Blank Slate


They say we all have a blank slate when we are born. We can be anything, do anything with our lives but what family you are born into determines a lot in my opinion. I was born into a family of six children with a mom who stayed home with us and a father who drank to much and worked to hard. No matter what I did I could not have overcome the events that would unfold due to the economic stress of having seven children and losing work due to drinking and womanizing that occurred in my parents marriage. The seven of us had to learn some real hard lessons and one is that you may be born a blank slate but there may already be writing on the wall when you are born saying this road is leading in a hard direction.