a·dop·tion

/əˈdäpSH(ə)n/

noun

1. the action or fact of adopting or being adopted."she gave up her children for adoption"

With the term "Adoption" come alot of things. Thoughts on parents giving up their children perhaps, or more importantly, parents saving their children from a life of hardship. I was adopted when I was eight, now I didn't have a particularly hard life before my adoption. Granted, things weren't always easy. Things were always confusing and changing. As a kid, it's hard to understand what is going on all around you.

Being adopted has taught me a lot of things. The term "given up" is not always applicable to every adoption case. In mine, sure I didn't stay with my birth parents, but as i have gotten older, I realized that they didn't give me up, they just gave me the opportunity to have a better life than what they were capable of giving me. It's been hard, easy, confusing, awful, and wonderful all at the same time. Just because you were removed from one poor situation into a better one, does not mean that everything suddenly becomes rainbows and butterfly's. Life will still give you hell, but it's your choice how you handle it.

Adoption taught me how to handle rejection, love and loss through a variety of ways. The only way I got through the roughest moments were with the help of my family by my side. Throughout all of this, I learned how to love myself, love my circumstances, and embrace every thing that life throws at me. Adoption and adapting should go hand in hand. You go from one life to another. Constantly coping. Being a adoptee has changed me for the better.

So to all the adopted kid's out there, I know what's like to be where you're at this moment, the moment before this, and after the next one. The hard moments will get better, it may take some effort, a lot of sleepless nights, tears and rejoicing, but it will improve. God has a plan