Personal Experience in Sociobiography
My name is TerriWeedman; I was born Sept. 4th, 1991. Let me start by saying a lot has influenced who I am today people as well as events that have flipped my life upside down and molded me into a better, stronger person then who I was a few years ago. I am going to tell you about a few people who I extremely admire, and a couple that have failed me. My mother Jeanne has always raised me on a tight leash and taught me to have morals, ethics, self-respect, and class about myself.
She raised me and my older brother by herself for a long time, and we never really got to have the “Wonderful” mother/daughter relationship every little girl wants with her mother, but because of our relationship growing up it has made us so much closer now that I am an adult and have my own child. My mother is a big reason why I am the person I am today, I was always told I’m just like her and I wouldn’t have chosen to have it any other way.
He taught me that any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy. Him coming into my life was the best thing that ever happened to me and has made me value family so much more than most people do because I know how it feels to have a broken family, to have the lack of love from one parent, he fills the void in my heart that I explained earlier in this paper. When I was nineteen years old I got pregnant with my first child and unfortunately lost it at nine weeks. Losing a child is the worst experience ever and losing my child showed me life is too short to take things for granted, and that the lifestyle I was living wasn’t worth losing my life over.
Before I lost my unborn, I and the father were held at gunpoint while we were lying in bed because of something he had done to someone else and I was caught in the middle. I ended up getting arrested a week after I lost the baby because of the father of my child. After being arrested and sitting in jail for a week in June 2011 on charges that could have cost me 10 years of my life I decided I was ready to settle down, go back to college, change my entire life, and make a better living for myself. I was done going back and forth, being careless like I was invincible and nothing could happen to me. Going to jail flipped my life upside down, and I was ready to change. Last but not least, I found out I was pregnant again on October 18th, 2011.
My life completely stopped while sitting in the clinic listening to the results. I was finally over losing my first child, and was ready to start my life over. I was young and ready to get in school and be a young adult. I was forced to stop, think, and grow up way faster then I planned on doing at that time. I had to change all my plans. I had my daughter Amari Raelynn Tussey on June 15th, 2012. Only a year after losing my first one my heart and soul came into the world, my miracle baby.
Amari has made me a better person, every day she motivates me to finish college here at Brown Mackie and make a better living for me and her. She is my reason for everything I do in life because I know now that life isn’t about me anymore. So to wrap it up with a bow, All of these events and people have molded me into who and what I am today because without meeting these people or having them in my life, or without going through the hard times that I did I wouldn’t have the morals and values that I have today, and I sure wouldn’t be who I am today. I wouldn’t change anything about my life ever, because my life is who I am.
