Essay #7

Sacrifice and Love:

An Essay on Sacrifice My Parents Have Made

By Inpyo Hong

9th Grade English

Pine Point School

01/05/12

There is a Korean adage that says, “Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.” My parents sacrifice their happiness for my sisters’ and my hapiness. From their support and sacrifice, all of my sisters and I were able to grow up having a robust health and outstanding education. My father and mother sacrificed their time, energy, and health in order to reinforce our family with love and care.

My parents always work hard and endeavor to present my sisters and me a better education, food, and clothes than they have received while they were growing. To begin with, my father forfeits his own desires and sustain us with modest ambition that we need to have a better life than his. Born from a destitute family in South Korean countryside, my father was raised without sufficient support from his mother; his father died when my dad was three years old. Even without enough supply, my dad desired to be educated and successful in the future; this goal was achieved by striving through adversities. Now, he never complains about his job, but he is always ardent to go to his work in the early morning and comeback late at night. Thus, he provides a more comfortable and conducive environment—the advantage that helps us to enhance ourselves. Additionally, my mom always sacrifices to take care of me and help me study for every vacation. Since there is no one who could take care of me whenever I go to New Jersey, she always carries her weak body and flies from South Korea to the Untied States spending approximately twelve hours on an airplane. Even though she never gets abundant amount of sleep because of the time difference, she attempts to do everything such as cooking, driving, and buying all the materials for classes to help me get the best result out from studying at the academy in New Jersey. Therefore, my parents strive to bestow the happiness and love that they did not receive when they were young.

In summation, my father and mother relinquish their own aspiration, and sustain me and my sisters to have a better life. My father sacrifices to provide a more beneficial environment for us. My mother sacrifices to help me studying in New Jersey for every vacation. Hence, my father and mother mirror the Korean proverb: “Sacrificing [their] happiness for the happiness of [us they] love, is by far, the truest type of love.”