The Person I Admire

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The Person I Admire

As I started growing up, I never bothered to think of the people around me: My parents, my uncles, my aunts, my brothers and even some friends of mine. All I used to think of is myself and what would be good for me. As days passed time evolved, I started coming to understand more. My knowledge was developing as well as my skills. I started doing very well in life because I know what is bad and what is good. I came to know whom to respect, whom to listen to, whom to ask for help, and whom to get advise from with in my family. I would say that I had have my freedom of right by that time. It was a very long and hard experience for me to get to know the person that I truly admire in my life. This person actually is me real father. He wasn’t very good to me like some fathers to their sons. I came a very long way to understand him and his manners to me which make me sick and disappointed most of the time. There are things that make a difference between us, and these things are mainly the foundation of my loyalty and respect towards him.
My father did not go to school. He was among his brothers and sisters that did not go to school to get educated. He was very poor since he was a kid, however he managed his way to at least make some part of his dream a reality. He was kicked out of school when he was in the third grade, and never attempted to go back. He then started helping out his parents doing work around the house and on their land. During his teenage years, he did not have freedom in school like his brothers and sisters did. Rather he spent all his time doing hard working with my grandfather. Sometimes he went fishing with some of his older uncles. He started fishing at a younger age. His father would give him a lot of work to do which made him very disappointed and regretful for being lazy at school. Eventhough he faced things like this, he kept going until he married my mom. However, he was still helping his father with work in the family because his father was...

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  • Submitted by: mariuscris90
  • Date Submitted: 12/29/2008 01:28 PM
  • Category: English
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