Throughout life many if not all people will have experiences that change them in a meaningful way or teach them a valuable lesson that they can keep with them forever.In the year 2015 there were two primary events that had a distinct impact on me as an individual,and changed the way I processed not only life and death, but the way I processed everything.These events took place on valentine's day and October 12th which at first seemed to be normal days until I got a phone call.These phone calls were very unexpected and saddening because they were pertaining to the deaths of two of my grandparents.In this memoir I’ll be discussing what these deaths taught me,how they altered my perspective on life and how short and unpredictable it can be at times, and how they impacted my life.
The first encounter that I had with death in the family was on valentine’s day in 2015 when I had just finished playing in my first large qualifier for volleyball.When I woke up I was excited because I was going to my first big volleyball tournament , and as my day went on everything was going good.During my tournament my dad left to go to the hospital to visit my grandmother because he was told she was not doing well which I did not know about.When my day ended my teammate and I met up with my stepmom and began to leave the dome in st.louis where our tournament was being held.After walking for a little we made it to the car which is when we started heading to the house.While in the car my stepmom
During my life I have had ups and downs, and I have been able to overcome them but I think one that stays in my head and have scars to look back on is when I had my first surgery, not a major one but one that I was too young for.
Sitting here now looking back I am not as devastated as I was then. I think about all the great outcomes of the situation and I can be happy thinking about it. Of course, there are still some parts that make me want to take it back, but who knows what kind of person I would be without this sort of humbling experience. Before I go any further let me go back about two years to the summer before my Junior year of high school.
What has been the most significant experiences in your life which have influenced the person you are today:
Then the day came that I stood before the judge as he sentenced me in 60-days in the
In life we all have something that has changed the way we perceive things. Most things that change a person’s perception happens to be an experience that they have gone thru and learned from. In my case it wasn’t necessarily an experience, it was a dog that changed my perception on life. My mind and heart was opened in a whole new way. I never thought I could love an animal just as much as I loved the people in my life. I always thought it was strange that pet owners loved and treated their pets the same way they treated their children. My perception on dogs or pets in general definitely changed. Throughout this paper you will see why I am a totally different person because of a dog that entered my life.
In modern living, it seems so many of us are at odds with the question “Am I living my life, right?”, with so many thoughts and opinions on our everyday lives, how can one not question their lifestyle. Our current society is living in one of the most opinionated times, with any and everyone’s thoughts and feelings at the touch of our fingers. Life has become so complicated, and messy, and disorganized for so many; with journalists, internet celebrities, and memes persuading the public of some new fad that will truly lead to this overall peace or happiness. This modern way of living is exhausting. We as a people have become obsessed with these ideas of algorithms for happiness, the thought of “if I do this, this, this, and not this, I will truly be happy!”. These “algorithms” seem to range from all organic diets, living off the grid, and simply minimalism, it is overwhelming. Society seems to have always looked for a “miracle pill” to fix these problems. While these many writers and thinkers have many differing opinions and thoughts on what will lead to well-being, most seem to agree that cleanliness or tidiness have a positive impact on one’s well-being.
First and Foremost, I have had many personal experiences throughout the short course of my life, and I’m sure everyone has had a lot of personal experiences to. Some even that are they are life threatening, but there is only one in particular that I would like to share with you.
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.
Everyone has their own stories, meaningful or not it’s their life and their memories. When I been told to wrote a memoir about languages, I could not think about any ideas. My Professor told us that everyone has their own stories and it is interesting, because that is your experience not ours. People like to hear stories, because it’s not their experiences and they want to know what have you been through. Here are little stories about myself.
Adults seeking to complete their undergraduate or graduate degrees bring a unique perspective to the college classroom — life experiences. For many adult students’ life experiences delayed the ability to attend college but valuable learning occurred by having careers, raising families, and traveling. Schooling in the traditional sense is void of knowledge unless academic teachings can be experienced and practiced in real-life (Carroll, 2015). While not all life experiences can be classified as college-level learning, an adult brings a level of maturity to their studies that are not often seen in the traditional college student. The value of experiential learning can be quantified not only in the adult learner but also in those that choose a second career in teaching.
Every person in life must go through changes in their lifetime. Some are drastic changes and some are minor changes, but either way, a person must learn to cope with all of sorts of them. Change can take the best out of someone or it can bring the worst out in someone, for example, going to a new school, getting a new haircut, anything can make a difference in a persons life. In my situation, the most enormous change must have been coming to the United States with my family and trying to adjust to a new lifestyle.
I still remember the day my father left my mom and I . It was a cold rainy Sunday morning my mom and I were screaming begging him to come back. Telling him over and over that we loved him and would that we would do anything for him to stay. But it was too late by the time we got to the end of the driveway he was gone like a ghost in the night. The years after that were some of the worst in my life. I was lost, I was a boy without his father going through my school years I was harassed by my peers day in day out. Elementary school was hell for me I didn 't have any friends I was alone. I would come home with cuts and bruises. When my mom would ask I would make up excuses. I felt like if I told her I would be worrying her too much. I was so happy when my mom told me we were moving. It was a fresh start away from the bullies and the fighting. We were moving to a small little town in the middle of nowhere but I didn’t care as long as I was safe. My mom had gotten a job as a customer service provider. Things were starting to get better. I started doing better in school my grades were looking good. Until kids learned about my father leaving. I don’t know how the kids learned about it. But the bullying started back up again, that 's when I started to lash out. I started fighting back almost everyday or at least try to anyway. I was weak I was a nerd I didn’t play any sports. I was a computer geek. But through all the fighting something good came out of it. I made my first friend.
with me helping people. I spent twenty-five years as a hairdresser, which gave me a lot of
I was born in a small village on a cold and stormy night, which started the anger that I still carry today. I grew up fast in my life and was soon an outcast to society. Kids picked on me, older people looked down on me, I was unable to fit in anywhere in society. I tried to be nice to others, but they were never nice to me. My mom was the only one who truly liked me. My Dad left me after I was born and he grew to hate me also. It is always cold where I live so I believe that the coldness has affected the hearts of everyone I try and get close to.
It was the day I my mother's decreased about 4 decrepitude ago. She decreased from an asthma attack furthermore, it’s not a light of day that I don’t absence my mother. It was tenacious for us when I first realize she had decreased even though I was still youthful and still in the schoolhouse, but I knew my affection was about to constitute due to losing my mom will modify the way I examine the indicate .