Hardship, good times, different experiences and adventures is what makes a person who they are. Any life can be compared to any object, moral, story, or everything else in the world. Sidewalks and people comparisons always have stuck out. Sidewalks seem to serve the same purpose as the road it sits beside and works just as well. Both lay out paths of ease in front of you. Both guide you in the direction of your destination, no matter where that is. People and sidewalks can be similar in the way they are made, their foundation, surroundings, and background. Both can tell incredible and unforgettable stories and tales. All you have to do is listen. No sidewalk is clean cut, shiny, or perfect. No human is perfect. Surroundings tell a tale that …show more content…
You may come out bigger and better after a setback, but that can’t keep you from taking a detour. Those pathways leading from the main course is what represents those time where I was tired of normal and basic. I wanted to go and experience new things. I proved everyone wrong by making my high school basketball team. They said I couldn't do it. Even though that was a positive experience, not all experiences were great. Some were good, some were great, and some, not so much. Some I am not proud of, while others I can boast about. There is always regrets, and there is always going to be more. That’s life. It happen. Throughout my life, I have had more detours and roadblocks than I would like to have. I cannot change it, but I can learn from my mistakes. I can learn from both the good, great, and bad experiences that have occurred in my life. No matter what happens in life, you're going to have good and bad experiences, there is always going to be detours and roadblocks and pathways to try and get in your way. My personal choice was to take advantage of my ideas, good or bad, and take them head on and see what life throws at me along the …show more content…
It all depends on if you're proud of your past or not. Any sidewalk with grass in between the gaps reminds me of either small issues or speed bumps, or good deeds. It’s all in how you view the obstacles in your and how you tackle them. The grass in my case is seen as family holding me together. Even as annoying, aggravating, or mean they are, they have always been there for me and held me together. Through all of my social and emotional problems in my life, they kept me from breaking down and losing it all. They kept me going. They kept me on the right path that gives me the best opportunity. They kept me sane. They keep my head high and my worries behind me. They give me a sense of
Life can always change direction. We can have certain obstacles that challenge us. Sometimes this makes us stronger and we can always learn through these times. We always have
Finally the speaker realizes that his hopes of coming back are foolish and will most likely not happen. Getting back to the path will be too difficult because “one way leads on to way” (14). The roads are all connected just like making one decision leads to making another and eventually it will be too difficult to find your way back to the beginning. It is exactly like deciding which college to attend. Once you find a school there is always that skepticism if you made the right choice or not but thinking “I can always transfer” helps cope with the decision. Once freshman year has passed the reality of transferring is a lot more complicated and it would seem impossible to start all over again.
This was one of the main aspects that brought me to this crossroad that I am at now and that I faced at the beginning of my college career. When I decided to go to college I wanted to be a doctor, so that is how I started out. Looking at the challenges ahead of me on that path I did some research and decided to change paths and pursue a career in Health Services. In health services I can still help people the way I like and it also fits into my plan for myself. With what makes me myself I look at the crossroad I am at now and all I think to do is to keep moving forward and straight. Looking back is a different me and going left or right provides many new challenges, so forward is my only option. Even though I will run into many other crossroads and challenges on my current path, I feel the way I am put together I can overcome anything that comes my
Lessons can be learned from the littlest of experiences. Important life lessons can be taken from not only success, but also our greatest failures. Adversity can greatly alter our perspective and provide an individual with wisdom. The first time I was faced with adversity was when I broke my tibia and fibula. I was involved in sports and this was definitely a setback, to say the least. Moments after the accident, I realized that the months of recovery I would have to toil. I realized these future and upcoming months would require patience and I would undergo great amounts of drudgery.
...e, I struggled to get stronger to go on pointe, but in the end, my reward was actually being able to dance on the ends of my toes without getting injured. Also, I had to focus hard in school while missing the fun with friends, but my grades stayed high and it made school easier. At the time, I was not feeling very wise like Mr. Worldly Wiseman, but I soon learning that it also taught me to be patient. In all of my experiences in my own life, I learned to be more patient with myself and realized how much easier it will be to reach my life goal with new experiences. Even though I have not yet met my life goal, I still learn through my experiences just as Christian learned from his experiences going to the Celestial City.
...In conclusion, learn from your mistakes, remember what talents got you where you are today and success will eventually come along the way.
And if it is true that the lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success then I am right. This is where my path to success really begins. It is never late to start again. Small things that aren’t so small can have a big repercussion in someone's life. We as human beings need to learn how to be more loving, respectful and compassionate. I am so proud to be who I am today because of this past experiences. I believe almost everybody has had a time in their lives in which they failed, nobody is perfect. Failure indeed can be fundamental to later success, but the expectations of success are not what people think, at least for me, but I certainly know I'm not
“Progress looks like a bunch of failures and you 're going to have feelings about that because it’s sad but you can’t fall apart. And then one day , you will succeed.” (Grey’s Anatomy) It is the law of life that significant events will occur throughout a human’s existence on Earth. We exist, survive, and thrive because we are able to change. With that in mind, I am grateful for all the opportunities that have and continue to be given to me despite my past failures,lack of inspiration and confidence.
In conclusion, there is always some kind of outcome of things that you do. No matter what happened to where you were going in life, something good can eventually be made out of it. You may have a lot of changes throughout your life that influence the way that you want to remember your memories. If you were to write something to someone when they feel one way about you and they are constantly reminded of your love for someone can make a change in your feelings for one another. Sometimes you fail to understand what is really happening in your life and you need to unclutter all your problems.
Failure is apart of life, it can make or break a person. When a person experiences a type of failure it is now up to them to see how they respond. They can choose the high road, and become a stronger person for it. Then they can choose the low road, the easy way out. The easy way out is never a good choice. It can lead only to destruction. The high road is the right choice to take when responding to failure. It will lead down a path of success. Jessica Lahey’s article, “When Success Leads to Failure” is an article that shows how kids are experiencing failure. Lahey says that, “these kids have a fear for failure, and that they have given up natural loves for learning. They are scared of not being successful”(Lahey). The truth is life is hard there will be failure. There is nothing in this world that comes easy to anyone.
The two neighborhoods that I chose to use for this assignment are vastly different. The main reason is because they are on opposite sides of the country. The first neighborhood that I visited is the one that I grew up in. This neighborhood is in Connecticut, on the East Coast, all the way across the country from the neighborhood that I currently live in here in West Hollywood. Most of my family lives in Connecticut and Massachusetts and I’m the only one who lives on the West Coast. A big difference is that the neighborhood in Connecticut has houses that are more spaced out, have larger lawns, and very many more trees. There are very few apartments there, unlike where I live now where my entire street is almost all apartment buildings.
At this moment I challenged myself to always be better than the year I was before. I knew that to finish stronger and become a true champion you have to work when nobody is watching. I had to push myself to be better than I ever was before, my goal was to always move forward never backward. I went to the golf course and played a lot over that summer. I really focused on course management and the mental part of this difficult game. I felt very comfortable with my swing starting the next season firing scores in the mid eighty's. I qualified for Mid-Penns, Districts, and Regionals that year! I was named our most improved player on my team that year. The emotions I felt after this very successful season made me hungry for this feeling. I had to continue to use my failure from freshman year to continue to become a better player today. I have taken this experience and apply it to the way I approach everything I do. I want to work to be the best at something, I know what is needed to achieve this type of success. Failure can have a really positive outcome if the individual uses it as motivation to become better and achieve greater things than they have
We all have those days where we feel so hopeless or unable to do anything right. We have all felt that we couldn’t finish school or other life challenges. We question everything about life, that’s what happened with me. I had never had a normal life and now it takes a turn for the worse. I grew up under the circumstances that forced me to become more responsible and mature, which has enabled me to succeed later in life.
A recent failure that has changed how I go about my daily life is one that many college freshman experience in their first year. In high school I was a very good student, but I did not have to put in a lot of effort to get the grades that I wanted. I would joke with my friends and say that high school taught me how to put in the least amount of effort, and still get the maximum result. All of my teachers told me, as they did every student, that college was going to be different and if you do not put in more effort it would be very difficult. I knew this coming into school, but I am not sure if part of me wanted to prove people wrong, or if I actually was just adjusting to college life. I did not study as much as I should of, and as a result my grades suffered. Luckily I did not completely ruin my grade point average, but since first semester I have completely changed my study habits. This has taught a much needed lesson about hard work, and I am determined to never again fail at my studies. I am the kind of person that learns a lot from failures. My dad has always told me it is ok to make a mistake, but never make the same mistake twice. This I a motto that I live by.
Those obstacles have made me a stronger person than I was before and I am thankful for them. I also have God to thank because without him, I wouldn 't have made it through these past four years. He was with me the entire journey, even in the moments where it seemed like he wasn 't. With college I will further my computer career making more successful in the field I enjoy doing. The gateway to a good future is college and that is why I plan on going to college. College is the most important goal of my life. It is the goal that I mostly focused on throughout my entire career. This year is the most important year of my life: it is the turning point of my life. The way I act, what I do, the classes I take. Everything matters. My future is before me and I am not sure if I can walk the road which I plan. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "Life is a journey, not a