Narrative Essay on My Parent's Divorce

📌Category: Experience, Family, Life, Myself
📌Words: 467
📌Pages: 2
📌Published: 23 January 2022

It was September 27, 2021, and I remember working on homework and listening to music when my parents had called me into their room. My father said the five words that lived in my head for months "I'm separating from your mother." I had gone back to my room when I felt my entire world crumble beneath my feet. The months after became a draining routine.  I'd wake up, log into my classes, do homework, and lay awake at night listening to my mother's cries flooding the hallway from her room. It wasn't my father leaving that had an emotional impact on me, but the effect it had on my mother. 

I'd see her come home from work with swollen eyes and a raspy throat with nothing but pain on her face. I was her shoulder to cry on as she told me it was pointless to live anymore. She'd tell me she felt as though she was worthless. I had to be her shoulder to cry on when I had no one to be mine. It was the lowest my mental health had ever been.  I had no one in my corner supporting me or motivating me to keep on going. I pushed myself to wake up every morning. I had to drive myself to take care of myself. I was mentally and physically exhausted, but that motivated me towards a new goal. To one day give back to her; this led to my realization.

For the first time in my life, the realization of our financial situation had hit me. My father was our main source of income. He would pick up many overtime shifts to pay off my sister's community college tuition. Now that he's gone, it's just my mom's income as an agricultural worker, supporting a family of 6. I always knew college would be expensive, but knowing that my parents had struggled to pay off my sister's tuition has brought a new light to my eyes since it's now just my mother. I've seen my mom stress over not being able to pay bills just five months after the divorce. I want to give back to her for everything she's sacrificed for me. She'd always tell me that her dream is to visit the statue "Christ the Redeemer" in Brazil and to visit Jerusalem. She had hoped that my siblings would take her but they haven't. Her dream is to see the world, and my dream is to make it happen.

My parent's divorce led to my realization that money is an obstacle separating me from my dreams. I've always been told, "When you grow up, you can be anything you want to be," but it doesn't apply to financial situations. I always had exceptional grades throughout my academic history, but my change in perspective has given my academic diligence a new meaning. To show my mother that she does have a reason to keep going, and to show her the light at the end.

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