What do you think the world would be like without imagination? There would be no Iphone,no car ,no light bulb. The world would be useless to anything. The first humans would be eaten within a day. That is why I think imagination is important.…
Throughout the years, billions of individuals have inhabited the Earth, each with their own lives and their own particular choices. With every choice made, these individuals have started to compose their legacy, which is the exemplification of who they are and what they have accomplished. I, like the majority of the rest of the world, am starting to leave a legacy as well, and plan to continue and enhance it along the shining stone path known as my life.…
During my time in Elementary and Jr. High I never really took school seriously. I would go to class, but I’d never really make it a priority until I got into a program called Upward Bound that changed the way I’d look at school forever.…
12 year old would do right after getting home. I would go over to the kitchen and look at the…
My junior year of High School, I was in the musical ‘All Shook Up.’ This was my first time being a supporting lead in a show, and I was ready to work as hard as I could to ensure I was ready to do my best when those curtains flew open on opening night. Rehearsals were going well, memorization was going well, and everybody has a positive outlook on the show at hand. One evening I went to bed, knowing I had rehearsals the next day, and I was eager to arrive and see what that morning rehearsal consisted of. A little after midnight, I woke up…
Does moving to a new place change everything you ever experience? Moving to a whole new descriptive place is like being pop out of your mothers belly again. Especially, when you move to a place where the language, the food, the people, school and everything else is brand new. Those type of situations, shape your way of living in a constructive way that will affect the rest of your lifestyle. That's the same situation that made me have a life change into a whole new story. Almost 15 years ago, my mother had to make a decision that will affect her and affect the love ones around her. An option that will make her leave everything she ever loved and wanted behind forever. The option was to leave her lifestyle, her family and leave a part of her own blood made from her flesh. The own blood was me, leaving me with my grandma so she could had gone to find a job and start a new journey. To have a way to support the her baby and her own family. Departing to the U.S.A when I was only one years old. Until a sudden burdens of death that was going to make my whole story, lifestyle, my whole childhood and the rest of my life changed.…
It seems that I'm running away a lot these days. There always something or someone chasing me…
A year ago today I woke up from an enduring coma, which was due to a bullet hitting my frontal lobe in a mass shooting at a concert in Chicago, and it brought me to a dull country with no opportunity for advancement . I woke up to a dreary hospital room waiting for someone to come in, and I pondered a look around my room which only displayed one machine that kept me alive and a bed. Apparently the government stopped funding hospitals and several other groups because our debt came back to us to bite us in the butt. When the nurse came in she told me my sister will be by to pick me up, and then she ran away before I could ask her any questions. When my sister finally arrived she looked at me with a befuddled face, but later recognized me; however, she kept a robotic face with no expression while looking at me. Only a couple minutes later I was kicked out of my room because the machine to my right cleared me to leave. As I walked out of the building, I noticed everyone wearing drab clothing and a surplus amount of homeless people wandering the streets and coming up to me to get money or food.…
Sometimes, I experience days where I want to move away from everything I am and everything I know. I dream of the day I can start over in a new city, town, or country. I have lived in the same house since I was one years old. Over the course of my life, I have accumulated a large circle of acquaintances from church, work, and school. It never surprises me when I see someone I know in Target. I dwell in a small world, and I want to get out. I want to get out and what else is out there in the world. How many experiences am I missing out on right now because I stay stagnant? How many people have I missed out on knowing because my life only goes as far as the next city over?…
“I am scared.” These are the three words that go through my mind each day. I am scared for my country. I am scared for immigrants. I am scared for Syrians. I am scared for this world. I am scared.…
It all started on a Saturday morning. I used to hate basketball so much, but my dad woke me u saying that I had basket ball the next day. I was so furious but it was morning so I thought i was dreaming. Once I found out it was real and not a nightmare I ignored my dad which only lasted for about 30 minutes. Me being the 6 year old I was I couldn't ignore my parents or hold a grudge for long. My parents drove me to Nike Outlet and got me my basketball shoes and my black and pink elite socks. I have to admit the best part was picking out the shoes. Still to this day I remember them. They were black and pink nike hyper dunks. My dad let me keep the shoes if I went to the practice. I was only 6 so I thought it was unfair but I made the choice to keep them.…
At First I was apprehensive about moving for the gazillionth time. Through my life I was very unsettled moving from place to place. Now I had to move again, Which I felt very fed up with moving repeatedly. My father wanted to move closer to his family, and try to start a better life for us.…
I arrived at practice with my shoes laced, hair pulled back, and the mindset that I was unstoppable. I could play against every member of my team and come out the victor on any given day. It was the first day of practice that week, and challenge matches were scheduled to begin. The team went through our daily shuffle of drills, conditioning, and running to prepare for what was lying ahead. While warming up with my friends, I felt great, talking about homecoming, boys, and a variety of irrelevant events. I felt ready. The odds were in my favor and nobody could stop me.…
Personal reflection is an essential part of learning, learning about theories means absolutely nothing until you can apply it to life in a real way. According to the textbook (2010), the facilitation of human growth and development is a primary purpose of therapeutic practice. Reflecting on learning through your own life is difficult but a key part of becoming a well-rounded counselor and person. The way in which a person develops cognitively, emotionally and socially vary, and understanding the way in which a person came to be who they are today is important for growth and understanding.…
I struggled to come up with a time in my life where I could not be myself. I have had the same job for fourteen years, have been with the same person for more than fourteen years, and have had my friends for longer still. Trying to find a time that I can distinctly remember not being myself I have to go back a long time, probably around eighteen years. The more I thought about it, the more I could only recall freshmen year in high school as being a time where I was living two lives. I attended a high school that not one single person I knew attended, I was on my own. Many of my friends attended the same two high schools and enjoyed the luxury of having something in common with each other. My high school was a specialty school that I choose to attend but none of my friends were able to. The school having different concentrations in different arts almost built a segregated culture. This major spent most of their time away from another major and so on. This built up temporary walls that eventually would come down. However, I think this helped me feel an outsider.…