One time in my life I was going through a situation that I didn't know how to handle. I needed someone to be there for me more than ever. I felt as if I was in the middle of a tornado all alone. I felt like the luckiest person in the world when I did have someone there for me. I will always remember how my boyfriend Stan was by my side through everything.
Everybody has a hard time in his or her life. I always thought my hard time was when I fell off my bike and scraped up my elbows and knees. Boy, was I wrong. I had it good all my life whether I realized it or not. It just took one horrible situation to make me realize that falling off my bike was nothing. Just recently my parents told me that were getting separated. My dad was giving my mom some space, so he was not around much. I had a really difficult time dealing with this because my family was always so close. We would go on family vacations every year. I remember we would always have a night picked out to go through the camping book and select our destination for the next summer. All that was running through my mind was how everything would be different now. When my brother graduated, he picked out a three-week trip for all of us to go on. It was one of the best family vacations we ever had. We went all over the East coast. We stopped in Las Vegas, and my brother would take me to the pool so that my parents could go out and have their own fun in the casinos. I remember they would have so much fun together walking around and going to different shows. All I could think is how I would never have the chance to pick out a family trip for us to go one when I graduated. I wanted to be able to pick out something that everyone would enjoy and see everyone happy together. Now I know that this will never be possible.
My family has never had any major problems, so it was unusual to hear that my parents were getting separated. The only sibling I have is my older brother Scott, who no longer lives with us since he is in the Air Force and currently stationed in Qatar.