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My Family, My Teachers
To all the teachers in my family, and all the things you taught me - If you're very, very lucky, family are just friends you didn't get to pick yourself - they were already in place when you arrived, like the furniture and 70's shag carpeting. Unlike the carpeting, the teaching has stuck around for far longer, with far-reaching consequences that even my parents would never have guessed at.
By Meredith Harmon4 years ago in Families
You've Got it Forever Now
More than a quarter of a century after making your acquaintance, I still find myself in awe of you. I can tell you the day – June 19th, 1995 – as well as the hour. It was one o’clock in the afternoon when I arrived for the first time at the Spruces, the 19th century hotel then being used as the residence for the cast and crew of the Weathervane Theatre. Even before I was parked, I realized that the building was many decades past its heyday, in an era when wealthier Bostonians and New Yorkers could board a train north during the summer months to holiday in the cooler air of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. I immediately wondered what I had gotten myself into.
By D.P. Martin4 years ago in Families
Mom had a Dream
It all happened in 1992. I was born. second child to my parents. crazy as it sounds, I was, am the naughtiest kid. I was and still I am the toughest to handle. I am quick as a wind but I am the one who has most troubled parents, grandparents as well. Always running around, making every inch of mistakes, the tough kid at times for my parents , grandmother to look after. let me tell you how at each face we have tried to achieve our dreams.
By Harsha Upadhyaya4 years ago in Families
You Can Live Without Love
Back and forth I paced our small bathroom, biting my nails while the water ran hot. Anticipation goosed my skin; blood sped through my veins. The tub filled. It could have been Christmas morning, my excitement was breathtaking. I quickly got undressed and jumped into the bathtub. The hot water embraced me, completely. I imagined drowning. My pores opened, singing praises, tingling. Eventually, no other embrace was required to be graced and blessed. It was Love. It was Saturday night - bath night! My greatest nightly adventure. Once in the water, I heard the murmur, "I love you."
By Allan Ebert4 years ago in Families
I am a G**d*** Masterpiece
My hero was born in 2019 to the strongest women I've ever known during the hardest year of my life to date. I was a 22-year-old recent college grad about to start my first job in New York City. Mentally, I was grieving the college experience where spending time with your friends, attending a couple hours of class each weekday, and having fun on the weekends were the only items on my To-Do list. I had to come to terms that my social life and daily experiences were going to change and there was nothing I could do about it.
By Maggi McCann4 years ago in Families
Foster The Love
From the day that I was born, I never imagined that I would have a deep a love for anything in the world. I'm a bit of a downer at times but my parents have been my saving grace time and time again through the periods of my life that I thought I would not be able to make it through. From the perils of my authority issues in high school to exploring the darkness of my mind in the Army, I have never been so sure in my life that I have ever had a deeper love for anyone in my life besides my parents. Even when I fell into bad habits and a river full of blackened excuses in my teenage years, my parents helped pick up the pieces of my soul to construct it back together so that I could become the man I am today and have experienced some of the best experiences I could have ever asked for. I've been in FFA/4H and garnered massive awards, become a multi-instrumentalist, have had a fascination with paleontology and astronomy enough to garner education credits and even become a 35G through their assistance and I personally feel that I would have not been able to accomplish these feats without their assistance. From a young age, I've always had a deep seated fascination with accomplishing anything I could of importance because I didn't want to become stuck in the mud of life with nowhere to go and nothing to do but my monotonous 9-5 and the same delegated meal structure that the world had intended for a large populous of humanity. Even with my dark thoughts and subjection to a suicidal trepidation, my parents looked past my dark theology on the world and its suitors and found a bright light that could thrive. My dad, technically my step dad but he has been my dad since I was 2 years old, inspired a thriving imaginative yearning for me to follow to get out of the dark threshold of my young mind and to dedicate myself to become exactly the person I wanted to be...outside of the box that had been dedicated to many out of complacency and ill fated designations to the valley of death. My mom inspired me to love the ones that stood by me because even though I might feel as if I was destined to be the one in the rain by himself, a self designated loner, that I could count on the people closest to me to assist me to my dreams of grandeur and self love. They reminded me that even though there will be dark times and that some things in life seem to only present a wall of obscurity and hatred, there is always a way to break through the wall and to become victorious of the mission it just took time to "embrace the suck" in order to find another system that could correlate a better future for myself and my younger siblings. Being the eldest of my siblings is sometimes the most difficult feat I have ever had to accomplish because even though I sometimes feel like I'm the worst ever at this(imagining me having children is a nightmare to me), my parents remind me that I have the capability of being the best role model to them and eventually an even better parent because these kind of theologies require trial and error with a pretty large handful of sometimes absolutely screwing it up. Therefore, I could not be the person that I am today without them and their lessons. I was an idiot teenager that thought that I knew everything but now that I've grown older, and hopefully smarter, I've taken note to their charismatic lessons and realized that they carry much more weight in my life than I could ever properly explain. There's no way I could ever explain how truly thankful I am to have them in my life because they saved me. They saved me from my bad habits, they saved me from being the worst version of myself, and most of all...they saved me from ending myself and giving in to the demons that have encompassed the deepest chasms of my soul. I will never accept defeat and I will never quit and I have my parents to assist me to this goal of living my life to the fullest so that I can escape my deepest fears and truly succeed. Thank you for reading my story I hope that you too have someone to save you like I have had in my life.
By Jess Allen Gribnitz4 years ago in Families
My story
My Story, There will be moments in your life that will change your life forever. We all process grief and change differently. We can loss ourselves or we can find a way to empower and comfort someone who needs to hear they are not alone. I chose the latter.
By Candy Lendt4 years ago in Families
