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Free Will Be A Bad Child Analysis

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Life, the most valuable thing humans have, can come and go with little effort. The difficult part of life is not the beginning or the ending, but rather the events that happen in the middle. A child can be born into a wealthy family, yet still live a poor life. The same is true for a child born in poverty, that despite the difficult upbringing, found wealth in every moment of life. There is always the misconception that a bad childhood always produces a bad child and that a good childhood creates good children. This is a simple way of thinking and a way that is, in theory correct, but this same theory never takes in consideration free will. Personally, I never considered free will, I thought that you were stuck with what you were born with …show more content…

As a child, I was not gifted with a wealthy family or with any comfort. My family, being immigrants had little to keep comfort and everyday was both a gift and an event of hardship. As the oldest child, you experience the burden of responsibilities very quickly, especially under complicated circumstances. Often, I refer to myself as the third parent, the one responsible for the care of four younger siblings when both parents had to work. Young children go through a phases of maturity, this phases is characterised with innocent selfishness were the child doesn’t care for anything but his or her self. Responsibilities eradicate this selfishness, I know this well. Yet, once in a while my mind would drift and I would find myself thinking, if my destiny was to live a life not for myself, then that life I would surely …show more content…

It’s understandable to think that an individual with misfortune wasn’t meant to succeed. Yet, all over the world there are those who obtain wealth and happiness without having it in the first place. A child cannot see the hope in this, but only once the child is mature can he or she look back at their parents and see how they resisted against the poor circumstances. Some may say that my family was destined to find happiness, but it’s those same people that didn’t see the hard work, time and pain that it took to have what we have today. Everyday I realise that my wealth doesn’t come in the form of money, rather in the choice to be happy and content with what I have. Society divides people up into social classes of wealthy, middle class and poor, but it’s not societies place to define individual

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