Live,laugh,love seems to be a quote that many people like to use to live a happy life. In order to live a great life, it should be filled with love and laugher but my life has been far from it. As a young child, both of my parents died. When I was two I was adopted by my fathers cousins, Guy and Linda Maxwell. My name was changed from Mary Violet Pettengill to Mary Beth Maxwell. I grew up as a pretty normal child, I had three brothers and a family that loved me more than I could ever know. When I was in third grade, My father developed Renal Cell Carcinoma. As my father was slowly dying from stage four cancer, I was trying to live the life of a developing child. My fathers illness really was a hard thing for me to deal with. At the age of twelve, my hero passed away and went to be with God. It was a really hard time for me and his death is still a daily struggle for me to deal with. He was the only father I ever knew and he will no longer be here in my life to experience the love and heartaches that I will go through. Growing up the past 6 years without him has been very very hard. He was not there for me to enter high school, he wasn't there for the moment I made the softball team, he wasn't there when I became the chief editor of the yearbook, he wasn't there when I became the class president, he wasn't there to see me go on my first date, he wasn't there for prom, he wasn't there when I graduated, he wasn't there when I was accepted to college, he wasn't there when I received my scholarship and he isn't here to help me experience life on my own. I am without it physically but mentally and spiritually he is with me and always will be. This is still a hard concept for me to grasp but I have to believe it. 2010 is a year that I will grasp and make it into a year that will change my life. This year I will LIVE life fully, LAUGH often with friends and family and learn to LOVE everything around me and love myself! This is the year of change!
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