College Admissions Essay: Live Your Life

“Live Your Life” We are never promised the honor to live the next day; we are never guaranteed tomorrow. You can not live regretting your decisions. You must live in the moment or the moment is wasted. The one you love more than words could describe could be gone tomorrow; the reason they are gone could get locked up. Lose focus and look away, what you turned to see can be the last thing you saw before you life flashes before your eyes. Your next breath you take in could be your last. We all realize these things at our own pace; we all have experiences that open our eyes to reality; mine were all crammed into one dramatic week. “Everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn” as said
The highway was a two lane highway with head-on traffic; I had swerved into the other lane of head-on traffic. I immediately swerved back into my lane; that’s when i began to loose control of my top-heavy car. The front end hit the cement that held the guard rail and sent us spinning out of control back into the other lane, putting us right in line with head-on traffic. I turned the wheel to get us out of the spiraling drift; we headed straight off the edge of the highway and over the embankment. The top-heavy car went on two wheels and I felt the car about to begin rolling but to save us from rolling I turned the wheels to jerk us back. Suddenly, we whipped around and started heading straight down the hill for a tree and a long barb wire fence. Feeling as if I could pull the car to a screeching halt by slamming my foot through the floor to the dirt ground beneath, I pushed the break pedal to the floor. Somehow I managed to stop the car right in the narrow place between the hole in the fence and right before the tree. Looked at Jillian and said, “Are you
My card in behind my license.” “Laura, you call them its your car.” “Jillian, please I would but I need to take this call. Have you ever had your heart ripped from the very veins that pump the blood that keeps you alive? Have you ever felt like your world just come crashing down on your head and there is no hope of picking up the pieces? Well, that just happened to me. Please, just call them for me.” Jillian at a loss for words began to dial the number. I called Savannah-Kay back, with each ring i felt my heart drop further and stomach creep further up my throat. When she answered I couldn’t manage to utter a single word. She couldn’t fathom how i felt and began to tell me the story because she knew that was why I had called