You ask me why am I unique? The Trials and tribulations I have experienced and the people that were placed in my life is what molded me to be the man I am today. Growing up in Birmingham, AL I witnessed violence, drug addiction, and even death at an early age. Coming from a under performing household that is without a father figure made living comfortably impossible. Every week me and my brothers would see the "cable man", "water man", or the "electric man" come turn off our appliances and we would also see our mother beg them to give her another week to pay. Seeing me my mom fight so hard to give us a good life but all her efforts would just fail got to me; my mom would be kind to everybody, she even sheltered people and fed people even if she had to lose a room or a bed. I …show more content…
But Sooner or later I ended up developing a nonchalant mindset and my performance and even my appearance in school begin to fade away, I gave up on religion at this point as well. Later on in life I ended up running track to give myself a reason to go to school, not knowing how much track would change my life. While running track a run a time that most kids just now starting off wouldn't run, that time qualified me for high school nationals and my coach told me "you know you might have a future in this sport", I have never had anybody to believe in anything that I do until her. So I worked hard and ended up getting look at by schools, and I ended up signing to a D2 school called UAH, my current institution. Also later in life I met a man by the name of David Cain, who is a pastor, and he tried his hardest to get me into church and help me with the things I needed. At the time he just seem annoying but as time goes by he help me understand what it is to be a man and how great God is to this world, this is when I become a born again Christian. I became content with life and no matter what happens I remember that I have a purpose in life, somebody may need me one day so I