Sometimes things happen in people’s lives that affect them forever. My family was personally effected by a tragedy in our family that rocked our world for several months. Many say that a tragedy is only considered a death in the family, or a house fire, or something to that nature. I consider a tragedy to be anything that alters a person from going about his day-to-day life. My grandparent’s life savings was stolen right out of their home. That is something that shocked my family beyond believe and disgusted us that someone could be that greedy. The police prepared of for what was to come right after it happened. During the investigation was scary and we waited anxiously for answers. After the investigation was over, my family had a burden taken off our shoulders, but this event will forever effect our family.
I remember July 3, 2013 like it was yesterday. We had a big 4th of July celebration planned for the next day. I was at a friend’s house when my mom called to tell me that Pop paw and Granny’s house had been broken in to. I was in total disbelief and just sat silently on the other end of the phone. She asked if my friend would allow me to stay another night because
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My family never thought that an event such as a robbery would happen to us. Someone that use to be one of us had so much greed that he took my grandparent’s life savings. It altered our lives for several months after and continues to give me a sick feeling in my stomach when I stop and think about it. I remember the day the police sat us down and prepared us for what was to come, when the investigation got eerie and nerve racking, and the relief we felt after he was proven guilty. This event has effected my family forever, especially my grandparents, and will continually be brought up in conversation. When someone’s morals leave and greed enters, they will go to any extreme to get what they
As a child I suffered an event that framed my life, a catastrophe that would change my life at least temporarily. This catastrophe changed things all around me, things in my family changed and things at home changed ever since that day. I remember we were all exited, we were going on a family vacation to different regions of Colombia.
Though it may seem impossible, the most seminal moment of my experience came a few months before my birth. My grandmother’s suicide changed my life before it even began. Even though the experience clearly had no direct influence on me emotionally because I never met her and did not understand what happened until many years later, it has led to my strength in and value of empathy. Throughout my entire life I have heard about my grandmother from my mom and many others. Even though she passed away nineteen years ago, her life’s impact and her death’s impact still weigh heavily on the lives of my family, including me even though I never met her.
I made sure the shoelaces on my new “Michael Jordan Pumps” were double knotted. The night before, I even ironed my jersey making sure my last name, Yung, was visible. “Is everyone twelve years old,” I thought to myself as I looked up at my competition towering over me… and my dad. I was on the verge of losing all confidence, I had no answer, my mind only registered an image of giant twelve year olds running me over in the race for a spot on the city league basketball team.
The things that impact you can be bad or good, depending on your situation and how severe they were to you personally. I’ve been through many hardships and great things. Things like, being beaten as a child, raped, enduring racism, placed into the system and taken back out after a year or so, dropped out of college, overall failed at life so far; Went to a job where I worked hard, learned things about life, working hard, and that you can get more out of life if you want it, you can get more, you can be more, that there is an upside to every bad situation, and that other people are just that, real people. These things that have happened to me personally have shaped a lot of my personality and my outlook on life. Things that make you realize that other people go through events and have issues I believe are the things that make you an adult. This event for me was when I was working at EPB and really went through life every day with people of so many different ages and seeing the very real things that trouble them and let them enjoy things. This comradery as well as a want for everyone around you to be better and do better made me realize that everyone is going through the constant struggle I was. It wasn’t anything incredible or anything that made me realize it, but it changes everything on how you look at things and how you take in how other people act. I believe that
It was the week of my daughter’s birthday, when the winds of hurricane Wilma landed close to the area where we lived. My husband was in California, and I was alone
Traumatic events can often shape life moving forward for some. Many of these events are phases in growing up as a teenager or adolescent and learning how to make better decisions. I know personally as a young black male, the road to manhood wasn’t without challenges. Throughout my journey from childhood into manhood I made it through many events that helped mold a better future. Three specific events that had a major impact on my life were being committed to state custody, losing my granny, and being confined in a juvenile detention center.
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
Everyone has a story, a pivotal moment in their life that started to mold them into the person they are today and may even continue to mold you to the person that you will become, I just had mine a little bit earlier than others. When I was three years old my brother became a burn survivor. It may seem too early for me to remember, but I could never forget that day. Since then, I have grown, matured and realized that what my family and I went through has been something of a benefit to be and an experience that has helped me in deciding what I want to do with the rest of my life.
Often in people's lives an event can happen that is forever remembered as one of the most important. Be it a family story, or something that has absolutely nothing to do with the person, the event is deeply engraved in the individual's mind and will always stay with him or her.
A lot of people search through life trying to find something that means something to them, something life changing. I experienced my life-changing event when I was 3 years old. I was in a terrible car accident. Realistically, being 3, I do not really remember what all happened – I remember a few details though, the feeling, the pain, and my parents reactions. Their reactions were crucial in the development of my realization of this life-changing event. All through my life I grew up with this crazy thing that had happened in the past and all I had were my parents’ recollections on the events that occurred. But, youth is just kind of weird like that – you tend to hear more about what you experienced than actually remembering it. My parents really
As I look back into my past, I am amazed at how much I have accomplished over the years. Being abandoned at a young age and continually let down by romantic relationships became such a negative part in my life. Every life event will have a particular stage of development that will either be resolved or become problematic for future development. Erikson emphasized these development stages through his psychosocial theory (BOOK). Each life event will impact my development significantly throughout my lifespan.
and it had impacted my family’s life because one of our family members who was with us for quite some time was now gone. When my grandma passed away
Throughout life we come across many people, some who influence us in negative ways, and those who influence in good ways, often changing our complete outlook on life. For me, it took the struggle of one of my best friends to open my eyes. I only wish it wasn't too late to thank her.
“An Event Which Changed My Life” An Event which changed my life, well when, I think back on my life there’s Many changes for the good and some were bad but, there were some learning experiences that help make me a better person. The events in my life, was dealing with the Birth and The Death of my first daughter. The First, Event was the birth of my first daughter it, was a joyous event in my life.
Everyone has a memorable unforgettable moment in their life time and will charish that momement as long as they live. I am one of those many with a memorable loving moment. I will never forget it and happy to share it with others. It has been one of many favorite moment in my life. That it even open my heart to be happy and always thankful.