Inspirations

Sometimes people inspire us to act a certain way. A person who has inspired me is my mother. The reason I say my mother is because she has been through a tough time in her life. She has had to deal with her incarceration which forced her to leave her children. Dealing with drugs kept her away from us a lot more. When she finally told me the story of why she did all of those things, I cried. She told me she had to leave me when I was a baby because my father didn’t want her to be around me. She had to make a choice to leave the drugs or leave me. Obviously, my mother made a choice to leave because she was so serious with the drugs that she couldn’t leave it alone. I have heard people say a lot of negative things about her, and I sit sometimes and wonder what else could go wrong?

 In spite of all this, my mom is inspiring me to make positive behavior choices. She has shown me what she expects from me and does not want me to go down the road that she went down. She has shown me that is not where I want to be. I was the type to get in all sorts of trouble even when I knew that I was doing the wrong thing. But I am now learning to make positive choices like finally accomplish the good goals that my mother wants for me. 

Even though my father didn’t want her to be around me, she still made a way she could help me make good decisions. That’s why I chose my mother as my true inspiration.