“Love will conquer all”
Life without love is like life without oxygen. Eventually we would be lifeless. I once was a lifeless girl. I felt as if I did not have anything or anyone to live for. My parents could not care about me, because they were too busy fighting their own demons. When I was 12 I ran away from the horror of my mother. The only reason I survived for the amount of years I did is because, I had the love of my sisters and brother. One by one I watched my sisters be placed in foster care. I was slowly becoming empty and hopeless inside. After years of torment and physical abuse I could no longer take anymore. I ended up getting in contact with my father and moving with him. Life was good for a couple of years. I was still kind of empty, because I had to leave some of my siblings behind. Overall I felt like I made the right decision. That all changed when I eventually realized my father had a growing drug addiction. Some days when I would come home from school, money I had been saving would be gone. I would ask my father if he took my money and he would say, "I am going to give it back, I spent it gambling." After months of hearing this line I knew for a fact it was a lie. My money being missing was not the only sign that my father was an addict. His treatment of me progressively turned into mental abuse. He often belittled me
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At this point I was no longer numb, but vulnerable. I needed somebody to just drown me with love, and what better place to visit than the home of my siblings. Something inside of me believed so desperately my mother had changed; that she would welcome me with opened arms, and I would be reunited with some of my siblings. So I returned to my old place of torment full of hope. Nothing could have prepared me for her response. As I rang the doorbell I was neither welcomed or loved. I watch her peep out the door and close it in my face after she realized it was
As most would likely find it common, all three interviewees had their greatest loss pertaining to death. Susan, Liz, and Dave all went through a period of struggle when losing someone they loved dearly. Susan lost her father, Liz lost her brother, and Dave lost his brother. With each interview being very distinct from one another, specific parts of each interview stood out from the rest. For instance, in Susan's interview, the words she used to describe what she lost stood out. There was an intense amount of emotion when she replied to the question with "how do you describe when you lose a dad" and then used the words "unconditional love". Going into Liz's interview, there were numerous things that stood out to me. First and foremost, was the
I walked into the room on New Year’s Day and felt a sudden twinge of fear. My eyes already hurt from the tears I had shed and those tears would not stop even then the last viewing before we had to leave. She lay quietly on the bed with her face as void of emotion as a sheet of paper without the writing. Slowly, I approached the cold lifeless form that was once my mother and gave her a goodbye kiss.
So my sister, mom and I picked up and followed him to Tomball, Texas. After three months, my sister started getting bullied in Tomball High School so we decided to move back to Robinson, and my dad had to take back his old position. After this move my sister had graduated from Robinson High School and had moved out on her own. I was about ten years old when my dad decided to quit his job and we could no longer afford to live in Robinson, so we moved to Marlin, Texas. Marlin is where all father’s side of the family is from that’s why we considered it as a smart move to make at first, but after six months of gang violence, drug addicts and sellers, and alcoholics we had no choice but to move back to Robinson, Texas where we bought a house and now have lived in for six
“This is a simple story but not an easy one to tell. This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.” – Giosué Orefice. Raising a child is already an extremely draining and difficult job, and the fact that Guido Orefice repeatedly made sacrifices for his son just shows how caring he is. In the movie Life is Beautiful, I believe that Guido made the right decision telling Giosué that the horrific things they experienced during their time in the concentration camp was a game. I know this because by doing so, Guido kept Giosué’s innocence and he gave his son another reason to see the brighter side of every situation and to work to survive the camp.
Nearly 52% of adults claimed to believe in love at first sight, but do they know what causes it (Carlson, 2001, par 2). There are many views on how or why people fall in love at first sight. Researchers have traveled in many different directions with their studies of what causes love instantly. Psychology, biology, and myths about our souls splitting on the way to Earth then being reunited are all causes of love at first sight according to scientist (Cohen, 2013, par 3). Couples often want to say they fell in love instantly to create a romantic gesture towards their significant other, or to make their relationship sound desired.
It had come to the attention of my family that I had some sort of psychological problem and something had to be done. I was always labeled as a shy and quiet kid, and like my family I had thought nothing more of my behavior. However, now it had become something more obvious. I had told my parents the kinds of problems I was having. Basically I didn't want to talk to anyone or to be anywhere near anyone I didn't know. I didn't really want to leave my house for any reason for fear that I might have to talk to someone. I was so critical and scrutinizing in relation to myself that I couldn't even enter into a conversation. Everyone seems to have a part of themselves that lends itself to thoughts of pessimism and failure, but mine was something that was in the forefront of my mind at all times. Something telling me that everything I did was a failure, and that anything I ever did would not succeed. Through discussion with my family it was decided that I should move out of my parents house to a place where I could find treatment and get a job. I was to reside with my sister Lisa, her partner Brynn, and their Saint Bernard in Greensboro.
I looked outside and saw my mom fall to her knees and cry as my grandma followed right behind her and did the same thing. I was as confused as to what was happening and where I was going but I looked at my sister and I grabbed her hand and said, “We are going to be ok”. We didn’t know where we were going, but we were soon to find out what it was like to be in the foster care system.
My first memories of my father were what I now know as active addiction, I would watch the chaos in my house, the abuse, both mental and physical and at the time I didn’t understand but as time went on it was apparent, at the age of 11, my father hung himself, although he did not die he cut off oxygen to his brain long enough to render him blind and incompetent to care for himself and he was place in a nursing home where he would reside for the next 25 years of my life. I swore I would never do drugs because I saw firsthand the destruction, but my family addiction did not stop there. My aunt was a daily drinker, my uncle was addicted to heroin, another aunt addicted to crack
How precarious is it to love someone without one single condition? Is it even possible? Many people talk about unconditional loving as if they practice it all the time, but in reality, not many men or women know what unconditional love truly entails! The majority of adults talk the talk, but they absolutely do not walk the walk.
I was given the choice to move in with my aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh so that my dad could focus on himself instead of being constantly worried about me. This was one of the hardest decisions that i have made so far. My dad is all i have ever known. he was there when i would fall and hurt myself. He was there when I was sick, and he was there for me when my mom died.
In retrospect it was a bad idea in the first place, but I wasn 't thinking ahead, I was lost in the moment. It started near the end of the school year. Everyone was either tense with stress from the inevitable finals coming, or ecstatic from the end of year.
There once was a girl who lived a happy life until the age of thirteen. Everything changed that day because that 's when her mother started emotionally, mentally, and verbally abusing her. The girl wanted nothing more than to be loved by her mother but that was not the case. Her mother thought that she was nothing than a worthless piece of garbage on the street. Every day the girl 's mom had something negative to say to the girl whether it was that she was stupid, worthless, or even someone who nobody wanted around. Every day the girl wished to be accepted by her mother, but she knew deep down that would never happen. The girl battled anxiety and depression disorder caused by her mother 's years of torture and abusive ways. The girl was on
What will happen if people live without love? In my point of view, without love I may lose my ability to survive in this world with no hope. Without love I can be defined as a rat living in the sewer, with no chance to see our beautiful land and with no chance to lighten up myself against the darkness. As well as, I may lose many opportunities of enjoyment both mentally and physically, when I do not know what love is.
Just imagine it, a handsome knight on his glorious stead his armor glinting in the sunlight while he removes his helmet swinging his beautiful and perfect hair with not a smudge of dirt or sweat on him after a battle, or maybe the gorgeous princess with long hair and porcelain perfect skin emerging from an eternal slumber that only her true love can break. Sound familiar? It should, considering nearly every child can picture the same images and nearly every adult can as well. These are the images that fairytales, children’s books, and movies feed us from a young age. All of them give us similar images, a princess rescued from peril caused by an evil stepmother, a knight slaying a dragon to find his true love. Nearly every person has been raised on the tales and it is no different from generation to generation, the medium is the only thing that changes.
I feel like people are always fighting every waking moment. Someone is always trying to prove that they are right or trying to prove what they want is best for “everyone”. They think what they are doing is in everyone’s best interest when in reality it is just tearing everyone apart by making everyone think differently, change what everyone would do and most importantly it changes them as a person. Thinking about how everything will change because one person messes up is hard to even comprehend. The hardest thing to understand is how people who are supposed to be “in love” can just fall out of love because one of them stopped caring about what their spouse was doing or what they thought which just led to both of them not trying anytime something would happened.