NHS Essay
...ncer. Throughout the next year and a half, I learned much more about life than the average teenager would ever learn during their high school years. Compared to what I was dealing with, the everyday drama of teenage life seemed so minute. Then, at the beginning of my sophomore year, my father lost his job. My brother was having mental problems during the first few weeks of school and ended up in the psychiatric ward of the local hospital. By the end of November, I discovered that my mom had less than a month to live, and she died a week and a half later with my father, my brother, and me by her side. It is hard to describe my life or myself without including these events. These events have helped to shape who I am today and have become part of me. I have always done well in school because I wanted to make my parents and myself proud. I have always been very shy and quiet. I don’t feel comfortable talking in front of groups of peopl...