Considering The Present

Getting my scratch apartment 3. Having my two beautiful daughters 4. comely the Head Cake Decorator on my Job 5. go to school Each of these experiences has had an amazing concussion on my bread and butter in one way or a nonher. Graduating from high school was a big deal for me as well as my family. I was the starting signal of my grandmothers grandkids to graduate from high school. After graduating from high school I worked hard and paid to rent my for the prime(prenominal) time apartment.Having my own infinite and becoming independent was something I reserve eternally indigenceed because I had to overlap fore rattlingthing growing up. I have two beautiful daughters whom have wobbled my feeling for the best. Before having the girls I was a party animal. They have slowed me down and made me realize what Is Important in life. I have always liked to design things growing up. Becoming a head cake decorator has allowed me to show my creativity and provide for my family, Last, just now not least returning cover to school to further my education has been a goal that I have always anted to accomplish.Obtaining my degree from Gifford will help me to provide an even reform lifestyle for my daughters. When I graduated from high school, I was so proud of myself. I accomplished something that no(prenominal) of my grandmothers grandkids had forever done. Getting my own apartment taught me how to be a strong individual. I worked hard and hold my own space which some young ladies at the age of 19 couldnt do. Having my kids was the best thing that ever happened to me. It taught me how to love unconditionally and genuinely.I felt great that I had a home of my own to raise them in. Becoming head cake decorator was a goal that I accomplished that was really unexpected. I was the reliever cake decorator. When the head decorator took a higher paying Job she nominated me to take her space which was a great accomplishment. Returning back to school has been one of my biggest dreams and I am overwhelmed with happiness on how well I am doing after being out of school for over ten years. In my first class I finished with a B I great for and proud to be a student at Gifford university.Considering The PresentIn childhood and throughout our hold outs we live, we love, and we learn. These learning experiences bathroom be either positive or negative and they can quickly be forgotten or can stay with us forever. Throughout my lifetime I have gone through my fair packet of both positive and negative experiences. It is through these experiences that I have become the woman I am to solar day. Two of these positive experiences that I have gone through in the course of my life that have played the largest part in the woman I am today are the birth of my first son and getting clean and sober.Both of these experiences came with a variety of mixed emotions in the beginning but in the end were very rewarding. I can still remember the day the doctors told me I was pregnant. That present(prenominal) smack of fear swallowed me whole and time seemed to stand still. It was not until a couple of months later that I realise there was no changing the situation and that I needed to make the very best of it. conclusion out I was pregnant started out as a very scary experience but ultimately was one of the most positive and rewarding experiences I have ever endured.After the fear settled a little bit I was able to really start thinking about my life and what I needed to change. Up until that day at the doctors I was living day by day doing what I needed to do for me and no one else. I had no muse, I was living with my parents and my but source of excitement came from the local bar rooms late at night. I knew things needed to change and I set out on a mission to make that change happen. Alone and horrified I was able to swallow my pride and ask my family for help and the guidance to get my life back on track before this baby entered ou r world.All through my pregnancy I knew I loved my unborn son more than I have ever loved anything in this world. I knew that my life was no longer mine quite an it was my son and Is and that I needed to be the very best parent I could be. Although I was not able to find a real job I was babysitting for other family members and earning my own money. I was able to buy almost everything that was needed for my unborn son all on my own. Two months before I was due to give birth I finally got my own apartment. I was starting to feel like my own person and I was not so scared anymore.Kaidon Douglas Bishop entered this world on July 26th, 2005. It is a day that I will never forget. That immediate feeling of unconditional love overwhelmed me. This little boy had changed my life forever and for the first time in my life I felt like I did something right and I had a reason to live the right way. I chose this experience to discuss first because I believe it has had the most profound impact o n my life and the person I am today. Finding out I was pregnant was a huge eye broadcaster and motivator.There has been no other experience in my life that has made me as happy and satisfied as this one. The second experience I have chosen to discuss is my journeying through addiction and into sobriety. This is yet another experience that has had a lasting impression on my life. At about the age of 16 I went through some very hard times and rather than deal with all the feelings and emotions that came with those difficulties I turned to drugs to bury those feelings. Things quickly escalated and in further a hardly a(prenominal) short months my life was turned only upside down.My drug addiction was the only thing in my life that mattered and I did not care about anything except my next high and where it was coming from. The ages of 16 through 21 were by far the worst years of my life. My addiction to opiates was running my life. Throughout the fiver years of my addiction I did several stints in and out of County jails, State prisons and rehabs. When I was not in one of those places I was homeless, bouncing around from drug house to drug house when I could and quiescency on the streets when I had no other option.My final rock bottom was when my own family had completely unsympathetic me out of their lives. It was at this point I knew that something had to change and I needed to get help. I had nada and nobody and it was a very lonely time for me. I began making phone calls to substance deprave programs all over New York State hoping and praying that somebody would want to help. I was finally accepted into a suboxone program for opiate addiction and once again had someone on my side. Slowly I was able to completely get off from the heroin and pain killers and regain some sense of control.I understand that this sounds like a very negative experience but I have chosen it as one of the more significant experiences in my life because the outcome was so posit ive and rewarding and to this day affects my everyday life and decisions. Once I was clean and my family saw my progress I was accepted back in to open arms and a boat load of support. I doubt highly I would have ever been able to beat this addiction and get my life back without the help of my family. This experience not only taught me t he value of family but that persistence and working hard to get something you really want does pay off.