Stegmaier Family Scholarship

Have you ever participated in a family meeting? What are your opinions on them? My family would talk about our opinions on current events, the future, life lessons, and what everyone was involved with at that moment and I despised them. I believed they were pointless, a waste of time because to me, they were so long and irrelevant. In hindsight, I now realized how important those meetings were throughout each stage of my life. Those family meetings helped me develop into who I am. I was always lost and confused because I never listened to my family. I took the support and love they provided for granted. I grew up believing love was overbearing control from my parents and they used that to imprison me. Developing throughout my high school years I realized my parents are humans who have responsibilities just as I do too. Not taking that into consideration led me to develop some bad habits because I developed a selfish mindset. I ran away from home, lied, and did things I regret. I lost everything at one point, rather I thought I lost everything because the only support at the end was my family. I had dug myself into a grave so many times because I chose myself rather than my family and others, those selfish actions led me nowhere but destruction. I could not remove myself there because I neglected not to do so, staying comfortable to where I was the ideal approach. Those family meetings prepared me to do my best, showed my faults, was true to who I was, and was, provided love because in the end family is there to care for one another. I was able to break some bad habits and the others are being worked on, but I’m not doing it alone. I was always lost and confused because I never listened to my family. I took the support and love they provided for granted. I grew up believing love was overbearing control from my parents and they used that to imprison me. Developing throughout my high school years I realized my parents are humans who have responsibilities just as I do too. Not taking that into consideration led me to develop some bad habits because I developed a selfish mindset. I ran away from home, lied, and did things I regret. I lost everything at one point, rather I thought I lost everything because the only support at the end was my family. I had dug myself into a grave so many times because I chose myself rather than my family and others, those selfish actions led me nowhere but destruction. I could not remove myself there because I neglected not to do so, staying comfortable to where I was the ideal approach. Those family meetings prepared me to do my best, showed my faults, was true to who I was, and provided love because in the end family is there to care for one another. I was able to break some bad habits and the others are being worked on, but I’m not doing it alone.