My Personal Heroes

My personal heroes are a big part of my life and how I develop into the person I am and to still be. I have chosen to describe why my parents are the biggest heroes of my life. There are three main reasons of why they are so important to me. My parents have been and still are the biggest positive influence in my life. Also, they have done nearly everything that good parents would do and have helped me with the struggles in my religion along with a couple of other problems. I remember how they helped me get through the temptations of drugs and alcohol and because I am only seventeen they are still currently helping me get through this tough stretch of my life.

Positive influence is something every teenager or even person needs to have in their life. My parents were the people that have that positive influence on me. For example, there was a time in my life where I was thinking of dropping out of high school. This was my freshman year and a really hard year for me. My parents helped me get through this situation by not allowing me to drop out. I remember my dad telling me that if I dropped out he wouldn't let me go to driving school. As a fifteen year old at the time, I yearned to get my license at sixteen and this had a big part of what kept me in school. Another example is the friends that I had. My friends were a bad influence on me. They would skip and invite me to go with them. When we would skip school, they smoked and usually had some alcohol. I didn’t smoke but I drank a little not to stand out as a different person. My parents eventually found out and quickly put an end to it. The way I look at this is that if my parents did not care about what I did in my life, I would be in some deep trouble right now.

Good parents. What this means to me is that they show you how to live life as an adult and provide you with the daily necessities. My dad has shown me the working part of life very well. He would take me to construction on Saturday’s. His line of work is construction and let me tell you that it’s not the best way of making a living. So he would take me to work with him and as a result I learned the hard way of working for a living. Both of my parents have always provided our big family of eleven with all the necessities that we need. I recall wanting my own car. My dad had previously given my older brother and sister a car, so when it was my turn, he came through again. I say this because money has been and still is a problem in my family but my parents provide somehow. In my opinion, this is the mark of really good parents.

Religion is an extremely important part of my family's culture and tradition. So when I was having a hard time going to church and finding God, my parents were there to help me out. My mom got me involved with some church programs. I was in a Teen Class program that met once a week. I learned a lot in that class. Now that I am too old for that program I joined a Cell Group. This is a group of teenage guys who occasionally meet and discuss the Bible and life. My dad helped me get involved in this. I have to say that I needed all the help I could get with my struggles and my parents provided that help.

As I look back, I realize that heroes are people that truly have a marvelous impact on an individual’s life. In some cases, they are role models. I used to think of a hero only as a figure that you want to be when you grow up. Now I know that it is both. I am glad I can say that my parents have a big impact on my life. They are truly my heroes!