"Sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulders, everyone's leaning on me..... I act like shit don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy! My insecurities could eat me alive!" Eminem truly described it best. There has been so many times in my life when my emotions run ramped, and I have nowhere to release them. These are the times when I never used to know where to turn, how to deal with everything, or what to do. In the past, I just bottled up all my emotions until it felt as if they would drive me insane. It wasn't until about a year ago that I found my escape, writing.
             Life without writing is like cereal without milk, it would never be the same! Writing is the part of my overall existence that completes me. I use the gift of words in my everyday life to express myself, release emotions, and escape my fears. There's nothing better than sitting down with a piece of paper and a pen, and making my thoughts dance on the page like a rippling stream of poetry. For those brief moments in time it is as if all your problems disappear. When you are done writing, you feel at ease with what was previously bothering you. In everyone's lives there are certain experiences that touch them in many different ways. In my life, I have certainly had that experience. My dad's health has been my inspiration and aspiration to write.
             Ever since I was a little girl, for as long as I can remember, my dad has struggled with health problem after problem. When I was just five years old he had his first major surgery, a liver transplant. Things went pretty well after that, until his kidneys started to fail and in 1998; My mom then gave my dad one of her kidneys. Within a couple of years, unfortunately, that kidney failed as well, leaving my dad on dialysis, his health deteriorating. Since then he has had a heart attack, open heart surgery, two amputated fingers and a toe, and countless life threat...