Cave Experience

My mom moved my two sisters and I here to KY when I was three years old. She was unemployed and we settled in an area that was surrounded by people with low income. I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks I guess you could say. I hung out with what most people in the upper ends of society would call the wrong crowd. However, I loved my friends. We had fun breaking the rules at any given moment, hanging out all hours of the night and good luck trying to make us go to school. That was how I grew up. 

A few things in my life changed when I was about 15 years old. I could no longer live with my mom and moved in with a woman who has been sitting comfortably in the upper end of society her whole life. So by choice I ascended because I wanted to be like her. I left my old values of fun first hard work later behind and became a little more devoted to school and working first and fun later. 

There have been times when I have tried to visit my old friends and they always say I've "changed" or that I am "different" or "weird." Some of my old friends don't even talk to me anymore because we don't really share the same values so we don't really get along anymore. I think some might be jealous, angry and maybe even confused by the new me. They don't understand why I would make a decision to come home early so I can get sleep, they don't understand how I could go to college and sit in class all day by choice. And some may be angry that I am making a life for myself instead of sitting in the cave of low income, screaming infants and bad choices, I grew up, with them. 

My summer breaks I like to spend by the pool or at King's Island. I enjoy doing fun things over the summer which is my cave. This summer by researching and getting involved with this project is going to challenge my mind and serve as an ascension from my normal "cave"-like summers. I will be learning more about something in my community and develop an appreciation for a place I can visit often.