Personal Narrative: Life Before And After High School

My parents had to act like adults at an early age. My dad was 14 when he moved out and into his first apartment, with my mom. Barely making it out of highschool college was out of the option. Starting from basically nothing it's hard to imagine riding on nothing for most of your teenage and young adult life. They didn't have a plan and certainly didn't think to start making one then. If they saw that a place was hiring they applied. if they found a place to get food and clothes at a lesser price then took what they could afford. They made the best out of what they had for a long time. This effects me in the way that I was taught that if I wanted something I had to go and get it and not expect it to be handed to me. If I wanted to make a new friend I was the one who had to put myself out there and say hi.
If I wanted good grades in a class I would have to work for what I got.
I think by staying in the present you appreciate more of what that moment has to offer. You don't allow yourself to get distracted by what you think is going to happen in the future. Just think if all the times that you worried about something in the future and then getting to that moment and realizing that wasn't as bad as you thought it was going to be. All that time you wasted torturing yourself by worrying could be spent acknowledging the present. Although my parents are religions and thank god for all that they have, I think that it was them who were strong enough and willing to provide themselves with what they needed at moments notice. It's not fair to have worked that hard and not get
credit.