Narrative Essay
June 30, 2013
English 0900
Final Draft
Narrative Essay My life changing decision wasn’t exactly a decision I made for myself. In 2011 I walked into Wal-Mart with a friend and left with a police officer behind me leading me to his car in cuffs. That day was the first day of the rest of my life. I was on my way to the Illinois Department of Corrections, better known as prison. Sometimes when people end up in prison they decide it is time to change their life. Before I went to prison my life was all about getting high. On a daily basis I was going out and getting high on meth without even really caring what was going on at my house. My drug use led to me spending all my money so I started stealing to get my high. Because i spent all my money I was no longer able to pay my rent or my bills which lead to me getting evicted. I had hit rock bottom but I still wasn’t able to give up my drug use. When i got evicted my daughters fathers family let me and my daughter move in with them and I was trying to make them believe that everything was okay with me. Never did I imagine that there was a plan for my life that was being set in place every day. On August 16, 2011 I woke up and it was a normal day, I walked into Wal-Mart with my daughters’ cousin and my daughter. Less than an hour later I was saying good bye to my daughter knowing it was the last time for a while that I was going to get to see her. I was being arrested for theft, spending seventeen months away from everyone. While I was in prison, although the first few months I thought it was the worst possible place for me, I learned that I could be a better person. I used every resource they had to learn how to stay clean, be a better mom, and to say no to steal. The first few months I spent in my cell going through a detox getting all the drugs from my system and not really focusing on the big picture. After all the drugs were out of my system and I was no longer having night sweats and dreams of getting
English 0900
Final Draft
Narrative Essay My life changing decision wasn’t exactly a decision I made for myself. In 2011 I walked into Wal-Mart with a friend and left with a police officer behind me leading me to his car in cuffs. That day was the first day of the rest of my life. I was on my way to the Illinois Department of Corrections, better known as prison. Sometimes when people end up in prison they decide it is time to change their life. Before I went to prison my life was all about getting high. On a daily basis I was going out and getting high on meth without even really caring what was going on at my house. My drug use led to me spending all my money so I started stealing to get my high. Because i spent all my money I was no longer able to pay my rent or my bills which lead to me getting evicted. I had hit rock bottom but I still wasn’t able to give up my drug use. When i got evicted my daughters fathers family let me and my daughter move in with them and I was trying to make them believe that everything was okay with me. Never did I imagine that there was a plan for my life that was being set in place every day. On August 16, 2011 I woke up and it was a normal day, I walked into Wal-Mart with my daughters’ cousin and my daughter. Less than an hour later I was saying good bye to my daughter knowing it was the last time for a while that I was going to get to see her. I was being arrested for theft, spending seventeen months away from everyone. While I was in prison, although the first few months I thought it was the worst possible place for me, I learned that I could be a better person. I used every resource they had to learn how to stay clean, be a better mom, and to say no to steal. The first few months I spent in my cell going through a detox getting all the drugs from my system and not really focusing on the big picture. After all the drugs were out of my system and I was no longer having night sweats and dreams of getting