Essay About The Most Important Moment In Life

Looking back at the most important moments in my life, that night when I graduated high school was a glorious time, to which I felt like the luckiest man alive. It had been a lifetime awaiting this monumental occasion, and I made sure to reserve it as an important achievement in my life that I could go back to while facing a strenuous situation. At last, when I rose to the stage against a crowd of lights, and students clapping at this event, I knew it would have a lasting impact on my future. For the first time, I felt like I was in heaven through this defining moment, and all beliefs about my ability to reach long term goals came true. It’s fond memories like this that inspire me to move closer towards my goals with bravery and self-confidence on behalf of completing this milestone.

The power of graduating high school is very strong. It was not only a surprise to myself, but my family as well. At some points, my fate in walking the stage was questionable by scoring low on various critical tests during my senior year, and my family wasn’t taking it lightly, particularly my father, demanding that I at least come home with passing grades. To gain some insight on how my parents reacted to uncertainty about their son graduating, the chapter, A Breakthrough, from, Breaking Through, provides an excellent example. Plain and simple, my dad has an explosive temper, and after discovering unsatisfactory grades the school’s online grade book, he responded in a fashion similar to Papa’s backfire at Panchito when he proposed to leave home for college, and his dad slapped him across the face. I sat down at the dinner table with both of my hispanic parents, and in regards to Panchito, I had a comparable interaction with them by asking my paren...

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...eremony, I was able to channel that energy into searching for employment offers on Craigslist, and used my high school diploma to meet the job qualifications. In the end, I started working that week, and I would build a lot of character from this job in the future.

It has been exciting to relive one of the most important moments of my past through this writing assignment. As I defeated criticism when crossing the graduation stage, full of power and joy, I also produced a moment that I can reflect back on for the rest of my life. After the graduation, I would benefit from rush that comes along when achieving a lifelong goal, and that momentum would propel me into quickly finding a job. This moment is an ideal because it was a chain of events that resulted in the ultimate achievement, linked together through hard work and rewards each step of the way.