Biography - Essay 2

True story by:                                                                               Jocelyn Quiles

During September of this year I was going through some things at my house at that time that I didn’t really want to deal with, so I had made a decision to leave my home and go stay at my friends house until I had gotten my mind straight. During that time when I had left I wasn’t really thinking about anyone else but myself. I was very angry at my parents and I thought running away would be able to fix what I felt was wrong, but it didn’t. The reason why I had left my house was because I was very stressed out. My oldest brother who I look up to left to the Navy and I wasn’t really able to talk to him since he’s so far away. Also me and my parents weren’t getting along at all.
The night that I left my parents didn’t know. I remember when I first walked out the door the first thing that came to my head was my mom. She is very ill and I thought of myself as very selfish. I knew she needed me, but I didn’t want to go back. In a way I thought if I left, maybe my mom and dad would feel sad and feel like they did something wrong. I thought maybe this will show them, but I was wrong. They were livid at me. A few days later I had decided to go home because my mom had been calling me this whole time telling me to just come home and that if I did   she wouldn’t yell at me and that she just wanted to talk. I could tell she was worried and I knew what I had to do.
When I came back not only were the problems that I had ran away from were still there but I had even more problems to deal with because I had left. I knew what I had to do, I had to tell my parents the reason why I left and how I had been feeling. After a long talk we resolved it but of course there was a twist. I had gotten grounded and also lost a lot of trust with my parents.
Overall what I learned from this experience is rather than running away from my problems I needed to learn how to deal with...