Product Of My Enviroment

I am a product of my neighborhood because where I grew up it was filled with murals representing the struggles of our people some represented w women’s rights others had Cesar Chavez and the crusade he lead also were murals showing respect for the young people we have lost in our community due to gang violence A result of the gang violence that went on in my community I lost my boyfriend of five years  he finally got his life together and started doing right and he was gunned down in front of his home. I got caught up in the not so positive parts of my community the underground part that only  the news portrayed as negative and bringing the community's property level So in a since my community molded me to be the person that I am today because of the o occurrences that took place in my community that directly affected me. At the same time I used the negative events in my life to help me push forward and not become the stereotype everyone expected me to be. Growing up in a predominately Latin neighborhood I gained a since of respect for the culture and history around me and what it meant to me as one of the      people of the neighborhood and what it meant to the people in the neighborhood.  despite growing up in my neighborhood it also didn't mold me to be who I am because at the end of the day I make my own decisions for my life and were its going may it be negative direction or positive direction I'm taking control of my destiny