“Anything is possible” has never fully set my mind at ease. While many have four or five
year plans in mind, I have high expectations and hope but no intended path of travel.
Determination and self-motivation are traits that I have attained and used when I had no
footsteps to follow, began to doubt myself, and struggled to make up my mind.
Growing up I had a wonderful childhood for which I am thankful of. At one point I even
believed that I had a perfect life with the worlds most loving and perfect parents.
Unfortunately in this world there is no such thing as perfect. The person I looked up to the
most and could not stay away from for even the smallest amount of time showed me that
there is no such thing as perfect but there is self-improvement.
The day I found out my father had been unfaithful to my mother and my family, since
before I was born, completely left me in the dark. I felt as if my whole life had just been a
made up fantasy. How could the one person that I idolized, and went to when I needed
words of encouragement lie for so long? For a while I found it hard to believe in any of his
words or promises. I would see him every day and talk to him but the way I looked at him
wasn’t the same anymore, I didn’t see the man I used to see. He was drifting out of my life
