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Ride the Rollercoaster

For fifteen years, the attention was on me and now I have to share it, that’s when my life shattered. “We’re having a baby!” I heard my parents say those words with joy. I was a carefree teen with an easygoing life and lenient parents. My main focus was on school, trying to get the best grades and maintaining a perfect attendance record. I was a sophomore at that time, still trying to adjust to high school and figuring out what I wanted to do in the future.

That’s when it happened; my parents told me they were having a baby. As I sat there on the living room couch, a lot of thoughts crossed my mind. Was this a good or bad thing and why now? A giant and significant age gap between the baby and us sisters were present. Of course I was happy, but it was not the right timing. The whole experience felt rushed because adjustments needed to be made in a small amount of time. My mom worked until she was six months pregnant and went on leave. At the time, our landlord raised the rent so we had to move out. This is when everything started going downhill. It felt like nothing else could go wrong.

We found a really nice house in , fit for a baby to live in, but it was really far away from . I complained a lot about waking up so early in the morning. My mom would ask, “Why don’t you move to ?” Transferring was a hassle, but it would be easier to get to school. I still opposed it because making new friends was difficult for me. My friends tried to help me out as much as possible. They saw me slowly spiraling down, so every day; they would lend me an ear. I was glad I decided to stay in . When my baby sister was eleven months, a lot was going on. We were moving, planning my sister’s first birthday, and her baptismal. It was absolutely hectic and my parents were really tired. “Could you take care of her?” my parents would beg. Sometimes I would put the baby before homework because I needed to help out my parents. I had to sacrifice and take the initiative to baby-sit the baby. I had a sense of how hard it is to be a teen mom. Having a baby around the house made the environment hectic, yet happier.

My life altering moment was when my baby sister turned one year old. I realized how fast a year could fly by in a blink of an eye. I paid so much attention to my baby sister that I did not realize my own life improvements. I overcame many hardships that are like small stones to me now. I cannot predict what is going to happen in the future but I know how to change the outcome to something better. I’m glad that this transition happened. I’m sure there are many more to come.

Having a baby sister made me mature. I learned how hard my parents worked for us and how hard it was to be a parent. Now, I’m more family oriented because I used to worry more about myself, now, I worry about them more often. I can also take better care of myself because my parents are spending most of their time taking care of the baby so I had to be less dependent on them. Looking back at what I’ve been through, I would be a complete mess if I did not have such great family and friends to work on this change together. They were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless. None of them were perfect but they each helped me go through this and told me to keep my head up and build from it.

We go through transitions in life; each one helps us prepare for the next. Like a rollercoaster ride. The first time is scary because you do not know where it will loop and turn. The second time, even if it’s a whole new rollercoaster with different loops and turns, you are prepared to adjust to those feelings. This was just 1 of many of future transitions that I would have to face in life.