Donna Rangirangi
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Hard to love
Growing up life was awesome. We weren’t rich but we weren’t poor either. There were ups and downs and ins and outs but life went on. Loved my parents. Have 3 siblings, we were a typical Māori whānau(family) and who knew my life would be so amazing in the future? Kindergarten as I remember was the best. I loved it. I used to get picked up from my kindy teacher and dropped off afterwards, she was so pretty. We’ll that’s what I can remember of her. She had this yellow buggy and I just thought she was the bees knees. Primary school was…., mixed up for me. I started at one school on my side of town, but then I had to go to another school the next year cause my parents worked and I’d have to stay with my grandparents, which wasn’t bad at all I loved them. I loved kapahaka. I used to love singing in the toilets at my first primary, it had an awesome echo. Intermediate or middle school…… I was excited and anxious. I wish I had the courage to just relax and just go with the flow back then but I would soon come to learn. Had my first real pash at intermediate 🤦♂️😂. He was a year above me and I was just this young dumb year 7 doing things only our mamas should be doin. I was shallow and didn’t even know it then I regret being like that then, now. Highschool partly wasn’t for me????? I don’t know, just wasn’t as focused as I should have been and in the beginning was, however things definitely changed. I made good friends and was ok in class but I just didn’t apply myself. I started smoking weed. Love it. Haven’t done much of life without it since and it sure been a journey and a half. Good and bad. Funny and sad. Lost a lot of loved ones along the way but gained more too. After highschool I fell pregnant. I gave birth to twins. We lived alone for 4 years and I fell pregnant again and for the second time round the father to my baby didn’t want me and doubted that my child was his, so I told him to get and so it was just my babies and I for a little while. After a year or so, I met the love of my life and the man I’m with to this day. It has not been an easy ride. It’s definitely been bumpy, and we felt like we were drowning at some point but we have and are still soldiering on. For my family’s sake. I could have walked away more times than I can imagine due to some pretty hard times but I beloved god bought me to this man and this man to me, and I am going to with all my power love him to the fullest for the rest of my days. It hasn’t always been algood. In the beginning I didn’t realise that he was a certain way, now 17 years and 7 kids later, I can say I am stronger than I used to be I just wished I realised earlier that even though you love a person doesn’t mean you have the right to treat them like their irrelevant. Let’s just say we worked hard for our family. Worked on each others flaws and insecurities, all in hope for a better life, together. I will be strong from now on. Strong and firm. Positive and loving. Respectful and supportive. We will survive.
By Donna Rangirangi about a year ago in Fiction
I forgive u.
I asked my sister to leave! All my younger years I admired my oldest sister,(7 years older than me). Would do anything for her, loved her with all my heart. She did grow up with us, she grew up with our grandparents but we were still around each other often. I have four sisters. One older and three younger than me. Me being the second eldest things weren’t all auger and spice , no, I was treated differently no doubt about it. And by everyone. But that was when I was much younger and would probably just be in everyone’s way anyways.
By Donna Rangirangi about a year ago in Humans