Post Two

“Whatever Will Be Will Be”

That’s my life motto, is, was, and probably always will be. If I were to tell you my life story, the recurring theme could easily be summed up by this quote. I believe in fate, I believe in predestination, I believe in the purpose of life. I’ve never been the luckiest girl in the world and I’m probably not the unluckiest one either but I sure have had my fair share of bad luck with pretty good outcomes.

My life had been pretty normal and decent until I turned 8. I lived in a three family home in Brooklyn and my parents owned a Chinese takeout restaurant down the block, life was pretty simple and normal for an 8 year old. A series of bad financial decisions forced my parents to sell the restaurant, move to Pennsylvania, and buy a new restaurant there. Therefore, my parents moved out of the house leaving me in the care of my grandmother. Year after year, my parents tried to sell the restaurant in Pennsylvania because they wanted to be closer to me but of course, that didn’t work out either. Today, I have realized that not having my parents around at such a young age forced me to learn how to take care of myself without any parental guidance. That’s part of the reason why I am so independent and self-sufficient today. I didn’t have parents to come home to when I was picked on at school, I didn’t have parents to punish me when I got bad grades, I didn’t have parents to guide me and nurture me when I was lost. I had no other choice but to suck it up and learn how to deal with it by myself because I knew that at the end of the day, my parents were out there making a living so that they could support me.

This just goes to show that no matter how hard my parents tried to come back to me, they were destined to go to Pennsylvania and stay there because that was the only way I would have been able to learn to become an independent person. I’m not saying that I don’t need my parents, but a large part of who I am today is due to the mistakes that I’ve made and the lessons that I’ve learned from them.

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