I'm An Everyday Hero

It all started my senior year of high school. I was so excited to be at the top of my class, and to be graduating that year. Everything seemed infallible, until i got a call that would change my life. My dad called me, he told me that he was arrested and needed to talk to my mom. He was arrested for doing illicit things. I never imagined my dad would ever be in trouble, let alone with the police. He was such a normal caring father, he seemed infallible. I just remember being so worried about what was happening to my dad. My dad was later released and i thought things would get better from there. I was very wrong. My dad was no longer working and my mom could not afford the mortgage payment and all the bills that came with life herself. Our home was not the most optimum home, but it was what i had lived in my whole life, it was all I knew. I did not know what to think. "Where were we going to live, what is going to happen to our family?" Thats all I could think about as we were losing our home we had been in so long. From all the stress and financial issues my parents decided to get divorced. Everything seemed to be happening at once. I felt so despondent. I felt as if things could not get worse. I felt as if I vicariously caused their divorce. My dad and my mom were together for so long, I never in my life imagined them splitting up. When my parents got their separate places I decided it was a better idea to live with my mom. I see my dad every so often, or if he calls me once in a while to see how I am doing. I try not to hold any grudges towards him, I just sometimes wish things turned out differently. Although my mom does not have a lot of money to fritter we live a normal life in a pretty nice apartment now. I decided to get a job right out of high school to help pay for my own things so I did not put any more stress on my mom financially. I started going back to school this semester and believe it or not my major is criminal justice. I want to help people change their lives for the better. In retrospect I guess you can say this experience matured me as a person. I have learned to stick with the right crowd and to focus on bettering my life for myself and the people around me. I am stronger than ever.