<p>Hey guys can you tell me if this essay is decent for the 2nd prompt or if it's too emotional...or any feedback whatsoever would be great
thanksss!</p>
<p>Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>
<p>Family is a stable force in most peoples lives and also something many people take for granted because they assume that it will always be there regardless of the circumstances. My family relations, however, have been different from those of most families for a very large portion of my life. Consequently, I was forced to grow up faster than most kids my age, which has given me, and continues to give me, the strength and independence I have learned to cherish through the years.
My parents were separated in Australia but decided to work things out and move to the United States. Not long after, however, they started talking about a divorce, and when I was twelve, my mother became clinically depressed. She spent the majority of her day in bed and could not bring herself to do anything or talk to anybody. My dad and I were forced to find time to go to work and school, to do the housework, and to look after my two- and four-year old brothers. I have never been very close to either of my parents, so I never asked questions. As a result, I never really understood what was happening and why. All I knew is that I felt abandoned and that my brothers and I had to stop relying on the emotional support of my parents because they were too involved in their own fights to supply it. At this point, I became almost like a substitute mother for my brothers. My mom moved out a year and a half later with my brothers, and I expected the turbulence that had torn my family apart to pass. My dad and I took care of everything they left behind, so I never really got the chance to enjoy the carefree life of a twelve-year-old: I grew up much faster, mentally and emotionally, than other kids my age.
Unfortunately, the so-called turbulence was not over. I vividly remember the day two months after my mom and brothers left. I received the devastating news that they were involved in a horrible car accident that left all three of them hospitalized and very seriously injured. As I walked into the intensive care unit of the hospital that night, I experienced the most sobering moment of my life: Seeing my baby brothers lying unconscious, hurt, and covered with tubes that were essentially allowing them life was too horrifying for words. In that moment, I felt like I had emotionally aged ten years because I felt that no one, especially a fourteen-year-old girl and her family that had just been torn into pieces, deserved the amount of pain that this tragedy caused us.
Although the events and emotions I have experienced are not necessarily those I would wish to relive, I can safely say that the traumatizing events in past seven years of my life have immensely affected my character and shaped me into the person I am today. I no longer resent my parents for forcing me to grow up faster than I should have; instead, I have come to embrace the person I have become as a result of these experiences. I value the strong, independent, and hard-working character I have built through the hard times in my life and hope never to lose it.</p>