Life and Death

With the death of Christopher Reeves, I just wanted to share some personal thoughts. I want to show you some of the hardships I have been through.

My grandmother died when I was five years old. I remember some of the things my father told my mother. I never got to see my grandmother before she died. It was one of the hardest things in my life. I was not actually sure what was going on, but I knew that I loved my grandmother and nothing was going to bring her back.

This past January, my mother's boyfriend, who I was very close to, died. He, besides my mother, actually thought and knew that I could do whatever I wanted to. He had faith in me. When I went to Job Corps in 2003, I came home a week after. I remember the first day that I saw him, he had told me to get into his truck. I did and we went to the local grocery store. We went back into the meat section and he told me to get pick out a steak that I wanted. We ended up finding one and we bought it. We took it to his apartment and ended cooking it. It was things like that that made me actually look up to him. He wanted me to be everything that I could be. Because I had that constant in my life, I obtained my high school diploma and ended up with a job that I enjoy a lot. I have learned that things in life don't come so easy

In conclusion, my life may not have been the best. I do know now that if you really want something you have to work for it. Thanks to all the constants in my life and some of the not so constants.