Dear Santa Claus,
My name is Martha Johnson. I just turned 53 years old in October. I live in Chicago, Illinois and I stay in a pretty bad neighborhood. My neighborhood's nickname is "Chiraq." It's a combination of Chicago and Iraq. We got this nickname because of the violence that occurs here very often. But getting back to my circumstances... There's a lot of trouble brewing in my neighborhood. We have drug lords and thugs that stay here and I never feel as if I'm safe. I can never sleep at night because I'm worried that someone might break into my house and rob me, or even worse, kill me. My home is right beside the local trap-house, and so there's always a possibility that something could go very wrong. I hear gunshots almost everyday...throughout the days and the nights and I get tired of it. It scares me so much that some days I don't want to leave the house to go to work or to go get groceries, because I fear that I may get shot. I resent living in constant fear and anxiousness like this.
Honestly, it kind of feels like I'm going to be stuck here for the rest of my life. I grew up in this same exact neighborhood for most of my childhood. I never went to college because I was a slacker in school, I never did my work like the other kids.. Instead I skipped school with my friends and walked around the outskirts of the city looking for trouble. We stole a lot and we were always finding ourselves in massive trouble. Most of the friends that I made during my time of childhood are either dead.. or somewhere in the prison system. I've tried to change the person that I was once was, and I feel as if I'm doing pretty well right now. I don't steal like I used to.. and I haven't taken any sort of drugs in the past 15 years of my life.
If I could get out of my depressing neighborhood, I would've left a long, long time ago. But I don't have much of a choice but to stay here because of my current circumstances. I've made a lot of mistakes in the past and now the consequences and repercussions of my actions are starting to catch up with me.
My life has been pretty tough up to this point, but I've tried to find ways to persevere and survive through it. I try to live my life positively now, and I make sure that I try to make wise decisions about things that could affect me in the long run.
If I could have any thing for Christmas.... It would be to have enough money to get my life on the right track and to move into a safer neighborhood..
My name is Martha Johnson. I just turned 53 years old in October. I live in Chicago, Illinois and I stay in a pretty bad neighborhood. My neighborhood's nickname is "Chiraq." It's a combination of Chicago and Iraq. We got this nickname because of the violence that occurs here very often. But getting back to my circumstances... There's a lot of trouble brewing in my neighborhood. We have drug lords and thugs that stay here and I never feel as if I'm safe. I can never sleep at night because I'm worried that someone might break into my house and rob me, or even worse, kill me. My home is right beside the local trap-house, and so there's always a possibility that something could go very wrong. I hear gunshots almost everyday...throughout the days and the nights and I get tired of it. It scares me so much that some days I don't want to leave the house to go to work or to go get groceries, because I fear that I may get shot. I resent living in constant fear and anxiousness like this.
Honestly, it kind of feels like I'm going to be stuck here for the rest of my life. I grew up in this same exact neighborhood for most of my childhood. I never went to college because I was a slacker in school, I never did my work like the other kids.. Instead I skipped school with my friends and walked around the outskirts of the city looking for trouble. We stole a lot and we were always finding ourselves in massive trouble. Most of the friends that I made during my time of childhood are either dead.. or somewhere in the prison system. I've tried to change the person that I was once was, and I feel as if I'm doing pretty well right now. I don't steal like I used to.. and I haven't taken any sort of drugs in the past 15 years of my life.
If I could get out of my depressing neighborhood, I would've left a long, long time ago. But I don't have much of a choice but to stay here because of my current circumstances. I've made a lot of mistakes in the past and now the consequences and repercussions of my actions are starting to catch up with me.
My life has been pretty tough up to this point, but I've tried to find ways to persevere and survive through it. I try to live my life positively now, and I make sure that I try to make wise decisions about things that could affect me in the long run.
If I could have any thing for Christmas.... It would be to have enough money to get my life on the right track and to move into a safer neighborhood..
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