Controversy: The Year That Changed My Life

My life has been full of controversy, drama, violence and lies. It started in my freshman year of high school when I discovered my mother and father had split after 15 years of marriage. My mother and I were sitting in the truck when I noticed my father’s garage key was in cup holder. I’d seen it there many times when my mother kicked my father out of the house but it felt real this time. She turned and told me “he’s not coming back this time” I was relived at first but I finally thought that we weren’t finically ready for this after just moving into our new home. We did okay for the first few months but things eventually got tight with money, so I made it a priority to not ask for much. But of course I was a teenager always “needing” something new or having an
attitude about something ridiculous. My mother and I grew apart due to my father not being in the house to give me the discipline, out of nowhere I fell into a depression. At 15 years old I began to take prescription drugs, before I knew it I’d become addicted to something that was hurting and damaging my body. The pills relaxed me, it made me feel comfortable with the mistakes (school) that I was making at the time. As soon as I thought that life was looking up I was rudely awakened when I met this guy who I thought what was I needed. The kids around school called him Baby D and it was “puppy love” of course but as a younger teen I seemed to be boy crazy. At the time I believed every word he said because I thought there was no one who loved me. I gave that boy my virtue, innocence and I started to treat myself like nothing.
I began to not attending to school and doing more drugs that landed me a spot in alternative school. I stayed in the alternative school for year before moving on to the regular school where I was a sophomore. Before I knew it I was failing school with no room to improve enough to continue to the next grade, so I was left with no choice to change up what I was doing. On July 21, 2016 I entered the Finch Henry Job Corps and I was determined to have to change my life for the better. Life has been better I am now a certified and licensed CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) and currently working on my high-school diploma. After I finish I plan on taking my ACT’S so I can apply for LPN (Licensed Practicing Nurse) at a local community college eventually my dreams are to be a RN (Registered Nurse). I’ve blessed enough to do things in life and make it out unscathed, I’m determined to push forward and make something out if myself. I never saw myself in the medical field but it makes me feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to. My first time in a nursing home I was a beginning clinical trial as a CNA I knew then that this was the job for
me. I worked with older women who told me there tragic stories that changed their lives for the worse. I knew then and there that I had a responsibility as a young women to be a humble worker for those who are helpless. That’s my reason for existence to help and understand that I am not bigger than any person. I’ve been given the strength to move people in ri