“I tried to find pleasure in simple things—moonlit bike rides, Reese’s Pieces, E.T. in a woman’s hat. Still, my parents’ tumultuous breakup ate away at me.”
When I was ten years old, suburban and average, something happened that changed the course of my life. We were the first house on our street to experience the phenomenon, though to me it felt like we were the first on the planet. That year, my family received a surprise visitor—divorce.
You asked about a challenge or a struggle that I had to overcome. Well, I struggled to answer. What could I possibly say that would interest you, the admissions staff of the University of California, Berkeley? Then it dawned on me—the most significant experience of my otherwise unremarkable youth was when my parents’ separation forced me to overcome my fear of being different, and to accept differences in others.
I tried to find pleasure in simple things—moonlit bike rides, Reese’s Pieces, E.T. in a woman’s hat. Still, my parents’ tumultuous breakup ate away at me. Some kids might say that having two homes is great, but when you’re on your dad’s pullout sofa, struggling to fall asleep next to the clammy skin of an interplanetary goblin, and you realize that you forgot your favorite red hoodie at your mom’s? Not so fun. Sometimes, when it felt like my father was a galaxy away, E.T.
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