Life has a funny way of turning your world upside down. Everything can change in the blink of an eye and never be the same again. People take things for granite but never realize what they have until it is gone. However, I first handedly have experienced what it is like to almost lose the most important thing in my life.
October, 1, 2014, was the day that my life took a drastic turn. I specifically remember that it was unbearably cool that day. Kingston, my brother, and I had just arrived home from school. I noticed something was off, because like every other five year old he would race to his room to play with his toys. Me, being the fourteen year older sister, was concerned. “What’s wrong”, I questioned him. But, he did not respond. I had asked him again, but the same response. He slowly lifted his head to where his gaze met mine and that was when I noticed his first symptom. His left eye was crossed and it looked as if he was trying to see his nose. “Are you trying to see if there is something on your nose?” I asked him. He shook his head and continued to walk to his room with his back hunched and shoulders slumped. I had shrugged it off as if it was nothing. Later that day, I noticed something else strange for the second time that day. He continuously kept rubbing his left eye, and I mean vigorously rubbing as If something were biting his eyeball. I immediately went to tell my mom and she checked it out. “He is fine”, she assured me “I think he is just really sleep.” She
Sometimes in life, growing up can in fact be difficult. We must face challenges that can sometimes be difficult to overcome, we have to persevere, and overcome the obstacles we have, however when you are born with special needs like Autism, it can be harder to overcome these obstacles. Living in the same household with my brother, Declan O’Neill, who since a young age has had to deal with Autism. Which makes things that is easy for us to do, like talking to people, and socializing, more difficult for him because he is afraid he will be judged.
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Throughout my life I have discovered that life can change in instances that I refer to as moments of impact. Recently many moments of impacts have affected my life. There are small day to day little moments that bring me joy and there are big life-changing moments such as building a house for a homeless family in Mexico last summer. The most recent moment of impact that still affects me on a daily basis is my family 's latest addition of new family members. On a very sunny day in May, we rescued two pyrenees mixes and named them Theo and Zara.
from then on my path was set. I had made my decision, I would run. Throughout my childhood I was always the short one. I could not say I was not athletic, but you would not see my making plays and scoring goals. I was always hesitant, worried for all of their safeties, worried for my own safety. Needles to say football was not my sport, but we will come back to that. I played almost every sport I could think of, I played Basketball, I played Baseball, I played Soccer, I played football, and almost every track event that they let me in. sadly, I wasn’t very good at any of them.
Arguably, I am the dumbest smart person I know. One moment, I am on the top of the world leading an organization of more than 800 members; the next, I have my head stuck inside the freezer for 15 minutes in a lost cause to retrieve an ice cream bar. My life is full of ups and downs and I try to do my best, but often events escalate to the worst of scenarios. Looking at it closely, I see that my life resembles a sort of ongoing comedy. I can almost hear the powers that be, laughing hysterically at my follies. While the fates pay me visits, I seek to know why my life is full of laugh track moments.
“We live by hope. We do not always get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way,it will be better and that we can make it so.” Hubert H. Humphrey. I am a true believer that as humans we interpret things completely different from one another no matter how ¨simple¨ a phrase or something may be. I interpret this quote as tomorrow will be better. I guess you can say I am one who tends to live in the future rather than the present. I am Rajveer Sahota and this is a little insight on me.
I have always been fond of trees for as long as I can remember. I love just looking at big trees and am fascinated by their size and strength. The street I grew up on it Detroit was lined with big Elm trees and we would go camping where I loved walking in the forest and climbing trees. When I learned about deforestation I was alarmed at how much of our forests were being cut down at an unsustainable rate. But just like everything else money is the motivator. I just do not want the world to suffer from our greed and am happy there are laws and regulations in place to curve deforestation. The fear is that they are not enough and not every area shares the same concerns. I am not against using trees as a resource, I am against depleting this resource and the effects it will have on the environment. Action must be taken to ensure the survival of our forest’s.
Talking about myself has always been a difficult task for me; however, I have learned it is crucial when trying to connect with people. It seems like there is always something that people can connect over, and if we do not share information about ourselves we will never have the opportunity to make these vital connections. With this being said, there are still times when I draw a blank trying to drum up a fun fact about myself. I hope to give you a better understanding of who I am, where I come from, and why I am here.
Have you ever dreamed to live well? Or Did you know someone who has lived a good life? If so, how can you define the good life? According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the good life can be defined as “a life marked by a high standard of living. In my opinion, the good life can be defined as a way that someone plans to live virtuously by having a great education, enough money, and helping others. In other words, the good life means to me when life looks like a blessing than a burden. This essay aims to provide more than one answers about what makes a good life.
My dad has been there for me throughout all of my endeavors. Even through the hardest of times and he stood by my side. I have been in the legal system since I was in ninth grade. It has been a difficult battle for everyone in my family. It has been especially hard for my father because of financial aid. My father has been trying to quit his job for quite some time but is enable to because he wouldn't have the benefits of insurance for six months after starting that job. We need the insurance to pay for my treatment that has been required throughout all of my probation.
Hunched under a mango tree trying to find shade from the scorching sun as sweat drips from my scalp to my toes, sizzling as it hits the ground. Temperatures increase day by day in the summer I pray for rain to fall, looking at the stray animals on the roads in craving for water. I gaze off into the distance of barren acres of land, touching the dry, cracked soil and seeing lifeless crops perish due to the boiling heat that I was responsible for. As a boy living in the (countryside) rural areas of India in a middle-class household, everyone in the village was taught at a young age to start working. Even though I was the third child out of my four siblings it didn’t prevent my parents from making me work out in the fields. It was tough having to do manual labor like field tasks to feeding and taking care of the animals every day. As the rooster's crow, I wake up immediately and lay out my school uniform and shower, I brush my hair slicked back, put on my shoes and run off to school with my friends. I quit going to school until the 10th grade because back in the day my parents wouldn't care that much about education like today. It was more about harvesting corn in the summer to plant seeds in the winter. When I was around 20 years old my two older siblings got married and my family decided it was my turn. However, my father tried to encourage me to do something in life first and not sit at home and drink or smoke so he opened a pharmacy, that didn't work out so long due to my
It’s strange that some goals in life are created on the spur of the moment! You have become familiar to this situation. You know what the usual scenario will be but this time round; you have made a conscious decision. I will not allow this person to get the better of me! This person has always had the ability of making you lose your emotional equilibrium and now one of the most important goals in your life is - “I am not going to give myself the luxury of getting annoyed or angry with this kind of petty thinking again!”
As a very small child I don’t remember too much, but the things that I do remember were seen through a child’s eyes that has made me the person that I am today and I will always have those memory’s with me until my last breath on this earth. In this essay I intend to show how my childhood and adult life to this point has influenced my life, my journey. By utilizing the adult development theories from this class I also intend on showing how they relate to my Life experiences and where I am today as an Adult student.
The most important event in my life, didn’t even happen to myself, but happened to my older sister, Becky. The reason I am writing about her is because the things that have happened to her and the things she has done in the past have affected me tremendously as well as my family. Her life used to be filled with nothing else but drugs, stealing, and lying. My family has never been the same since then.
This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning was very fun as I grew up living with my mom’s friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get my homework done at school.