My life story My life started out pretty good. I had two loving and caring parents, and an older brother named Kevin. When I was growing up, I had a relatively normal infancy to toddler stage. Things began to change the moment my brother was diagnoses with autism. My parents were shocked and I would assume scared because they never expected that to happen and they didn’t quite know what to do. But they never gave up on my brother and the did the research and tried to find ways to help my brother. Of course this did take quite a bit of their time so a lot of my time was spent with my grandma; who at the time lived with us along with my aunt. After a few years I finally started kindergarten, and because my parents wanted the best education …show more content…
It was a new school, and a lot of my good friends were either at another school or a different class from me. I found it hard to make friends with the new people in my class, plus a lot of them knew each other from elementary school. It also didn 't help that the other kids started calling me Joel Mole. It pisses me off just thinking about it. The worst part was, is that the kids that made fun of me were the only ones I could sit with because I didn 't know anyone else, and honestly I 'd rather tolerate that then being alone. But almost every night I would cry myself to sleep. There were points during that time where I contemplated ending it all because I felt alone and honestly felt that if I died no one would miss me. Grade 8 was probably the worst. One of the kids told everyone in the class to not talk to me, I spread lies about how I did something to him. Due to that, I was forced to sit at the back of the class by myself, and do work by myself because no one would work with me. But I also, I was a part of the African drumming club, it was usually the highlight of my week. But, one day after we were done practice I really had to go to the bathroom, just as I was about to enter I heard noises inside, so I thought it was busy and went to the second floor bathroom. The next day, one of my friends was absent from school, and I thought she was sick. Then she was absent another day, and another. It turned out that she …show more content…
Over the summer I decided to be more social and make new friends. On the first day of school I introduced myself to everyone in my first period class. Second week I decided to meet more people in my other class. By the end of grade 9, I knew almost all the guys in my grade. By grade 10 I started talking to girls. In grade 11, I join the football team, and got a little taste of what brotherhood is like. I had guys who, after earning their respect, would always have my back. By grade 12, pretty much most of the school knew me. End of grade 11 and grade 12 is also when I started actually dating and partying. Due to all the partying, my grades slipped a little. In grade 12, I began to do more drugs, and drink more. A lot of why I did it was the stress of the future because in my mind, I didn 't except to get into university, and if I don 't get it how am I going to get a good job. If I don 't have a good job then how will I be able to support myself, and if I can 't even support myself; in the even something happens to my parents, how could I ever hope to help and support my brother. Just thinking about that made me more inclined to find ways to forget about all my stresses; even if it was just for a night. I 've done Molly, shrooms, LSD, weed, acid, prescription drugs, and a lot of alcohol. I remember doing LSD and the next thing I knew; I was in a drag race in the outskirts. I was completely stupid and reckless and I 'm lucky to be alive
When I was younger, I remember feeling as though I lived in a bubble; my life was perfect. I had an extremely caring and compassionate mother, two older siblings to look out for me, a loving grandmother who would bake never ending sweets and more toys than any child could ever realistically play with. But as I grew up my world started to change. My sister developed asthma, my mother became sick with cancer and at the age of five, my disabled brother developed ear tumors and became deaf. As more and more problems were piled upon my single mother’s plate, I, the sweet, quiet, perfectly healthy child, was placed on the back burner. It was not as though my family did not love me; it was just that I was simply, not a priority.
My problems manifested themselves full swing when I was placed in foster care at age 16, in my identity vs. role confusion stage of development. I felt disconnected, isolated and alone. I self-medicated with dysfunctional boyfriends and food. I was torn between two families. Being left by my parents cut and burrowed deep within me and silently leeched away at my self esteem, confidence and worth. Despite my identity crisis, I pulled through and I was able to go to college, a feat none of my siblings has been able to accomplish.
I was called into admin with three managers sitting around. My department just passed the district walk-through a week before, the department was doing great, so I was curious to see what this meeting was about. My boss and bosses boss where sitting down, a lady from human resources was phone conferencing in. Defining moments in my life have helped shape my mindset. More so, it has allowed me to venture in a way to live my life with pure happiness and fulfillment. My defining moment was being let go of my job. I was completely devastated and felt like I was kicked sideways.
6th grade came and my friends and I were split up, and some of my friends were in the same hall as me. I was put into what the students called “the dumb hallway”, some people weren’t as smart as the other kids in a different hallway but, let’s get back on track. Begin called a “dumb kid” started a little of my depression. I didn’t do my homework unless, it was important and I didn’t do my classwork at the best of my ability. I used my phone to read a lot instead of paying attention
Middle school and high school was very difficult for me. I was always categorized as a freak, Goth, or Satan worshiper. I did not wish to be categorized in any of those groups. Over the years I have been turned away by many people. They think that I am a freak and that I will cast a spell on them or something. At lunch time, I would be the kid who sat all the way at the last table. I would sit all the way in one of the corners on the edge of the table. I remember this one time at lunch in 9th grade this girl threw something at me because she did not like my shirt. I cried the whole bus ride home. I did not understand why someone would do that to some one. I did not talk to no one.
A major life event that started me to pursue an education in nursing was my time in basic training. The most life changing event during my induction into the army at ft. Jackson before starting basic training was accepting Christ as my personal lord and savior. When I decided to go into the Army 4 years out of high school I was a student firefighter E.M.T. working towards my paramedic, incidents at the Dept. I worked at both before and after some traumatic emergency responses actually turned me away from practicing any sort of medicine and causing me to seek the military for a new career or to pay for me to go back to school for another career if the military wasn’t my thing. During Basic training as stated above I was already a licensed E.M.T.
Many pivotal moments appear in a human beings life to change the way that individual thinks. All human experiences shape the way a person becomes. The death of my 20 year old second cousin changed my perspective on life. It was not because he was close to me or had a huge impact on my life, but because such a young life ended so suddenly. I got to experience how that impacted and even changed certain people. I came to the realization that all those stories on the news actually happen to real life people. These stories seem so unimaginable, but from that point on, I realized that anything can happen to anyone in the simple blink of an eye. I learned that although every human envisions certain things to occur in their lifetime, many aspects cannot
Life story interview/ project was design for you to get to know a random stranger or a close friends. You would asked general questions about the person life, school, work and family, therefore many will open up to you but a lot of people would not. Before you did the interview you had taken a NIH certification make sure you understand how to do the interview. You had recorded it, transmitted it, coded it and then present it to the class. Once everything was done you learned something new about this person or you may look at their cultural a different way.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
Life Lesson As an underclassman you come into high school either thinking that the next four years of your schooling will be really easy or really stressful. To tell the truth, it can be both, whether you come into high school with a positive or negative attitude. High school is the last place you can get away with some mistakes and try again. The next four years will test your skills and responsibilities.
I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me.
I was a damaging myself in various ways. I was constantly over-working myself I wanted to be part of multiple extracurriculars just so it could look good on my college applications. I had a lot to make up for I didn’t do much during my freshman and sophomore year because I didn 't like the school I was in and I just wasn 't thinking of college at that time. Junior year I worked, interned, volunteered, took a college course and kept my GPA high. I was so stressed that I stayed up to 2 in the morning every night doing work and I had a very unhealthy diet where I wouldn 't eat because I was so stressed. I had breaking point I kept doing all I had to do but I turned to smoking illegal substances or I would illegally drink alcohol. It was a way for me to relieve stress and not think of all the responsibilities I had. I just liked smoking and drinking because it got my mind off of things. I wasn’t doing anything that made me happy like drawing, or swimming I was just really unhealthy. My parents noticed what I was doing and they helped me balance my schedule to do activities that made me happy and weren 't damaging. I stopped working and I started applying for things in the summer that made me happy. I applied for a trip to Uruguay and I ended up traveling out of state that summer. I learned how to not over work myself and if I am working hard for something it should make me happy. Finally I learned
I have a very fulfilling feeling about what I have been able to accomplish in my life so far. I want the absolute best for myself and those close to me. I often go above and beyond to help those around me succeed and be the best version of themselves that they can possibly be.
My education began in fifth grade, my parents moved from one location to another. It wasn’t easy for me, because school was the first place I ever got to interact with other kids. Before school started, I was pretty much kept indoors and not allowed to have contact with other people, except for my family members.
This was it. I was expelled from the school. My life was over. I didn’t care about my other friends who were with me; they all kind of disappeared away from me. All I was thinking of now was myself and the trouble I was in and predicting what will happen when will get home and tell this story to my parents.