Essay on "Philosophy I Am the Eldest"

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I am the eldest of three children and my father left our family when I was 12-years-old and my younger sisters were four and three years of age. My mother is a teacher of mentally-challenged children and so her work -- though rewarding -- was often very taxing on her emotionally. Between working full-time as a teacher and being a newly-single parent, she needed all the help she could get at home. I became another kind of parent to my two younger sisters. Once they were both in school, I was the one who went with my mother to parent-teacher conferences. I watched their school plays and helped them with their homework, and when I was old enough to drive, I drove them to ballet class and picked them up from sleepovers with their friends. I had become, in a sense, a father figure for them. They sometimes called me "daddy" and then realized they had made the mistake, though I never corrected them. It was simply that I had become that kind of figure in their eyes.

While my sisters did very well in school, my grades slipped shortly after my father had left. I had always done extremely well in school, but the new responsibilities that I had to undertake, as well as the emotional crisis I, myself, was going through, too its toll on me. I wanted everything for my younger sisters. I was bound and determined, even at twelve and later as a teenager, to make sure that they never lacked anything when it came to attention and help in everything that they needed.

I was called in to talk to a counselor a few months after my father had left and this counselor was very helpful and understanding what I was going through. I was able to express how I felt to her and it helped me to have an outlet for that because, though I was still a child, I didn't want to burden my mother as I knew she was going through her own emotional rollercoaster.

I feel that this period in my life helped me became a responsible human being. I was able to become a person at a very young age who could juggle homework, help my sisters with their homework, and help to take care of a household. I feel that though it was a difficult time, I owe that time in my life to being prepared for the responsibility of achieving some of my educational goals. I learned that I am quite apt at juggling numerous responsibilities at once and though there was a period in my life where my grades slipped a bit, it did not last. I was able to deal with the emotions associated with my father leaving and move on. My grades throughout junior high and high school were very good and I am proud that I was able to overcome such a difficult thing for a child.

I am interested in business management and I believe that I will be successful in the field because of my ability to juggle responsibilities and inspire others. My sisters maintain… READ MORE

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