The Realization
I wouldn't say that life as a single mother is the hardest - because everyone's life is different, and I have personally met a lot of people with a much harder life than me. However, being a single mother is never something one would dream of being as a child. When I was too young to know what a family really should be like, I always dreamed of having my own home, with no one to intrude on my personal space, or ever have the capability of telling me how to live my life. I guess at such a young age, I was simply yearning for a life away from my parents, their rules, and authority as a whole. Personally, I was not interested in even having a family of my own until I made a very monumental realization: The family I was a part of was not how a family really should be. I was in the fourth grade, finally establishing female friendships - we are brutal from a young age - when "The Realization" hit me. I was partially listening to the first girls to ever treat me like a d...