Honestly, integrity and hard work perhaps the most important traits I value, and it’s a very handy tool to have on your journey through adulthood and beyond. Born and raise in a small and border town which no one has ever heard before and could care less about it unless if you like to gamble. However, it wasn't all that bad. In a simpler time, which I miss so much when there were less technology and more of an outdoors and family oriented kind of life. A time where all you needed was honesty, integrity and hard work and your set for life, but those times have passed. There just distance memories now. Although I grew very poor and without parents, I was grateful I had my brothers and grandma through it all. My brothers and I were like …show more content…
Eventually, I and my brothers would be homeless so long and have us do desperate thing in surviving. Eating from trash cans, beg, and gladly work whenever offer, but times were changing eventually there were no jobs, and even the ones there were giving to the ground men mainly because they didn’t think we can handle the work or needed the job. If they only knew. Although there were ice cold winters, and burning summers none will compare to that ice cold rainy morning. I remember like it was yesterday. It was anything but a normal day but remained a school day like any other day at least for those who were fortunate. While the bus was picking up the students, my brothers and I were desperately trying to find shelter with nothing but the underwear stepping on puddles, cover in rain and my youngest baby brothers crying in my shoulders when the school bus passed by. when the student saw us, and started to point, and laugh at out misfortune. Since that day, I have sworn to myself that I would never let my future family go through that no matter what it takes. Unfortunately, that day didn’t just affect me, it also had a negative effect on both of my brothers and no matter how hard I try to convince them that there was still a chance to be successful in life as long if you always do the right thing. Moral of the story I lost both them that