My Ugliest Memory

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My Ugliest Memory- Lauren Moss “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” A quote from Kevin Arnolds once said. And that one quote, is the main reason for my life to not be so swell. I was the youngest, the baby of the family; and yet lived as the only child. My sibblings would visit though, come and leave. But the only thing that was left of my sibblings when 'visiting hours' were over? was There legacy. I grew up in a family where one has to do better than the other. You're suppose to do what the previous did and then some. The origionality of the person being sucked out as you tried to make Mom happy, dad happy, sister happy, grandma happy, brother happy, and anyone else who wanted to be a major factor in your life. It was so stressful trying to be someone I'm not. Trying to accomplish goals on someone elses bucket list that was not even thought of as a possibility to go on mine. And that's where it all started to go wrong. My personality is strongly rooted within me. You either are happy with my decisions or you're scolding and lecturing me for hours on what i could have done, what you would have done, and what I'm never going to do. I promised myself when i was little that i wasnt going to stress myself like my sibbling before me did. I'm not going to go crazy when i get out the house for the lack of air, and i wasnt going to let someone suffocate me to do something that was not even worth it. I strived to be my own person and still that's who i am today. But the main problem with my decision? It's just as stressfull, if not more. Along with being my own person came with a consequince. The consequince of being ignored, being shamed, being unaccepted, and being the disgrace. No words were said but hostility was easy accessable through the air. If you wanted to, you
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