Essay #7 (Process Essay)

               My whole life I had been trying to find the right path to take. Should I go this way, or should I go that way? My life was full of so many twists and turns; it was confusing and I got lost often. I didn’t feel comfortable with the way I was driving through life. Realization finally struck me and I quickly gained control of my life and made a change. Some of those changes were good, some were bad. Life became bumpy along the way and I was left wondering if I made the right decisions. It’s been said that things get worse before they get better. Well, after getting through the rough patch, those situations led me to who I am today – a new mother, college student, and a wife.

                Senior year is the year of self-actualization. It’s a time to realize who your true friends are and where you are going in life. It is also a time to have fun with your friends while you can. However, during my senior year, I was pregnant. Unlike most pregnant girls in high school, I took control of my life and figured out where I was going, how to get there, and what to do next. All I did was look forward into the future. I wanted to do what would be best for me and my unborn child. I saved up money from my job, I graduated with all A’s and, I was (and still am) with the dad. I proved to everyone that I wasn’t a stereotypical pregnant teenage girl.

                College; the one thing people tried to get me to wait on. After graduating and having a baby, people didn’t think I could handle being a full time mother and a full time student. I started to question it myself, but I wasn’t going to let anything slow my life down. I was going to go in, all or nothing. I made it easier on myself, and for Sirus, by taking online classes. College was going to get me to where I want to be in life. I needed to prove to myself that I could handle the work with a newborn baby.

                Finally, on October 11, 2012, I married my best friend, a United States Marine. Although he had plans to go in before I got pregnant, he stuck with it for the baby. We wanted to make sure that the future would be bright for our little bundle of joy. On top of that, we will be traveling, cared for, and doing a part for our country. I finally had the feeling that I took the right path in my life. I joined my husband and son with sharing the name Ricker.

                After graduating, having a baby, getting into college, and becoming a wife, I realized that it doesn’t matter how I got to where I am. All that matters is who and what is there. I am a mother to the most incredible baby boy, married to the most amazing man and father of my son, and a full time college student. Everyone’s life can look like a road. Some are full of twists and turns, some are full ups and downs, and others are like a road in the desert; straight and boring. Life is meant to be anything but ordinary. The only way to reach that is to take the road less traveled on. I took a path not knowing where I would end up, and I don’t regret it for the world! In the words of Rascal Flatts, ‘Bless the Broken Road’.