It hadn’t quite settled in yet, but I knew that this was going to be the most difficult thing I had to face in my entire life. We were the perfect family – always laughing and smiling, wonderful dinners always cooked to perfection, the mere comfort of knowing that everything would be taken care of – and the fact that my parents were getting divorced just didn’t seem to make much sense in my wonderful life. There would be no more laughter throughout the household, but rather yelling and fighting that would leave an impact on me for a long time to come.
As I started my years of high school, it was very difficult for me to focus on my schoolwork. Just knowing that I would have to come home to a situation in which I would possibly have to choose sides in another one of my parents’ fights was enough to ruin my entire day. While it did take quite some time to adjust, I realized that I would just have to accept the fact that this is how life would be for a while.
All of a sudden I had to fend for myself
As strange as it may sound, my parents’ divorce has definitely had some sort of positive impact on my life. While I am now a very responsible person and one who feels that he can take on anything that is put in front of him, the little lessons that I have learned along the way are ones that I will live by for the rest of my life. The values that I have been taught and experienced first-hand through this divorce have and will continue to make me a better person throughout every day in which I live.
One of the most important values that I have learned is that it truly doesn’t matter what kind of car a person drives, how big their house is, how much money they have, or even how many friends they have because the true value of a person is all about what is inside of them. One rule I now follow is to treat all people that I meet kindly because I do not know what is going on in their life or what is unique to their situation. I follow this rule because of my very own experiences in which nobody knew what was
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