My neighborhood

To what extent does a person’s neighborhood shape who she or he is?

 I am who I am because of the neighborhood I lived in. I grew up in a neighborhood called Alice Griffith (Double Rock). It is a community located by the 49ers stadium. Some will say it is on the south side of the Bay View Hunters point. Double Rock is now a gated community that they’re planning on tearing down and remolding in the near future. It was not always gated so I feel like we came along way, just to find out that was only the beginning of all the changes to come. It hurts me to know that one day everything is going to be different. You see everybody is like family; we seem to have this togetherness that most communities do not understand. Growing up there was one of the best things that could have ever happen to me. It made me strong, stronger than most people my age in some sense. At 24 years old I have some really tough skin because of some the things that I have seen or encountered. It installed a smarts in me that most young women do not obtain. It also showed me what I didn’t want to become or where I would never want my daughter grow up. They say you have to know where you are from to know where you are going, so that’s y I appreciate my neighborhood. Without it there is no telling where I would be, probably somewhere lost. For most of my life I isolated myself from the rest of the world only caring about what went on behind them gates, which now has turned me into a woman that is fascinated with traveling. My dream is to see the world from every angle and do all the things other cultures have to offer. I have seen people lose their lives, end up in jail or fall victim to drugs, those things showed me so much and what path I was never going to follow. This is only a small introduction to the small world that made me who I am called Double Rock.