My life in Quotes

"Hi, Deborah, I'm Joshua Harke and I'm your biological son. It's taken me a while to get to today. I have quite a lot of questions and I completely understand if you don't want to share but I would love to know.  I don't know the whole story as to why I was given up for adoption but I was raised by the Harke's with love and I feel blessed to call them my family. I would like to get the chance to know you and I will try to understand that if you should choose to not wish to speak to me I will respect that. But whichever way you chose you should know somethings: I wanted to tell you a little bit about myself. I'm a published author and blogger. I love art and reading for fun. I went to a few schools in NC and I live here now. I love kids yet I have none. I have been told I'm special and that there's this light inside of me. I want to make a change in this world but sometimes I struggle. I'm planning on finishing my second Associ...

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." Mother Teresa Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve to be loved and I feel like a burden on my friends. This stems from being given away for adoption. I don't think I can handle such a rejection like that ever again if I ever decide to contact my birth mom. Those statements feel irrational to many people I feel like but let me explain. What happened to me? Why do I feel this way? When I got deported to North Carolina from New York State, I kicked and screamed. I said stuff like can I live with Grandma and my Mom was like, Grandma is done raising kids lol! That's not what Grandma's are for! I understand that now. I moved to the south and it sucked. I can remember some things from moving here, mainly the rough moments that stick out. Like I made friends really fast when I moved here but my career in middle school was tumultuous. I went to Crown Christian when I moved here but I...