“Through others, we become ourselves.” This is a famous quote said by Lev S. Vygotsky. There is so many ideas both old and new that always rome around us and make us who we are. It could be from your family, friends, or even a stranger. Who I’m I you might ask. I I’m a cluster of many different ideas that surround me from day to day basis, my beliefs, and actions. Through tragic events that have happened in my life, my culture, and beliefs I have become the individual that I am today.

I was brought into this would eight-teen years ago by my very young mother and father. I struggled for three months to stay alive in the incubator, but through all the love of my parents I made it through. My parents had to move out of El Paso shortly after my birth to be able to decent way of living. Of course the struggle of having a child so young and having to worry about bills shelter, and food; things started to get really and at home. Domestic violence was an issue in my family which is why my mother left my dad so she can try and raise me on her own and have a good way of living. Till this day of my life I have little to no contact with my father. My mom took the role of both parents for my sibling and I. Economic issues where always something that we had to worry about. We were always in and out of homes, sometimes we had very little to eat. Even though we had so many things going on my mother never cared to show or tell people about our problems because she didn't want to seem weak but late at nigh I could hear her sobbing through the sheet that separated us. Through out it all she always found a way to make the ends meet. My mother had thought me a lot and has been an enormous part of shaping who I am. She thought me that things could always be worse and to never forget who I am and where I come form. She is the person behind the morals and values that I so strongly hold.