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  • Essay / My Sister's Death and How We Dealt with It - 1115

    No one would ever imagine that ringing the doorbell would be the worst thing to hear. In my family, a doorbell rang that would change the course of my life forever. My family has never been stable. You could say I come from a “broken” family. My parents tried to unite two families into one, but unfortunately things didn't work out. My mother's first children did not accept my father, because he brought a lot of negativity. My mother wasn't perfect either; her previous marriage collapsed and she was clinically depressed. Just in this little description of my family, I have to say that we are very low on the strong scale, which puts us at risk for a crisis situation equal to that of a. With this in mind, one could imagine that adding a crisis to this mess would only weaken us further, because we wouldn't know how to deal with it. Unfortunately, a crisis actually entered my family when I was young, which altered my childhood. Without going into detail about the subject, my sister Jo'Anna was murdered. This sister was my mother's first child. After this crisis, my mother closed her doors. After the funeral, she still had eight more children on her plate. My mother was in shock and didn't come out of it for years. As a result, two of my siblings went to live with their father on the other side of the country, two others went to college life, and the other two moved out to fend for themselves. The only children left at home were the ones who couldn't leave, my sister and me. Over the years, my mother always mourned Jo'Anna's death and never let go of her. His anger at the situation fell on us. My father worked constantly. So that left me and my sister in the house with a mother who is unable to cope with the loss and who developed... middle of paper ... filled my heart and I didn't want to l 'admit. to anyone else let alone myself that I felt this way. If I had, many of my problems could have been solved earlier in life. Finally, we must examine all possibilities to resolve the crisis. To be honest, we haven't thought about what we can do to solve this problem. At the time, nothing could bring Jo'Anna back and that was it. But we were able to resolve the emotions caused by death. If therapy had been pursued from the beginning, my life might have been happier and would have had a mother figure in the early years. In conclusion, my sister's death seemed to shape my life as it is today. We did not handle the crisis in the right way, even though that is how life goes. A ring at the doorbell will change your life, for better or for worse, it's how you handle the crisis that determines your destiny..