As a young child one may remember climbing trees without a care in the world, dreaming of what they wanted to be when they grew up. I did not want to be a princess in a fairy tale, or to have prince charming come give me that sweet kiss. I wanted to be a police officer, …show more content…
They were no longer the good guys. They were the evil ones, the ones people avoided because if they were looked at cross ways, they would arrest the person. This is what society was teaching even 20 years ago. I always stayed out of what most consider real trouble, but I was definitely a pain. At that point my goals were to finish school and move away to Canada where there weren’t as many bad people. As adults we reflect and realize how silly thoughts like that are. I really did not have many other goals than to run away from everyone I had ever known. As I continued on in my teenage years, I found myself making bad decisions which resulted in a “baby with a baby”. Having a child at such a young age forces a teen to change and mature. So I married my daughter's father, which was the “right thing” to do. My goals then changed from running away, to raising my child, getting my high school diploma, and becoming a good wife and mother. Shortly thereafter, the marriage ended in divorce. Though this independent woman still desired a career in criminal justice, the goal of being a good mother took