Someone I Admire

From the time we were little girls me and my big cousin would always play together at Grandma Whitford's farm, making mud pies and going out looking for adventures in the woods. Or we'd go to the lake with the families and we'd run around and swim until we looked like prunes. We were always just like two peas in a pod, you never would have guessed there's a three year difference in age. Now that we are older, I'd come to realize that Michelle is someone I truly, deeply admire.
Life was never easy for Michelle. When she was just a little girl doctors found out that something was mentally wrong with her. Michelle had seizures so she underwent surgery and was put on medication. Things didn't get any worse for awhile, but then the most heartbreaking, unthinkable occurrence happened. Michelle's mother passed away. Her parents were divorced by then and Michelle lived with her mom and her sister and two brothers. After her mom's passing, Michelle had to move in with her dad and adapt to a whole new life without her mom. Now, she's eighteen years old and just had a brain surgery that could possibly change her life for the better. With this surgey it is possible that she can stop needing all the medication and be able to have the intellectual ability to make her own life choices. There is also the possibility that all her motor skills will stop functioning and she will be able to do nothing.
With everything that has happened in Michelle's life she is always cheerful and talkative. She thinks that everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for her. Michelle is one very strong girl and whatever struggles that come to her she fights back to beat them. You'd think that someone with a life like this would be the total opposite of happy, outgoing Michelle. It's for these reasons that I love, respect and admire her.