Not So Clueless

As Alicia Silverstone portrays so well in this 90's classic the spoiled only child routine, gets whatever she wants. This is quite wrong in my case however. When I was very young my parents got a divorce and I was split between them to spend most of my time with my mother. I am also an only child so I was given a lot of attention, but that was about it. I never and still haven't to this day gotten everything that I wanted. I was taught that I had to work hard and have a reason to deserve those items that I wanted that were unnecessary. Another thing to add into my story, was that when my mom and I went off to go start our lives alone, we moved in with her three brothers and one of their friends. Most of my life I was surrounded by men but none of them being my dad but yet this taught me a lot of lessons. The lessons I believed I learned from them were that you trust only who you want to trust and never live life for anyone else. This may come off badly for some people but I am quite glad that my parents got divorced when they did because I don't think that I would be the person I am today and I also wouldn't have learned the lessons I did from having a tough childhood.