My Best Experience

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I chose my best experience over my worst experience since it changed me and made me the person I am today. Don’t get me wrong, my worst experience changed me as well. It just didn’t make me the person I am today. Before this experience, I was really unsure of who I was and who I wanted to become. I was still deciding who I wanted to be and what I wanted to do in, and with my life. In a way I was just like Stephanie Sheppard. In the essay Sheppard states “When she was questioned about who she was she could not come up with an answer.” When people asked me who I was I really couldn’t give them a straight answer because I was unsure myself. No matter what you go through in life, good or bad, there will always be people there saying something about what you do. In this paper, I will discuss the best experience in my life so far. This was the best experience in my life so far because I overcame obstacles, did the best I could, and made myself proud. My best experience was when I received my high school diploma. I did not walk across the stage, but I at least received my diploma. To me, t...

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