Family

There are many different families with many different moral understandings. What could be the right thing to do for one family could be a completely foreign concept to another family .The way I was raised was to be a genuine good- hearted person. To my family, that means to be courteous and truthful. I grew up with: both my mother and father, my older sister, and my younger sister. We were all raised to be good people. Growing up I knew that if somebody fell on the playground that it would be a nice gesture to try and help them up. When there was a new student in class, while everybody tried to figure out why they had come to the school, I would go and ask. The person you become in life has to do a lot with the way you were raised.

My older sister was raised with the most responsibility on her shoulders because she has two younger sisters who are following her footsteps. I remember my mother would always tell her to be careful what she did because as soon as we found out, my younger sister and I, we were bound to do the same. I believe that I am who I am today because of my mother. She taught me a lot of things but the most important lesson she has taught me is that I am not perfect. That I am not invincible and That I can't expect people to bail me out of my problems. Some people might grow up with their parents coddling them but I grew up knowing that I would make mistakes and because of that I would become a better person.

My dad is the one who really taught me about the value of friends. He would spend saturday afternoons with his buddies and watch sports on TV. I remember he would tell me that family always comes first but with friends you can expand your family. He raised me to be very social and understanding because as he once put it, "everybody needs friends." Also, he taught me the value of education. Since I was in grade school my dad was always telling my sisters and I that we had to try our best in school. He then continued on saying that if our best wasn't good enough, we were not trying hard enough. Now I understand that in order to make something of yourself, in today's time, you have to have some sort of education.