rebecca04′s Blog

I can remember the day that my younger sister came to me and told me that i had abandoned her. At first I thought to myself ¨how did I abandon you¨. Then as I broke down in tears i realized that she was right i had abandoned her. When i had run away i had left three of my younger sisters not realizing that they all needed me in some way. I had run away to get out of a bad situation and not realizing it at that time i had left all of them in the situation that i was running from. I know that now the sister that came to me and told that i abandoned her has now forgiven me. She has gotten herself out of the situation that i had left her in. But i have a feeling that the two that are still down there still think that i have abandoned them, and it makes me sad every time i think about it. I just hope that one day they will both forgive me and we can all move on with our lives.

VICTIMS

My four sisters and I had been living with my grandparents for about four years off and on. Then my grandfather had done something that caused us all to go into foster care. there was a moment in time that I cannot forget. That cold feeling that I had.

There was a question that kept repeating itself in my head. ” Why would he do something like that . Why would he hurt our family?” I can only imagine what my sisters had gone through. They were the victims not me.

When I heard that my grandfather had molested two of my sisters my whole world was turned upside down. There were so many questions racing through my head. I thought of how it would have been if i were one of his victims.

I thought of all the things we had done together, what I shared with him. Then my head filled hatred. At this point I didn’t care what was going to happen to him. I just wanted him to pay for what he had done. I wanted the fact that he lost his family because of what he had done to keep playing over in his head.

He served six years in prison, but I don’t think that it was nearly enough time. he is on probation and he is not allowed to have any kind of contact with us until we turn eighteen years old.

It took me a really long time to except what he had done. To this day I do not call him my grandfather, I refer to him as  a complete stranger.

This recession has affected me and my family in many ways. Now that we are going through hard times we have had to cut back on a lot of things like going out to eat, going to the movies, going on road trips, and lots of other activities that take money.Gas has gone up so it restricts us from going on long trips. Sure it may help the global warming situation but it keeps us from seeing our families that live in other towns. I don’t think that Obama is going to be able to pull us out of this recession, because we are in so deep that it might be impossible to do. Since we have been in this recession people have not been as generous because they are keeping their belongings for themselves and they are trying to take things that don’t belong to them. So in conclusion I don;t think that our country is going to progress from this recession.

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