Let's start at the beginning, around 2008, where possibly one of the biggest things in my life happened. My parents decided to get a divorce. By now it's not that big of a deal since everyone and their cat’s parents are divorced, according to apa.org around 40%-50% of married people get divorced, but it still taught me a lesson to accept that change and adapt to it. My mother has custody over me and I still get to see my father, but I know that it will never be the same. At least there are a lot of kids like me and I have a lot of people to talk to, and a lot of people can talk to me. I know that no matter what happens to my parents that they love …show more content…
Let's fast-forward to a few years later, where another huge thing happened to me. Separately, two beautiful girls came into the world, my extremely intelligent cousins Eden and Jadzia. Jadzia was born a few years before Eden, so that made her a sassy big sister. Now, I respect and love them like sisters, because they are the sisters I never had, but when I was younger, that was a different story. I was the most jealous little brat around them, because they were younger than me. I needed all of the spotlight on me at all times. If I could have met younger me, I would have smacked her in the face for her greed. But anyway, over time I realised that I couldn’t be mean to them because they were like my sisters. And soon they would need that sisterly-like support. Today I am so proud of them for excelling in grade school after being homeschooled all their life, they have all A’s in their classes and they are more clever than I could ever be, even though Eden is seven and Jadzia is ten. I will always love my cousins and I hope they will always love