Often, people tend to encounter emotional, physical, and mental obstacles in life, allowing them to interfere with achieving their goals. Growing up around a family who has allowed drug abuse, alcoholism, teen pregnancy, dropping out of high school, and other obstacles to hinder their success, it has caused them to be imprisoned, struggle with welfare, not attend college and not being good role models. Having went through my own personal struggles, I decided to use my family’s negative experiences to set positive goals for myself. I refused to allow my family’s patterns, and my obstacles, to negatively define who I am today, and even more important, who I will become in the future.
I am the only teenager in my family who does not get in trouble with the law and does not abuse drugs or alcohol. I
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Ultimately, I am the most privileged in my family. I attend a private college preparatory high school and I have a mother who provides for me well, despite her own challenging circumstances with teenage pregnancy. However, people have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. My life is not as flawless as many perceive. My own challenging circumstances began when my parents split up when I was three years old. Ever since then, my father has not been a major figure in my life. Because of this instability, my mother and I have had to move approximately fifteen different times; never have I had a stable place to call "home." I have grown up with little to no relationship with my mother. Yes, she does provide for me financially, but unfortunately I have never received the amount of love