What A Year How can one prepare for a pivotal point in their life? The answer is simple: one can’t. With all the reading and researching only one thing is evident: one cannot see the outcome of one’s life exactly as it will happen. When a pivotal point in my life comes around I realise what is important and what is not. I see how meaningless certain things can become and how one thing can affect me.…
I had never been so anxious in my life. Standing in the hallway, I watched as the expressions on people’s faces changed as they stared at the tiny paper. I was only in the sixth grade, but this seemed like the most important moment of my life. This day could end up shaping my future and help me to accomplish my dream, or, do the complete opposite. Today, the grade six, basketball A team had been announced.…
Ever since I can remember I spent almost ever y day at my Grandparents house. They live right down the road from my family and me, and that is how they got the title “Grandma and Grandpa down the road”. They lived in a small house three bedrooms, one bathroom, and a small living room with a fire place that can worm the coldest heart. And in their back yard stood a shed filled with old farm equipment and stray cats with their kittens that I would try to catch every day. They are now both 78 years old and sadly not very healthy. My grandpa was diagnosed with lung cancer in October, and it changed my grandpa’s life, my family’s life, and my life.…
It’s my freshman year in high school, and I must admit, so far high school is even worse than middle school. Despite the fact that I have 1,675 more days to go to finally graduate, being bullied and named called is worse than eating my grandma’s Brussels’ sprout. After middle school, I had hopes that things would get better. I was always the laidback kid that had no friends. I’ve was always considered as the quaint and unusual guy who barely had friends. Despite all that, some days, I was both happy and sad; and I always tried figuring out how that could be. There were some days that it got really bad that I even had suicidal thoughts. I guess I was tired up of all the lonesomeness, the embarrassment, and the fear.…
when i was a child , i did things just like an ordinary children such as wake up in the early morning , go to school , having some fun with friends, etc.…
As a girl who had always hated heights and finding myself fifteen stories in the air, the only thing that came to mind was if I was going to make it off the roller coaster I was riding. Conquering my first roller coaster and overcoming my fear of heights made me realize that I shouldn’t be afraid to take chances in life, but to be brave, because it may just turn out to be the ride of my life.…
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." ( Marry Shelly, Frankenstein) it hits me, there is a sudden warmth that spreads throughout my face. My muscles tense up as if ready for another blow, except I'm not, I never will be. I feel weak as she kicks me again, except this time right in the chest, the air escapes my lungs, now I feel nothing. She's drunk again, I can't stop her, however I can hear talking through the ringing in my ears. Out of the corner of my eye I see a tall woman, she has deep blue eyes along with a caring face, nevertheless she looks uneasy. She turns and glares at my mom. " What do you think you're doing!" She yells "... That is no way to treat your child! are you out of your mind?" My mom, shouts back at the woman as best she can. She can treat me, however she wants, it is none of her business, she explains. Through the tears in my eyes, I look at this strange woman as well as back at my mother. The woman shakes her head, turns,and gets off the train. As soon as she leaves the tears start to cascade off my cheeks. My mom tells me to stop crying and kicks me again. It's never been okay to cry, however sometimes I can't stop myself from crying anyway. There is something about emotion that has always had a way of making my mother more angry. She says something In between the strikes to my side, although I can't seem to understand what it is. Moments later the woman is back, I get a small tinge of hope as I look…
The next 24 hours of my life are crucial. Sometime in those hours, I will learn if I’m dying or not. My heart and my mind are racing at speeds I can’t comprehend and I don’t know how to make it stop, I just want it to stop. I want-no, I need these results.…
Have you never done something in your life that everyone else has done, maybe like skiing, going on a boat, go fishing, falling from a tree, etc.? I have never been on a roller coaster and everyone else has. You can’t really bond with people once they talk about their favorite subject that you haven’t yet done, until you do it. It was May 26, 2017, it was the day I had I have been waiting for.…
One time, I was in great danger. It was last year, when I was 11 years old, at my grandma’s house. Also, it was during the summer time. It was only my grandma, my cousin, Tyler, and I. Her house was in a subdivision in Davison, Michigan. After we were there for about two hours, my cousin and I decided to go outside for a little bit. For a while we played football, but then we decided to go on a bike ride, because we felt really energetic.…
Throughout my life I can definitely say that I have one life-changing event that rises above the rest. In my junior year of high school, 2008, a very close friend of mine, Renay, passed away unexpectedly. At only 16, she fell victim to a drunk driving accident. Renay was a dear friend to me. We had a special friendship and connection we shared through dance and sports. I miss the days when life was simple; we would go to the mall to hangout and shop for shoes. This was one of our favorite things to do together. One year for her birthday, which happened to coincide with spring break, she and her family went down to Rosarito. Three days before her birthday she and her cousin were driving back to their hotel from a restaurant where her cousin was drinking. As they were driving in Rosarito there are very winding roads. Renay’s cousin was speeding and lost control of the vehicle, unfortunately going down a cliff. The morning I got the call saying she was in an accident and didn’t make it was the day my life had changed, I remember falling to the ground in tears thinking is this an awful dream I will eventually wake up from. The answer was no, she was gone and I would never be able to hold or hug her again. Joseph T. O’Connor explains in his article “A view from Mount Ritter” “It’s funny how these memories keep coming back to me as if it were just yesterday”(13). I agree with O’Connor there is not a day that passes by that I do not think of Renay and her tragic loss. My friends and I did so many fundraisers to help her family bring her body back from Rosarito. We were able to help her family tremendously. Her funeral was in Ohio where she was originally from, the car ride up to Ohio from San Diego was quit and sad because we all knew with everything we did to help her family would not bring back our sweet Renay. As a result of the death of my best…
There are many different moments that define someone’s life. The most significant moment might happen when you are 2 years old, or maybe when you are 70. I personally think this moment has yet to surface in my life. With that being said, the most salient moment in my life so far would have to be when I decided to sign up for the football team.…
OK so basically I have decided to tell you about me being a troubled teen. Everybody I am sure has either had some kind of trouble as a teen or been in some kind of trouble as a teen. Well some has been worse than others right. Well mine started off when I was 14. I thought I could do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it and knew everything. Needless to say it didn’t happen that way. When I was 14 I got into a lot of trouble. I didn’t listen to my mom, I would sneak out the house, and I got into a lot of trouble with the police for fighting a lot, and always skipped school. I never hung out with people that did anything good. The people I hung out with where negative. Well one day I went to school and got into a really bad fight and ended up in a juvenile facility over it. I was there for about a month went to court and the judge put me on probation for 3 years. Well I still thought I could do what I wanted to do. So I still kept doing the same behavior I was doing before then. Needless to say I ended up violating probation when I was 15 and they locked me up. I was in a juvenile facility for 3 months then went to court and they put me in a program for 1 year. Well when I got to the program I thought it was going to be easy. But I ended up finding it was actually very difficult. Well after I got out of my program I decided that was something I had never wanted to experience again. So still to this day, and am 21 now, I have not been back in jail or nothing. I have been abiding by the laws and actually I am doing really well for myself. But…
Life itself is a dark and twisted thing. It seems to make many twists and turns that eventually make out a bag of happenings. All of these circumstances make you a wiser person as these events go on. Many people can say one single event that has changed their life forever. Sometimes, some memories become unforgettable which teach you a lesson that becomes the guideline for your life.…
Sometimes in your life, some events happen that becomes an unforgettable memory for you and which teaches you such lesson that becomes one of the basic guideline in your life. The event that I experienced which taught me a valuable lesson happened when I accompany my grandmother went to hospital to operate her eye.…