Happy Family Essay

As a young child, my parents were my number one, they were

everything to me. Every birthday, holiday, even every moment of
happiness, sadness, and hardship were all experienced around
both my parents. I loved them and they loved me, yes we did
have our challenges, but at the end of the day we were happy
and there was nothing in my mind that could ever take something
that beautiful away from me. Although I do struggle and wish I
had a happy childhood, what matters most is that my family is
together, maybe not physically but at heart, and we work together
every day to fight challenges that we face.
We lived in a nice house in Tempe, Arizona; the house was big
and had many adventures for both my sister and I to explore. We
loved it there! My …show more content…
My parents had dug a hole of debt and slowly we were losing
everything. We lost our house 2 times, some of our vehicles, and
more importantly one another. Though still being a child and yet
old enough to know things weren’t good, I kept my siblings close
and protected them from the devastation I was going through
watching my parents tear our family apart. As time went on,
problems got much bigger and scarier, and before I knew it, they
were signing papers for a …show more content…
I had a rough day and I felt as though I couldn’t hang on any
longer, the pain was too much, I couldn’t keep walking a
senseless walk.
“Why am I doing this?’ I would ask myself
“Why is this happening to me, isn’t there any other way?” As I sat
in the car waiting to go home all those questions were soon
answered by the song called Stronger by Mandisa. Hearing this
song was a relief and was sweet and gentle to my ears. I don’t
remember ever needing to hear something so desperately in my
entire life, and still to this day. It was the type of song that I
craved, it fulfilled the hunger that lingered within me, that space
was finally all taken away.