“Raising children is an incredibly difficult and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes made by the previous one. » -Bill Cosby. My mother once told me that when I grow up, I will be like her. I remember that until today, I saw children saying: “I want to be like my parents”. As I think about it, I ask myself: Would I want to be like my mother? Or my ex-father? Then I said to myself, without a doubt, NO. As a child, I was able to see my parents' behavior, their good and bad characteristics, the way they treated my siblings and me, and the suffering of what my mother endured when my father left. As they say, "history repeats itself", but honestly, I wouldn't want to repeat the same mistakes, actions and consequences. Not just for me but for my future generation to come. So how exactly can I evolve from them? Take the good and leave out the bad? Take a different path than the one they took? Well, these questions are the right answers. Growing up far from our parents is and should mean taking away the good from them, leaving behind the bad that they have done and taking a different path to a better future. As a reader, you may be wondering why wouldn't I be like my parents? Well before you continue reading, I am about to share with you a little of what my childhood was like. My childhood was not normal. What I went through was probably a traumatic experience, but it was a reality for me. When I was young, I saw my mother suffer a lot. My mother became pregnant at the age of seventeen, was unable to finish high school or go to college, and was forced to marry my father. When she was married to my father, my father abused her violently, especially when she...... middle of paper ...... what I do and don't struggle for food, etc., Of course, there are trials, obstacles, and difficult situations that may be similar to those my parents experienced. To be completely honest, I failed. I've probably made mistakes like them, but that's the process of evolution. It's okay to make mistakes like them and our own mistakes, but the goal is to not repeat the same mistakes over and over again, but to learn from them so that when they try to make another time, there will be a different result, a different consequence. , a different future. Leaving yourself with this quote, think about your future. Think about it: if you were to evolve from your parents and not be like them, would you have a better future? “If you don’t see what’s beyond your parents, you’re not evolving, you’re just looking at what you will be in the future.” -ML