My personal statement

Duoi day la chuyen ca nhan toi, cac ban xem va cho biet y kien nhe.
I have had misfortunes in my life and rather than dwelling on them, I have chosen to make positive outcomes of those misfortunes. My father is an alcoholic and has been since I can remember. This affected my life in more positive ways than in negative ways and it has partly made me who I am today.
My earliest memories of my childhood are of my parents arguing, both verbally and sometimes physically. Whatever the arguments were about, they would always stem from the fact that my father drinks uncontrollably. He would always be drinking a beer or other alcoholic beverages and this would cause him to be emotional and temperamental. He embarrassed my family at gatherings by being drunk. My mother eventually was tired of it and so she left one day without even saying goodbye. My older sister, little brother, and I were children barely in our teens when we were left to take care of ourselves. My father obviously couldnâ?Tt care for us. He had quit his job and he spent his days drinking. A year later, my mother returned, and though we hated her for abandoning us, we had no choice but to go live with her. Although I was reluctant to live with my mom in fear of her leaving us again, I was relieved to move away from my father. After the divorce, my father was evicted from our house so we could move in. Since then, he has been in and out of health care centers, trying to quit his habit, but he could not do it no matter how much we helped him. He still lives today in the care of doctors because he is in such bad health.
As a child, I did not know what to think of my situation. I chose to try to ignore the dysfunction in my home when I could. I would cry, as any other child would, but the next day I would pretend like nothing happened. Once my mother left, I had *****ddenly grow up and take care of myself. I couldnâ?Tt be a ten-year old anymore. I was a child who also thought like an adult. I did not understand why this was all happening, but I took my situation and made the best of it. My siblings and I were able to take care of each other as if our situation was normal. We had an older sister and older brother, but they were living somewhere else, trying to make money to help support us.
As I grew older and as things became calmer, I had more time to think. I came to realize that I did not want my dysfunctional childhood to hinder me from being as successful as I could be. I was aware that I was different because I had many aspirations and dreams. I did not want to be like those people who blamed their failures on misfortunes. I had to be strong. I was pushed by my misfortune to strive in school and to achieve as much as I could. I have always wanted to be successful to show my mother that I would not let my fatherâ?Ts poor habits affect my life negatively. I have done very well in school and as a teenager, I have made good choices. Of course, there have been many times where I have made poor choices. For example, when I was pressured to drink, I took the wrong path for a while. But I then realized that this path would hinder my success and I did not want to turn out like my father, so I started making better choices. I am aware now that the choices I make in my social life affect my school life and I am more cautious as to what I do.
I never really understood why I had the desire to make my life as successful as possible and to show people I was different. I just knew that I wanted to do it. Now that I reflect on my childhood, I am very proud of myself for surviving my situation and becoming what I am. My fatherâ?Ts alcoholism was a big part of my childhood and therefore it is a big part of who I am and what I believe in.



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