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My Childhood and Motivation to Succeed Essay

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Strength, independence, and perseverance are some of the positive traits my father taught me along with several negative traits such as anger, distrust for others, and hatred toward men. My mom was a single mother from the start. As she delivered me, he sat inside of a jail cell. When he was out of the penitentiary, he would run away from his family to do drugs and meet women. He would often walk out on us without any warning and return at any time. I did not understand, especially as a child, how significant of an impact his vanishing act would bestow upon me. I grew to be distrusting of others, because if my dad would let me down, then so would everyone else. I became bitter at the world and everyone it encompassed. I blamed my father’s …show more content…

My mother was just as surprised as us to wake up and see that he had left. She would hold my brother and me and tell us that everything would be all right. She would try to hold back the tears that were falling off her face and onto our cheeks, and at that moment we were all vulnerable. Once she gathered herself she would hold us tighter and reassure us that we would all be just fine. The three of us became a closer family because we knew that we needed one another in order to manage without my father.
My father physically abused my mother, and she decided that it was time to get my brother and me out of my father’s reach. We moved to Minnesota because my aunt and uncle lived in the area. After living with my relatives for a while, my aunt and uncle had a physical confrontation and my mother called the police for their conduct. My uncle was taken and my aunt kicked us out of their house. We had nowhere to go and were forced to live in a homeless shelter. While there, my mother worked to save up money for an apartment and went to school to obtain a degree to be a medical assistant. She finally saved enough money that we were able to leave the shelter and live in a small apartment. She was reliable and everything else a child could wish for in a parent; she worked nearly 11 hour shifts, provided home cooked meals, drove nearly a half an hour drive for work, and still had enough energy to show us how

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