I had the story, bit
by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases each time
it was a different story. Depending on who it was whether it was my
grandparents, my parents my sisters or my aunts and uncles it’s always
different, always. I was too young to remember, I remember little pieces but nothing
more. Sometimes I think that nobody really knew what went on not even my
parents and they were the main characters in the story. But somehow my four
year old self wound up out of the hands of my parents and into the hands of
about four different foster parents. But
there’s a happy. That sentence probably made no sense but it will later, just
have to wait. Of course from the parents point of view it wasn’t as bad as
everyone made it out to be, and from my grandparents point of view it was the
alcohols fault and from my sisters point of view it was all my mom’s fault and
from my Aunts point of view it doesn’t really matter what happened because in
the end I ended up having a great life. I always used to search for the truth,
the people who know won’t tell and the people who don’t know think they do. Confusion
and mess pretty much sums up the whole situation. But here’s how it looked
threw my eyes, my parents, weren’t capable of putting me before other things in
their life and I got taken away. My dad. That’s a whole other story, that
sometimes I still get lost in, everyone has those people in their life that
they put up on a higher pedestal than they should be on, for me my dad was that
person, and he was that person for my sisters as well, wanting and needing him
to be someone he wasn’t, and that’s how they formed there warped opinion it wasn’t
his fault. Luckily my grandparents rescued
me. And that’s exactly how it happened. I lived with them from four till I was
thirteen and both of them had passed. When I was with them I got to do things I
probably never would have gotten to do, and that’s where my aunts point of view
comes in, I was spoiled, got everything I wanted and got to do things they
never did, jealousy is and was a key role in helping them form there opinion
to. That’s the happy, not the ending just the happy, the ending isn’t here yet,
now I live with my mom, the past still slithers its way back in I try to let it
in to find out answers but my mom pushes it back down the hole it came out of. It’s
not really dinner conversation. Are
there any questions?
Such a layered history here, and I like how you acknowledge that history looks different from every point of view. I especially like the line: "I always used to search for the truth, the people who know won’t tell and the people who don’t know think they do." This line is also absolutely awesome: "the past still slithers its way back in and I try to let it in to find out answers but my mom pushes it back down the hole it came out of. It’s not really dinner conversation." Powerful and poetic.
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