Personal Narrative

My Life

Growing up for me was not as easy as it may have appeared to be. When I was 10 my mother died of a heart attack. After my mom died things seem to go downhill I ended up moving with my grandmother. Things started to get better when I had my daughter Malay; when I was 21.

One night when my sister, my brother, and myself were asleep; my brother got up to use the bathroom and he found our mother lying on the floor in her room. Considering that she was not moving; he went to check if she was breathing, but she wasn’t. My brother whose name is Maurice ran into me and my sister Kierras’ room screaming “something is wrong with our mom”. When he said that we woke up and ran to see what was going on. When we got into the room she was still lying on the floor; we tried calling her name, she didn’t respond. We ended up calling the police. The police came and got our mother as the ambulance was taking her away we were crying and screaming for her. The next day our grandmother came and got my sister and I, so that we could stay with her and my brother went to live with our aunt. Although it was hard not seeing our mothers’ smiling face we knew that she was in a better place because our grandmother had explained everything to us. The only thing that we knew was that our mother did not wake up and that she was not breathing. We just did not know why this was happening. My sister and I kept in touch with our brother daily we hated being away from each other we were just that close.

Losing my mother resulted in me not graduating I made it to the 11th grade and dropped out because I wasn’t getting the proper help that I should have been getting. I ended up getting a job at the baseball field. I like the job that I had but it was not something that I could see myself doing for a long period of time.

When I turned 20 I had my daughter Malay when I had her things got so much better. I just knew that my mother was in heaven smiling down on me. Even though she was not there she was still watching. The moment I had her nothing else in my life seemed to matter. All my worries and trouble seemed to be over. I moved to Indiana to start a better life, but things did not go as planned so moved back home. When I got back to my hometown I moved with my aunt. While living with her I got a job. I was happy that I actually found a job that I liked. Even though I moved a lot and went through a lot in my life; I am so happy to say that I now have a 3 year old that is the center of my world. I also have a girlfriend that has a son that I love as if he were my own.

I feel as though I have accomplished so much in my life and overcame so many obstacles that I can achieve anything that I set my mind to. I work at the chicken plant making almost $5 more than what I was making at my old jobs and I am back in school getting my high school diploma. feel as though my mother would be very proud of me because I did come a long way from where I first was.