Jacob+V’s+Final+AmEx+2014+Speech

=Title of Speech= My sister

=Text of Speech= I’m the youngest of three children and as I grew up I looked up to my two older sisters. Mainly I looked up to my real sister who is only 3 years older than me. When we were much younger, I could go as far as to say she was like a best friend. We pretty much did everything together. Throughout middle school you could say she was a perfect child: straight A’s, she played multiple sports, and never really got in trouble. But as for many kids, high school was the worst thing that could’ve happened to her. She hung around the wrong group of people and slowly started getting into drugs. Drugs ruined her chances of any potential success she would’ve had in her life. Her senior year she failed all her classes and ended up getting suspended the last week of school for drug possession. It’s just embarrassing that she never got to walk and had to go to adult education just to get her diploma. But being caught with weed was only a minor problem compared to what she developed during high school which destroyed her life. Heroin. My sister is a heroin addict. Along with many other drugs like cocaine and marijuana and also prescription drugs which she abuses, my sister has been doing drugs for about four years now. Within these four years, she has been in and out of jail and rehab centers, which had no effect on her since she goes back to drugs within days of getting out of rehab. And within these past four years, my sister has admitted to stealing over four thousand dollars from both me and my mom so she can buy herself more drugs. And one time, she found herself in trouble when she did not have money she owed a dealer who supplied her drugs. This is not the sister I looked up to when I was a kid. This is not the sister I want. I do not love my sister anymore. She has caused my family and I so much pain that I could not forgive her for all the bullshit she has put us through. I have distanced myself as far as I possibly can from my sister because I know that Death watches over her and it is only a matter of time before she overdoses, and by doing this it allows me the least amount of pain caused from her death. I have never seen my mom break down and cry as many times in my life as I have in the past year. To me my sister does nothing but use up space in our house that she does not deserve. But even through all the pain, my mom still lets her 19 year old daughter, who bounces in and out of jail, brings home a random guy just about every month who she calls her “boyfriend”, who has dropped out of Ventura College twice to go to rehab and end up going back to drugs, who comes home smelling disgusting because of all the drugs she has been around, live in our house. And I have to deal with this for another year because my sister will still live in my house even after I graduate and go off college because she would not be able to live on her own. Now, I can barely look at my sister and speaking even ten words a day with her is something I cannot stand and the more time she spends in the house, the more I just want to throw all her stuff out onto the yard and kick her out. But luckily for her it is my mom who is in charge and she cannot bear to throw her own daughter out onto the street. The only reason my sister is still alive today is because of my mom. My sister depends on my mom instead of depending on herself. In the America I wish to grow old in, I wish to see my sister hit rock bottom and realize her mistakes. I wish to see my mom kick my sister out of the house and onto the street so she can experience the world alone. I wish to see my sister realize the path she is on will not lead to a long or successful life and that path will only cause her and everyone around her pain and eventually her own death. I wish to see my sister ask for help because she truly wants it, instead of my parents wanting it for her. I wish to see my sister not bounce back to drugs right as she gets back from rehab. And I wish to see my sister, one day when she is sober and living a clean life, to be embraced by her family, but not by her only brother.

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