They need me, and I need them to keep me strong. Till one day, I said, I have to be strong for my family. From there, it was like the path of my life turned to darkness, as you would say, downhill for a while. I found out I was pregnant with my 2nd child, though, so as you know, I said, “I’ll go next year.”Ī year turns into 8 years, and in between I had a 3rd child. Around this time, I decided to go back to school. I was embarrassed and ashamed, and it really made me feel bad about myself. I went there in good spirits, didn’t know not having my high school diploma would prevent me from getting a job in this way or affect my life. So, when I made it to the high school part, I skpped that part, but somehow they called me for an interview. She tried to get me a job there, so I went to fill out an application. School really didn’t hit me until one day I moved to Ohio, and I had a good friend, she worked for the state. I thought that’s what you do when you start college, but for me it started early, and at 20, I had my first child. But, I lost focus, got caught up doing what young kids do, going out, partying. When I was 16, I was angry and very tired of my mom taking care of 9 children by herself, so one day I said enough is enough. I was in the 12th grade with only one class or, as they told me, one unit to finish school, so I took correspondence English 4, and started to work helping my mom.
When I got in 11th grade, all the drawing & writing stopped. I think something really went wrong there. Going into middle school, I was more into writing poems and drawing, as I can remember at that time. Sometimes I was lost and really didn’t understand a lot of things. I had to study and do my homework on my own. Enough is enough!!! Hello, my name is Helen. Well, how should I start? As I was growing up in the southern part of Mississippi where there was very little books to go around in the classroom, my mother couldn’t read and write, so we had no help and also little good education.
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