I have been through so many things in my life and I have made many bad decisions. The best thing with making wrong decisions are learning from them. One of the worst decisions in my life was dropping out of college when I was younger. One day I’m hoping to show people no matter how old your are or what your have been through, you can still go back to school and help people but it first starts with yourself. Deciding to go back to school was hard, but I wanted to make a difference in someone’s life. When I was in high school there was a mess up and I was not about to graduate. I found out at the end of my senior year that I was one class short of graduating. My junior year, I went to another school, then the beginning of my senior year I went back to the original school I grew up at. Come to find out, the other school …show more content…
I woke up one day and the top part of my left arm was purple and the bottom part of it had red blotches all over it. I was already seeing a specialist for my arm. So I had called the doctor and he said he wanted to see me that day. When I went in he said “I wasn’t getting any circulation to the bottom part of my arm and my hand and that I needed surgery right away or I was going to lose my arm.” I went in on a Tuesday he had me in for surgery that Friday. The same day I went to the doctor to be released back to work. I had received a letter telling me that I was fired. I called the human resource department and the gentleman I spoke with told me that he didn’t know why I got fired, and that he hadn’t had a chance to go over everything. The following week I called back up and got the same response from him. This happened in September of 2013 and I had just recently found out why I was fired. I was told that I was fired because I had taken a bit out of something before I paid for it. They had me on camera paying for it, but just because I had taken a bit out of it first, they let me
Everything I dreamed about for my senior year was taken from me the day that I moved. When I left my old school I not only said goodbye to my friends, but I also said goodbye to an easy senior year. At my new school I am just another body. No one knows who I am. I talk to everyone I meet, trying to make conversation, but yet I still eat alone in the cafeteria every day, listening to everyone laugh while I try to hold back my tears.
“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse,” wisely summates Lucius Annaeus Seneca 1st century Roman philosopher (qtd. in ThinkExist.com Quotations). Effectively illustrating this idea as a concise confessional, the short story, “I Stand Here Ironing,” is written in an autobiographical style by Tillie Olsen, contrasting the festering damage that unresolved internal remorse creates with the reassuring serenity that unconditional acceptance generates. Regretfully, this stark reality often becomes the harrowing plight of the nescient parent. That having been said, taking a closer look into Olsen’s story will undeniably prove that a conflicting introspective battle between regret and contentment can only be resolved through the emancipation of unconditional acceptance.
Alfred A. Montapert writes that “Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices”. In life, each and every action or decision that a person makes has a consequence, it may be a good one or it could be a bad one, it is either fate or it is the result of rash actions or decisions. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, prince Escalus remarks “All are punish’d” to the feud between the Montague and Capulet’s household. In KC Dyer’s novel, Seeds of Time, the protagonist Darrell Connor demonstrates actions that are similar to Juliet Capulet, as they both put themselves and the people close to them in danger just to satisfy their own curiosity and selfishness. Although Darrell Connor’s love for her friends exists in the novel, her mistakes of making rash actions and decisions have affected her and her friends’ lives by refusing to reveal the power of the glyphs, led her friends into a situation where they will disappear forever, and trap her friends in time.
I started high school with a broken heart. My father died when I was 13, not long before I started high school. I worked hard in school not only for him, but because working hard is who I am. He taught me that if you want something you have to go out and get it yourself and what I wanted to do was go to college. I have put myself through a lot in just this past year alone, applying for scholarships nonstop and earning my license so I can finally get a job. I want to be a successful, responsible person so I can make my father, wherever he is, proud of how far I was able to come after he was gone. Yes I’ve gone through a tragedy, but I’ve let it motivate me in a positive way, pushing me to be the best I can be.
I would like to open with a quote from Charles Swindoll. It reads, “life is 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react to it.” I am a firm believer of this statement because there will always be things out of your control, but your reaction will always be up to you. As for the positive experiences, those are the ones you cherish most, but the negatives are what teach you the most. After listening to my speech, I want you to understand how both the positive and negative experiences in my life have benefitted me. I was able to develop significant skills and relationships through the major events in my life.
Coming out of my senior high school was one of the most difficult tasks I 've been given up to this point in my life. I was overwhelmed, excited, sad, busy, and uncertain of the near impending future. The past 13 years of my life I had been studying, practicing, playing, and working my way towards a brighter future. I could see the future in front of me, it was as if I could reach out and touch it. It was almost like getting a shot at the doctors, I knew it was what was best for me but I was terrified anyway. But I pushed aside my fears and on August 8, 2015, I set foot on a college campus, my home for the next four years. I knew why I was there though; I came to college in order to channel the love I have for my country into the motivation necessary to take the next step up the ladder towards a constitutional law degree, a degree I’ll use to protect this country and the people who reside in it. But to truly understand why I came to college, I have to start at the beginning.
Be determined! Our yesterday mistakes do not determine tomorrow's future. The goal of my story, even my trial and tribulations, is to reach out to those young teens with babies that feel there is no chance of moving forward in high school and college. The book is to not only reach out to young teens but young ladies who need a little advice from a woman who was once in a place where I had a problem with identity and self-esteem. A young lady who knew she had a dream to go to college and wanted to overcome the average living of excuses. Excuses used from the majority of those who were in my circle because they made mistakes. I was not going to let my mitakes hold me back. It was hard and I knew it was going to be hard, but I was up for the journey.
I’ve learned that there are people who have been in the same situation that I’ve been in but that they never taken out of their situation. Seeing mothers, fathers, and children suffer physically, mentally, and financially. Ron was right, there are people suffering and I wanted and still want to help everyone I possibly can. I’ve found myself to gravity more towards kids, like kids in the system or up for adoption; even more than that I want to help older kids because they 're the one who are left behind because they 're no longer babies. I have a deeper understanding with older kid up for adoption because they usually feel left behind and with my father never being in my life I understand how it feels to be left, I was lucky that my mother kept me even though she could have given me up for adoption and my uncle Ron became my biggest role model. In the future, I basically want to build my own orphanage, but I want it to be a care center not just for kids up for adoption, or kids in the system with bad records but for adults who are just down on their luck and they need
the knowledge about actions that are preventing you from achieving your desired state. Knowing those bad actions (or bad choices) you have been taking as well as still are taking, will arm you with the right knowledge about the dreadful consequences such bad choices entail. Being aware of each choice you make, especially the bad, negative choices, will motivate you to make good, positive choices in place of the bad, negative ones you have been making so far. So, what you need to do starting right NOW is- track every aspect of your eating (aka nutritional) habits plus your exercising (aka strength/endurance training) habits. You are going to track every single bite, every single gulp your take without fail. At the same time, you will track
According to Emily Underwood, from sciencemag.org, “a growing body of evidence suggests that, in general, teens specifically struggle to keep their cool in social situations” (Underwood). Teenagers are known to struggle when struck with a sudden, urgent problem. They have trouble staying calm, cool, and collected. This is why they may come across so impulsive. Additionally, their brains are not fully developed to make quick, intelligent decisions. So, they do not have the brain power to fully understand the consequences that their actions might have. Teenagers have trouble making satisfactory decisions because their brains are not fully developed yet.
My life has been full of so many events. I’ve lived through many hard times combatting my anxiety and depression, while having family problems, and trouble with many other areas in my life. School was a daily problem, and a problem that couldn’t really be avoided or fixed. I really hope that the rest of my life goes in this upward climb pattern that I am in right now, although I expect to have my ups and downs, but now I at least know that I am prepared for them.
I hope to be able to instill these values in my son as he grows up to make his own choices. In choosing to return to school after eleven years I hope to improve my own: intellectual wellness by challenging my mind, my emotional wellness by bettering myself, and interpersonal wellness by improving my relationships with the people closest to me. The support from my family and friends has been invaluable in my returning to school. I feel that by making these positive changes I am setting a good example for my son.
I knew that right after high-school, I would be on a new road to life. For me, college wasn’t a choice. Even though it was pushed on me by my family as I grew older, I knew myself that I wanted to be the one to help my family out and I was determined to be successful. I planned to be successful the same way that I did in high-school. By going to college, you will always have your education to fall back on no matter what i...
No matter what problems I had during these four years I’m really glad that I had to go through this experience which taught me so many valuable lessons and helped me experience that feeling that you get by helping other people.
and that 's when I moved to another school. Moving was more like a new beginning for me