Changing

A life lesson can change your attitude and feelings toward something and/or someone very quickly. I believe life lessons could be the best or worst lessons to change someone. I got a really hard life lesson in 2001, my dad had two heart attacks, and that really affected me. He survived, but it was very hard to see my dad in the hospital since I was always used to seeing him working and trying his best to make us happy. I never really realized how much my dad was doing for us, he worked very hard every day to give us everything we wanted. I didn’t spend much time with him because when I got out of school he was still working and by the time he was done I was already in bed.

I would have never thought he was going to get heart attacks, it was very scary when it happened. After he got out of the hospital I completely changed. I started talking to him more, I would take care of him, he became my best friend. Years passed and once again I changed, now that I was in middle school I didn’t spend much time at home, I didn’t spend as much time with my parents as I used to.

In 2010, everything came crumbling down once again, my dad had another heart attack. This time I felt really guilty, every time I would misbehave and my dad would get mad at me my mom would tell me “If he gets another attack its going to be your fault because you make him yell and stress.” I knew my mom would just say that because she was tired of my dad and I fighting, but I still felt really guilty because I stopped helping him and being there for him. After the third heart attack I knew I had to change again and just always be there for my dad, helping him with everything and taking care of him. Like I said life lessons could be the best or worst, for me it was a little of both, worst because I had to see my dad suffer but the best because it made me realize that I had to change and be there for my dad.