It all started off when I was younger. I didn’t have anyone around. I always lived with my Great Grand-mother until three years ago. My Mother was only sixteen when she had me and couldn’t take care of me. Part of me is telling me how I don’t want to end up like my mother. Never finish high school neither college. I plan on finishing High School and continue my education and go on to college without being stuck out here in life. I would love to be the first in my generation to complete college with nothing stopping me. My mind is set and that is that I’m going to accomplish. No matter what happens. Knowing that I thought all the time that I was going to follow in my mother’s footsteps scared me. The thought of going to jail ,of being pregnant at sixteen, not finishing high school and going on to college. Is the thought’s I would never want to think about ever again. But even though I was thinking about this all my life it helped me. It helped me to be able to make it this far knowing that I am doing the right thing in life. When my mother told me that she was glad that she got her GED before I graduate high school was something good to hear. That was something good to hear because it showed me that I was doing the right things and I was making it somewhere. The thoughts of following in her footsteps just started to fade away. Fade away because I could see that I was not going to end up like how I pictured. I would be able to follow my dreams. Accomplish my goals. Become whoever I wanted to become with nothing in the way of stopping me. As I think ahead to when I am a college student I realize that in order for me to do and be whoever I want to be. I have to do what I always wanted to do. Go to college. I’ve learned from my mother mistakes and many mistakes I have made throughout my life. This showed me that I have no choice but to do it. But then again I do have a