Life Experiences Shape Who You Are
Life experiences shape who someone is. It not only shapes how they feel personally about themselves but also shapes what they exude and show to other people.
From a rather young age I've had life experiences to last me a lifetime. Although not that I'm complaining, they say the things that happen to you in the past shape who you are in the present moment. I believe in that, I do. When you go through so many trials and tribulations at once you go through five stages. The first being anger, it feels like a burning rage inside of you and all you want to do is scream in your pillow for days on end. The second is sadness, it makes you feel as though you do not want to wake up and get out of bed the next morning, you feel betrayed, morose, lethargic, you name it. The third is hatred. For some people it's at the person who …show more content…
Questioning why me? It's a stage they I truly believe everyone goes through at some point in their lifetime. Old or young, an extreme issue or something trivial. Either way the issue is important to someone even if it isn't to the next person. For me the hatred lasted a long time, I wanted the person who hurt me to hurt as much as I did. To know what they put me through destroyed who I once was. The thing I learned though was that they didn't care what they did to me, they denied it time and time again and eventually I realized something. I'm never going to get this person to apologize, I'm never going to get them to even attempt to try and make up for what they did, and I can't wallow in sadness about the experience that happened to me. I missed the once fierce and fiery girl who had wit and so much strength. I wanted to be her again but in that moment I was just a shallow shell of her. The next day I decided something. Something profound that honestly saved my life. I decided to forgive this person even though I never got that coveted apology, or even an
From a rather young age I've had life experiences to last me a lifetime. Although not that I'm complaining, they say the things that happen to you in the past shape who you are in the present moment. I believe in that, I do. When you go through so many trials and tribulations at once you go through five stages. The first being anger, it feels like a burning rage inside of you and all you want to do is scream in your pillow for days on end. The second is sadness, it makes you feel as though you do not want to wake up and get out of bed the next morning, you feel betrayed, morose, lethargic, you name it. The third is hatred. For some people it's at the person who …show more content…
Questioning why me? It's a stage they I truly believe everyone goes through at some point in their lifetime. Old or young, an extreme issue or something trivial. Either way the issue is important to someone even if it isn't to the next person. For me the hatred lasted a long time, I wanted the person who hurt me to hurt as much as I did. To know what they put me through destroyed who I once was. The thing I learned though was that they didn't care what they did to me, they denied it time and time again and eventually I realized something. I'm never going to get this person to apologize, I'm never going to get them to even attempt to try and make up for what they did, and I can't wallow in sadness about the experience that happened to me. I missed the once fierce and fiery girl who had wit and so much strength. I wanted to be her again but in that moment I was just a shallow shell of her. The next day I decided something. Something profound that honestly saved my life. I decided to forgive this person even though I never got that coveted apology, or even an