BeIng Raised In a Traditional Mexican Home

BeIng Raised In a Traditional Mexican Home

Being raised in a traditional Mexican home, I lived a very sheltered life with a preconceived life that my parents presented to me. I was raised Catholic, had completed all my sacraments, I grew up understanding right from wrong, and had the idea that the only way of life is excepting what my parents have taught me. Never once did I dear to question their ways of life, their practices, nor their beliefs. My family was the basis of how I became the women I am now. Someone who is eager to create this world of mine filled with knowledge, experience, and my own thoughts and ideas. God, family and education have been the center of my life and I have always represented the core of my parent's values, morals and aptitudes, but it was time that I took the riskier journey of them all: The journey to be oneself and to find what represents who I am.
My mother, born in Mexico, migrated to the U.S in search for a new life. She was raised by my great grandmother who was very conservative and carried on her old traditional ways to my mother. My mother did not receive much education, but in her family, education was not much of importance. My mother spend most of her young life learning how to cook, clean, and all the demands asked of from a Mexican women. Being a wife was the only basis of their future and what would make a husband very happy. Later in life my mom had met my father. My father was born and raised in Los Angeles where he came from poverty. My grandfather passed away, leaving him, his mother and his sibling to care for and foster. My dad struggled in life to maintain a home for his siblings, and still go to school. He knew that they only way to excel in his life was to get an education to further his opportunities. My dad eventually went on to grad school where he attended the University of Southern California where he graduated from and received a degree.
My parents later had three children, one in which I was born: the only girl of three. I never knew what I...