I’m a girl that changed her whole life around to feel better about who I am. Changing the perspective of situations and circumstances to positive makes life much more enjoyable and easier to cope with. Taking the bad things that come to you in life and giving up is just a waste. I have learned that fighting back during hard times shows how strong you really are. Never giving up is the key to success and hard work pays off in the long run. I lost two very important role models to me in 2013 and was not sure how to deal with it and who to look up to now that they were gone. Both my grandma and grandpa passed away in a very sad yet loving way. My grandpa suffered from a broken heart when my grandma passed away and it was hard to see someone I looked up to give up on himself like that. He passed away on the exact date 6 months after my grandma …show more content…
I wanted to change myself into a responsible adult that I knew I was capable of being and start getting myself, and my future together. School was the first big step to take with this responsibility. Ever since middle school my mom would scream at me every morning to wake me up because I could never get up myself and I would miss the bus. To prove my responsibility to my mom I started waking up on my own and showing her I am grown up and could get up on my own if I went away for college or work. I also started getting my grades up to the standards I expected from myself. I did this by setting a goal at the beginning of each quarter and making sure I study, do homework and check up on my grades in each class. Taking drivers education and passing
Changing my lifestyle meant I was ready for a new chapter in my life along with my family and friends; leaving the negativity behind that I was once dragged in. Depression imprinted my life and still does, but much less. I’ve learned how to manage it when I breakdown. It’s part of the learning process. Depression was my failure, but I am thankful for the experience because it has helped me grow out into the person and shape my personality to whom I am
Life has so many amazing things to offer. I tried hard to get where I am at in life. I wanted to give up so many times but why give up when want you’re working for is right at your fingertips. I did extra classes so that I could graduate a year early in high school; it was hard, I wanted to give up so I started d to fail paper. My mom stepped in and told me it’s my education I can do what I want. She said, you are better than a quitter Stormmie, if you want something go for it no matter how hard life gets. All because of my mother showed me she believed that I could keep going, I didn’t give up. I achieved way more than I ever imaged I would in high school. I graduated a year early and got valedictorian in my graduating class. This helps
Large red and blue mats cover the floor. Thin black nets come down from the ceiling and latch onto the ground, separating one court from another. All the noises are blocked out, except the noise from the pounding of my own heart, sounding like a drum, beating rhythmically. I begin to feel shivers up my spine and my Mom seemed to have sensed my nervousness. "No need to be worried, Alyssa. You'll play excellent, just relax", she said with a nice, delicate voice. I take deep breath to regain my focus, and I reply, "Mom, I don't even know these people; I'm certain that they won't let me play by hogging the ball, or I'll just fail overall." I thought this over multiple times due to the fact that I was new to this volleyball team. I was unsure of how well we were going to play together as a team or how well I was going to converse with them.
In what ways are you changing now? I am working on being more positive, being negative is terrible and has no benefit. It has been difficult, but I like to think that I am a more positive person than I once was. What has been the greatest challenge of your life so
My biggest obstacle in life, Learning how to breathe. Now before your mind gets cluttered with assumptions on how ironic that statement might sound I have to take you back. At a young age I wanted to believe I was living a fairy tale, that I was the superhero and no matter what I would always come out on top. I didn't know what it felt like to be beaten or bruised, I didn't know how to cope with all these thoughts running rampant races around my mind. I didn't know because I didn't want to know. Facing the hardships of reality was never my thing, Some might say I had a "glorified" vision of the world. This way thinking was healthy you could see it radiating off of my body changing the atmosphere as I walked in the room. My sun would shine brighter
The remembrance of failure generally has a few phases. Phase one is the recollection of the heart sickening, gut-punching feeling that originally accompanied it, two is a hearty grimace, and three is a bit of a chuckle. At their present time the hardships that I faced my freshman and sophomore years of high school seemed like my own personal armageddon. I criticized my younger self for my obliviousness entering the high school world, but I soon realized that I had a couple of different options under my belt to deal with such things. The first was daydreaming that Doc from Back to the Future would knock on my door and give me the opportunity to tell my freshman self to wake up; the second was to be proactive and learn from my academic malfeasance.
Who knew growing up would be so stressful. No one gave me advice on how to get through the rough times, I had to learn on my own. But nothing has or ever will stop me from achieving my goals. Most of my family didn't finish school, or got the chance to start college, but if I Lizette Mendoza finish high school and college, I would be the third person in the family to do so. I want to be that third person to make my parents proud.
Throughout my elementary school years, I encountered many obstacles, but during my fourth grade career, I experienced some of the most difficult hardships I have ever gone through. I was an extremely loquacious, bright, and well-rounded young girl. My mother; a spontaneous, caring and kind person had recently been engaged to a man named Dennis. Dennis was a unique, creative, and very humorous man. We welcomed him into our petite family and he opened our eyes to some of the most enjoyable moments of our lives. He taught us how to be ourselves and showed us the genuine definition of family. My brother; a friendly, family oriented, and athletic teenager shared a strong relationship with Dennis just as much as I did. We were all so delighted living
A lot of experiences have made me who I am today. Getting my first job made me not only mature but also responsible. In our teenage years we are always looking for new opportunities. Many of us want to know what the real world ahead of us feels like. We want to have our own money, buying things we earned and deserve.
There is a point in everyone’s life when they step back and realize “I can’t do this anymore, it’s ruining my life”. Many of my friends have started smoking cigarettes while drinking at a very young age, and continue to use this drug currently and don’t realize the affect it has on their future. While I have been smart enough to avoid smoking, I haven’t been as wise at making decisions when it comes to drinking. The amount of partying I’ve done in college has taken over my life, and has had a huge impact on my grades. Changing my drinking habits and continuing to avoid cigarettes will enable me to be the best I can be for the rest of my college experience.
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
Dealing with the grief of a loved one is not an easy task. Only time can heal the pain of someone you’re used to be around is suddenly gone. When my uncle passed it was the first experience with death in which I was old enough to understand. Nobody really close to my family had passed away before, so I was unprepared with the pain and sadness that came with it. I also thought about it but I never really thought of something like this happening to me. I wish I had spent more time with my uncle, but I never thought about it because I never thought he would passing away so quickly. This is always why it is good for every day to show your family how much you love and appreciate them because you never know when their last day on earth is.
In my life time, I have experienced many deaths. I have never had anyone that was very close to me die, but I have shed tears over many deaths that I knew traumatically impacted the people that I love. The first death that influenced me was the death of my grandfather. My grandfather passed away when I was very young, so I never really got the chance to know him. My papaw Tom was my mothers dad, and she was very upset after his passing. Seeing my mom get upset caused me to be sad. The second death that influenced my life was the death of my great grandmother. My great grandmother was a very healthy women her whole life. When she was ninety three she had
We finish what we start. This was the motto that kept me going during the strenuous training period for a marathon. But prior to that, I must confess, I wasn’t an athlete. I was never interested in playing sports, except for recreational badminton. During gym class, I would walk three quarters of the time when it time for the dreaded mile run. I preferred staying indoors and sitting on the couch and watch movies. The first time I had heard about a marathon training program, called Dreamfar, in my school, I thought to myself, what kind of crazy person would want to run a marathon? Never did I realize, eight months later, I would be that crazy person.
Since high school, I have definitely put a lot of emphasis on prioritizing what is important to me and working on bettering myself. Throughout high school, I was extremely pessimistic and cynical, and that was something I’ve wanted to change for all my life. After high school, I started going to yoga classes and joined a workout class to help relax and channel my negative energy into positive activities that have really helped. Also, one thing that has changed drastically since high school is my faith. During high school, I felt like I did not have enough time