The accident that changed my life
I had always lived a peaceful life with my family. This was before things changed and I had to start looking at life from a new perspective. My parents started having frequent fights over reasons, which I could not fully understand. I later learned that the cause of the scuffle between my parents was that my father had an external affair. This hurt my mother so much and she eventually decided to take me away with her. Life alone with mother was never easy and on most occasions, we faced problems and difficulties in meeting basic maintenance. However, my mother was resilient and never willing to give up. She did all she could to make ends meet hoping that what she did would satisfy my needs. However, when I broke an ankle out of mischief, life changed for good and I begun seeing things differently. When my mother could not afford taking me to hospital, I realized how effortlessly she struggled to meet our needs in the house.
My mother spending much of her time fending for the house, leaving me on my own on most occasions with so much time for getting mischievous. I had so much free time that I did not know what to do on most occasions. Soon I was part of a gang of kids in the neighborhood who got involved in so many mischievous activities. We did all sorts of things just to make the lives of our neighbors difficult. We never got ourselves involved in serious crimes like drugs or theft as was common with most teenagers our age, but there was just some fun in making the lives of people miserable. One thing, which changed my life completely, was on a fateful evening when I blocked the way and prevented a boy from my neighborhood from passing. I had no idea that his brother was coming from behind, and that his passing was a trap to get to us for our usual stubbornness and bullying of younger kids.
On the first sound the young boy produced as I pinched his nose, the brother appeared from a corner flinging a log in his hands. My efforts for running away did not help me much as he threw it my way and hit my ankle. That was the last time I walked straight because the injury I sustained could not be treated in time and my leg got a bad infection leading to the amputation of my leg. This experienced changed my life completely, because of being the strong bully that I was, I became a cripple incapable of walking without assistance for over a year. During that time, I was confined between hospital and home without any chance of moving around as I used to in the past. Now, this change gave me a reason for settling down and thinking about my life from a deeper perspective.
Other than the challenge, my mother already had trying to provide for me, I was now a cripple and required her attention on most occasions. I had just made things worse for us because she had to avoid going out for long. That meant that the problems we had just multiplied and her efforts for reaching my father never bore any fruit. Life became hard by the day and I lost hope of ever being happy. However, despite my stubbornness, my mother never abandoned me in the difficulty, she stayed strong and focused in making life bearable taking me to hospital and providing for me relentlessly. As I look behind, this scenario makes me stronger than ever regarding any challenges that I face. I know that there is more than just physical strength, people need internal strength, because that is what kept my mother strong.
Even though father never came back to us, it is not a worry in our lives anymore. I can now look at my mother and understand her efforts in making me the person I am today. My strength and positive attitude in life all come through her encouragement. I will never be able to walk and bully people around but I will always remain adamant and determined to make it in life regardless of the challenges, which I may face. This situation taught me to love my mother more than ever before because I know that she loves me. I have learnt how hard it is raising a child alone because of the need for balancing situations. What makes it even hard is that children never understand and they misuse the freedom their parents’ absence present. The challenge is a tough one because as the mother intends to provide for the family, she fails on some occasions as the mother and that can always take a toll on the wellbeing of the family. Currently I am more determined to lead a responsible life than anything else does. That way, I will be able to help my mother in taking care of our house.
