Light Bulb Moment

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Sabrina Morrell SYG 2000/Summer ‘12 Essay #1 1008 words (at least 1500 words) My Light bulb Moment Sitting at a computer one early Sunday morning, thinking about my younger years; wondering how things could have been different if only there was someone who could have been there and protected us from the horrors that were taking place. Since I was a child, there was nothing that I could have done then to defend myself or my siblings from the beast, but now as an adult there was something I could do. For hours and hours all morning I was researching and reading countless amounts of topics about volunteering, trying to find that one over your head “light bulb” moment that would tell me this is the one; this is how I can help to fight the terrible afflictions that children have to wrestle with growing up. I typed, ways to volunteer in Florida, in the computer. I scrolled down the list of websites to look for something that explained in detail about volunteer services. I was about to give up before something caught my eye; I see the words Florida Guardian Ad Litem Volunteer for abused and neglected children. Could it be? Could this be what I needed to do to help protect children from harm? In fact, after reading all the information on the website about what a volunteer for the Guardian Ad Litem does, I realize this was my light bulb moment. Since a young age, up until I became an adult there was abuse and neglect taking place in my own back yard. Sometimes the abuse would be toward my mother, which I would watch in amazement as how a woman could allow a monster of a man to treat her so horribly each and every day. Abuse was almost an everyday occurrence in home. Sitting in the dining room doing your homework at four o’clock impatiently waiting for the beast to arrive through the door, all the while wondering what it was going to be that day that
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