The One Experience That Has Transformed My Life

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The One Experience That Has Transformed My Life Courtney St. Gemme Regis University The one experience that has transformed my life. With the assigned reading this week, we read a lot about life stories. Bateson essay discussed we could have many different versions of our lives. Robert Frost’s The Road less traveled states: are we one to follow the path everyone else has chosen or do we choose our own path? Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, was probably my favorite. His essay resonates how I have lead my life or as Berry says how, I have been led (Berry 133). After these weeks reading, we’ve been asked to write about one experience that has changed our life and there is one experience that changed my life forever, it’s called becoming a mother. Not to discredit my husband in any way, he is a humongous part of my life. He is the father of my children, he is my partner in crime fighting, and he is the person who keeps me level headed. Jason and I, we’ve been through a lot. We met in high school, dated for a whole two weeks and then broke up. 17 years later and a little invention called MySpace, we met back up again. We were both in the right place to come together and become partners. While I love Jason and our life, the one experience that really transformed my life, was having children. I’m an older mother. I was 33 when my I gave birth to my oldest son Grant. By the time he came around everybody around me had children. I had five nieces, my friends had kids, and my co-workers had kids; it was like a disease, did they all drink from some water fountain that I wasn’t aware of?. My own mother had given up on me, written me off. I was going to be childless. I had given up, come to terms that I was never going to have kids. More time to travel I suppose. But, then, it happened, I became pregnant! Me, the one who was old, in her 30’s, well past her prime. I remember
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