One thing that really bothers me is how much I changed. I used to play games all day, not focus on school, wouldn't get in serious trouble, and was very innocent compared to my present day self. There are cons and pros of my past self compared to how I am currently. I am more happy of how I am now then I am before. As time changes, so do I and I can not stop that. What’s done has already been done and can’t be changed so you always have to look towards the future and never the past. The past will not definite who you are today unless you let it. I would have never expect that I would be transferred to a continuation high school in my freshman year. It is a bad thing to many people, but I am thankful that I am sent to it because I will learn …show more content…
I was not in good shape either from constantly being on the computer, so that was not good at all either. I managed to pass my classes, and continued on to my sophomore year in San Gabriel High School. This year, I was more active and focused more on school because I knew games would not help me at all in the future. I joined the All Male Dance team, performed and I played a lot less games and was more alive than ever. I stayed out of trouble, and was doing well but I started to hang with the wrong crowd at the same time as well. It did not affect me as much as I thought it would. I thought it was just being cool and stuff which was completely silly. My junior year came, and I kept my grades up and thought it would be a fun junior year. It was until I got involved with an incident that completely ruined me. Not completely, but took a large toll on my highschool life. I am unable to attend any comprehensive high schools because of my actions and I regret what I did. I can not change it now, but I can only be grateful that I learn from it. I definitely did and will know how to make better decisions in the future. It bothers me that I changed from playing games all day and not worrying about anything to being transferred to another
One event that changed me forever is breaking my back, but it gave me a more positive and thankful perspective of the world that will influence my decisions for the rest of my life. This event made me realize how lucky I am and how much worse the situation could have been.
During Junior High I had many absolutely dire problems that were constantly on my mind. My out-of-date wardrobe continuously embarrassed me. My hair would not acquiesce to any attempted hairstyle. My parents didn't understand me, my teachers were all picking on me, and nobody really liked me for me. These beliefs were all false, of course. At the time, it never occurred to me that all my concerns and volatile emotions were "normal". I never considered that while I was going through the transition from elementary school to high school, from kid to teen, that I was creating my own world-view and that I was emotionally vulnerable to every imagined slight. There was one event, though, that made me aware of the fragile structure of my self-esteem and how much I craved the acceptance of my peers. One of my friends committed suicide.
The story about I Martranika Gross, called changing my life. It all begin with many ideals that I had in mind to become while changing my life so my daughter will fix in. First was continue my education at Strayer University and a journey to follow. Next, becoming a role model with a pathway lay out for my daughter, a showing her not to stay you can’t to become successful. Finally, overcome obstacles first you have to have faith within yourself, and the key word is knowledge.
I grew up in a remote small village in southern China with my two sisters. Both of my parents are uneducated, raising three of us was not an easy duty. Money has always been tight, I can still remember those days we were struggling for food. The desire of food was our biggest concerns. Schooling never was the top priority to any of us, no one care much about education.
The one person who has influenced my life the most is my dance teacher from middle school, Mrs Linden. Mrs Linden is the dance teacher at Sunnymead Middle School, and has taught there for many years. She was my dance teacher for all three years that I was there, as she inspired me alot. My life has changed for the better since I met her because she has taught me to fight for what I want and to not give up on something I love which is dance. She believed in me when many did not.
It had been a fairly good week. I received an A on another one of Mr. Jackson’s exams, and completed another week of eighth grade basketball ‘practice’, which in my case consisted of standing against the wall watching the starters run the plays. It was only my first year playing, so I was just enjoying being on the team with my friends. But that weekend was to be unlike most others in my past. I was attending my aunt’s wedding downtown. I was to watch my aunt, who I had known my whole life, and her boyfriend, who I had known for about 3 years, commit to each other the rest of their lives before the audience of people they knew the best. The last wedding I had attended, in 2004, was a very different experience for me. I was younger and knew less about how the world
In the spring of 2013, my family and I moved from Muskego, Wisconsin to Greensboro, North Carolina. This move across half the country has forever changed my life. This move has allowed me to meet people I would otherwise have never met, and those of who have had a great influence over me. Leaving behind the place I knew, and all of my friends had saddened me. However, I have been able to keep in touch with my friends through the Internet, so that part wasn’t as bad. The scariest part was getting used to a new state that was in a different part of the country, and has a bigger population. The cultural difference were also something that I needed to adjust to, as well as new living conditions. Besides the cultural difference, there was the difference
Change. Change is a simple word but its action can pack a big punch. Looking back on to when I was young I have faint blurred memories of my childhood.
Sometimes in life, there will be some challenges or obstacles that come your way, whether you want it to or not, which could ultimately rearrange your thinking and forces you to SSS life decisions. For me, one obstacle that impacted me was in my past which lead me where I am now. I had to change households which meant I started living with my father, new siblings, and a new school environment. Although starting out it was difficult rebuilding a relationship with him, he truly became a good father figure towards me and gave me life skills in my near future. Overall, I feel like me moving away from what I’ve been used to all my life and making that decision, I can say that it benefited my life tremendously.
A major event that has changed me as a person is my friends. I have a lot of friends and some of them I am very close with. It wasn't always like this though I used to only have one best friend and his name was drake. I was unable to make new friends around 5th and 6th grade because I was too shy and not comfortable. Now In my junior year in high school, I feel like I have never been so involved with my friends and have so many to hang out with.
As a child, I was reckless and I didn’t really care if I was doing something that would get me into serious trouble. I wouldn’t care what my mother would tell me after she found out the stuff that I’ve done. I wouldn’t care about what anyone would say because as long as I was having fun at doing these things then I would keep doing them anyways. But there were events in my life that cause me to change my ways for good.
I have positive attributes and weaknesses as everyone else does. However, since I came from Peru to America, I experienced many changes in my personality from a shy girl to an independent, outgoing and friendly teenager. My strongest personal attributes are generosity, my spirit of collaboration and my perseverance to achieve any goals and overcome obstacles in my life. For example, when I was in Peru I used to go to a hospital to help children with disabilities. I used to visit them very often. I played with them so that they could forget for a while about their sickness. At the time I could make them happy and they enjoyed a nice moment getting to know me. By helping them, I felt a great satisfaction with myself.
My parents sensed my troubles and we moved. Adjusting to a new high school took time. It was not easy making new friends and I continued to be lost. These incidents weighed heavily on my mind. My anguished heart refused to see beyond my own woes. A recent disturbing incident changed my purview of life.
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
Over the course of two and a half years from 9th grade I continued to do what I always did my whole life, sat next to friends whether they were distracting or not, played video games, went out with friends, played sports, went to my local gym, and not studying intensely for tests and quizzes as I had always done in the past and aced them with ease. My closest friends knew me for my phenomenal reputation for being an all A student, but within my first