the personal essay

Darin Radatz
English A.P. 3rd hour
9-16-03

The Personal Essay
Throughout my seventeen years of life there has been one main person who has been influential to me, that individual is my mother who brought me into this world, Sharon Lynn Radatz.
My mother taught me the life lessons from respecting my elders to saving myself sexually for marriage. As I have grown older physically, I also have in maturity. When I was in my young teenage years I thought that her lectures and life experience stories were just for nagging and aggravation, but just recently in the last couple of years I realized that she was just trying to help me from life’s miseries and the mistakes she made as a young adult growing up. In other words she just wants me to live up to the high expectations she has for me.
To this day I can remember one of the first lessons ...