of my class. Though, this did not matter to me, I wanted out of my house. At this point, I knew I was not disappointing my parents, they were as proud as can be with a daughter at the top of her class. This was the first time in my life that I felt as if my parents were generally proud of me and my accomplishments. I still however, felt guilty. Even though I was doing it for myself, I felt bad that I wanted to escape my parents. I did not hate them, I just could not stand being under their control
“I don’t want to do this anymore.” I expressed to my mother who was sitting at the table.
"If this is what you really want, then you should have no problem leaving this house...for good." He said. I gasped.
“I’m sorry. Mom told me whenever I get lost to stay put. So I didn’t want to move or you wouldn’t me and I didn’t say anyth---.”
I understand the importance of education and where it could take me at a very young age. While I went through high school I went in with the mentality that I wanted to make my parents as proud as possible. I wanted to have a future so that I could return the favor to my parents for them being that best parents anyone could as for. Throughout my first couple of years how high school my parents satisfied as long as I was passing, but they always heard my complaints when I did not make all A’s. By the last two years of my high school they expected me to be getting all A’s and seemed disappointed when I didn’t get them all. Never anger or mean about it, they just expected much more out of me, that’s how it has been all my life, and that’s how it will always
“Lauren! Let’s go!” My mom yelled from the bottom of the stairs, interrupting my thoughts.
My journey to Brazil it was just like a dream that come true, I remember when I decided to change myself but I couldn’t find what really would make me take the first step, so the journey to Brazil has done me a favor , it was the first step to what I really wanted to accomplish, I was shy and unsocial but in this journey I had changed ,I had started to talk with strangers and make friendships with everyone and that was inner challenge for me and I never
This summer we went to my family reunion in California. We were staying at my cousin’s house, and when we pulled in the driveway there was cops asking him questions about what happened. We learned that he had been robbed; soon the crime scene investigator showed up and let me follow around the house and help him take
I was taking my time with my decision and my parents were not happy that I was home instead of joining college. They then asked me to take A-Levels in law and business which I reluctantly agreed to in order to please them and get them off my back. Shortly after enrolling, I realized I found law really tough but I was determined to not waste my parents money so I persevered on. Fast-forward two years later, Im still trying to pass my Law papers. Finally I decided to tell my parents that I could not do this course anymore and they agreed. So for the next few months I was evaluating all my options on what to next. I decided to enroll myself in Help University Foundation in arts program because I felt it was a program that I could excel in could lead me to a degree in Accounting & Finance which is my goal. As an extra incentive for me achieve my goal, I paid for part of my fees when I enrolled in order to keep me motivated and
I started college ten years ago with the hopes of graduating back in 2010. That dream was derailed multiple times due to my life being “more about the past than their future,” (Palahniuk, 1999, p. 117) but in the fall of 2015, I started for a third time and proved to myself that I do have the determination to continue this dream. As for my parents, they’ve helped support me each time I tried my hand at school. They are the first people I’ve called after receiving a grade on a tough exam or assignment I’ve worked hours on, they’ve let me read them papers or presentations for opinions on flow and content, and they encourage me to try my hardest, to never give up. I would love to repay their hours of support by finishing my bachelors for them