Assignment 22- Kayla Conrad

The biggest experience that has impacted my life and who I am as a person is definitely my parents getting divorced. Now, I don’t have a sappy and sad story about my family being ripped apart, my parents just simply didn’t fit. Coming from a Christian background, divorce is usually frowned upon but I think even the church was okay with my parents splitting. They are both amazing, wonderful people who are great parents but they weren’t great together.
I wish I could tell you a sad story about how after my parents split, I was angry at the hw world and fostered that anger into something really meaningful to make me a genius, but I didn’t. I was really too young at the time and didn’t really understand what was happening. I have few memories of them actually being together so my whole life has been centered around my schedule. But it was all I knew, to me, it was normal for a 9 year old girl to switch houses every 3 nights and have two separate sets of, well, everything. This management of schedules has completely shaped me into the person I am today. If I didn’t have a uniform for school at my moms house, we simply drove to my dads house 30 minutes away to pick one up, no questions asked and vise versa. You can imagine my surprise when I first started going to sleepovers where all the others girls didn’t have flexible schedules or a “to-go” bag with all my daily necessities. I was never upset about my situation because I had become accostumeted to it. Now, my schedule is ever changing and is never set in stone until after something happens, you learn to live like that with two houses. I have learned to roll with the punches because you can’t control everything but you can take advantage of what you do have. I have learned to adjust on the fly while also making the most out of my time because, imagine; as a parent you only get to see your children half of their life so you really learn to make the best out of every single second. If you, as a parent, seems like time flies by with your children, try splitting that time with another parent. But once again, I am completely happy with my situation and I would have it no other way because I thrive in the chaos and I like to adjust on the go, it is not part of me and my personality!