I technically wasn't in the foster care system but I am part of a bonus family. When I was 16 years old my mom left me to go to Texas and told me I was going to move in with my girlfriend and her dad I was okay with it mostly because I got to stay with my friends but I mean it sucks when you see everyone else with their families and you don't really have one because of the fact that my girlfriend's dad was not really the nicest person to me once he got a girlfriend. Everything was okay up until about November of 2021 things got messy like a lot of yelling and depression hitting hard I would stay in my bed all day and would not be motivated to go to school because I would get yelled at just about every day for weeks at a time and it would be over nothing just because they didn't like me and so I stayed with them for about 4 more months and I was sick and couldn't really do anything about it because my dad died when I was 7 and my mom had left me and gave me no chance of going with her so I felt alone in this world and I would confide in a teacher at my school and she offered to take me in as her own and that made me feel wanted and I had never felt that before but then the school principle got involved and told us that she couldn't take me in because she is a teacher and I am a student but I was in need of a home I had nowhere to go because my girlfriend's dad kicked me out in march of 2022 and this is where it all went downhill my principle called my biological mom and told her that I was homeless and couldn't come to school anymore so I got kicked out of my house that I lived in and out of the school that I went to and my biological mom was on her way to come and get me as I told my principle that it was not safe to go with my bio mom and they told me that I had to go or else and I cried and pleaded my case but they didn't listen so my girlfriend came up with this lie about how we had a test or something because my bio mom didn't know that I wasn't allowed to go back to school so my bio mom took me with her to texas for 3 days and then I came back and I talked to my girlfriends mom because her dad and mom are separated and my girlfriends mom told me that I could move in with her which I was so excited because I got to stay in my home but I had to go to another school but it all worked out and in the end I got an amazing bonus family.

The dream version of my future self is the one where I am successful, happy, have a great job that I love, and that I am proud of myself.

I lost my dad when I was 7 years old and he died of cystic fibrosis this has helped me "fight" by seeing what there is to life and how I can help people and what I can do with my life. He was a respiratory therapist and helped people, but how come he still died is what I would ask myself but that is how it sometimes happens. I push myself to be able to help people with his condition and see what I can do with my life just like him. I also lost my mom she didn't die but she did abandon me which is kind of like her dying we don't talk anymore and I don't see her. She has made me "fight" is seeing what she did wrong my mother was an addict and she didn't graduate high school and she didn't do anything with her life I have seen her overdose and her just about dead. She has pushed me like no other because most kids my age want to be like their parents and I want to be the exact opposite I want to do something with my life unlike her and I don't have the parental support like other kids to where their parents will help them pay for college I have a guardian with 5 other kids so loosing both of my parents has pushed me into becoming something great and something that my mom wishes she was and someone who my dad would be proud of.