We all want to grow up with that perfect life, in the perfect family, and be perfectly happy. But we all know that we never get what we want. Some of us grew up with divorced parents, some of us grew up without any parents and was in a foster home until they're eighteen, other kids almost grew up in foster home. And that kid was me.

Everyone has baggage and some people just have more than others do. My childhood was a total mess. I was only seventeen months old when I was taken away from my parents by the state due to drug abuse and child neglect. Like my other siblings I was almost placed in a foster him. Almost. Thankfully, I had an amazing woman come into my life to protect my younger brother and I from having to live in the foster care system. That woman was my grandmother. My father left all of his kids behind to restart his life while we were left in the dust to battle our own mother in court. My mother on the other hand tried to fight for joint custody of me and my siblings. Growing up that's what my life consisted of: court dates, counseling appointments, and weekends spent at my mom's house.

So it's easy to say that I didn't have the typical childhood growing up. And I'm sure that some of you have had it harder than I have but I just want you all to know that no matter what you're going through, there is always someone there to stand by your side to help you through all that you're going through. That person for me was my grandmother. She made raised me to be exactly who I wished to be no matter how many struggles I had to go through to get there. I'm sure that many of you out there have gone through struggles and have over come them with help or even sometimes by yourself, but just remember that there is always someone by your side to support you.