People are like clay in the process of being sculpted‚ always changing and never be the same afterwards. We age‚ learn and grow everyday of our lives. Sometimes we experience events that change us in some way and we can look back on that event and recognize a difference before and after that moment. A life-changing experience that greatly contributed to forming the person I am today occurred during a three day confirmation retreat. I was born and raised Catholic‚ so it was expected that I would
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Less than half an hour into the New Year and my only remaining party buddy was the toilet‚ second cubicle on the left. Happy bloody New Year I thought‚ just as I threw up for the fourth time already that night. I was thinking about everything that happened last year and I thought about when my sister got married. I personally hated her fiancé; well actually I’ve always loathed that word fiancé. It makes me think of size eight posh spice look-alikes and huge diamond rings worth more than a small
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At my age‚ few people can genuinely claim that they have had a life-changing experience. And after a morning jog one Saturday morning‚ I became one of these fortunate people. Spending countless weekends in the park down near my house‚ I’ve always enjoyed jogging around the river the most. It’s probably because the river runs through the edge of the park‚ where the old trees act like guards‚ muffling the sounds of the city around them. Or is it because of the woman? The one who always sits at the
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The Mysterious Phone Call It was late one Friday afternoon as my sister and I casually drove down the busy street‚ listening to the current hits on the radio‚ and trying to relax after a hard day at work‚ we could not imagine the news that was going to come our way in just a matter of minutes. I was slumped back lazily‚ my feet sloppily propped up on the black dashboard of my sister’s Suzuki‚ and my eyes beginning to droop as Nickleback flowed out of the car’s speakers. I could see the heat waves
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Have you ever had a moment in your life where you knew nothing will ever be the same again‚ a moment in your life where you realized‚ discovered‚ learned‚ or became something new? Everyone has one of these moments‚ for some more unique than others. Not all life changing moments are bad but like most life changing moments you never know when it’s going to actually happen. My Life changing moment unfortunately was bad with a good outcome. This all began when I was nine years old and my mother sat my
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we make so many decisions each day. What clothes to wear‚ what to eat‚ what we want to do for the day‚ but there are some decisions in life that are life changing‚ that those day-to-day decisions can’t even compare to. Being thirteen‚ I haven’t really been faced with many life changing decisions. That doesn’t mean I haven’t faced any‚though. One decision in my life‚ that had a great affect on me. I had to decide what high school I want to go to. I could either‚ apply for Howell High School’s theatrical
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Life Changing Seminar Spending 3 days with total strangers made a bigger impact on me than I thought it would ever. At the end of sophomore year‚ I was given an opportunity to attend a seminar called Missouri Leadership Seminar (MLS). This seminar was just for one sophomore from schools all across Missouri. The seminar took place at the University of Central Missouri not too far from home‚ but it was a good distance. Going into this seminar I had not an idea to expect. I just thought this was
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My life would have been completely different had my parents chosen to go back to China in 2001. At first‚ my dad came here alone for a job offer‚ and my mom and I came to visit him a year later. However‚ our family’s intended short visit soon became a permanent residence. They chose to stay so that I could have a better education and ultimately‚ a better life. But in order to attain what they initially envisioned when making that life-changing decision‚ they have had to endure numerous hardships
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My Life Changing Trip Imagine standing on a road in a warm humid place in the middle of nowhere. A place where the grass is dry‚ the fields are endless‚ and the smell of dirt stings the inside of your nose as the wind sweeps by. The roads are narrow and lonely. The only visitors that pass are the few people on bikes and the occasional rusty truck that hums as loud as a lawn mower as it carries sugar cane from a nearby farming village. As you look out into the fields‚ water buffalo can be seen in
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time balancing and moving forward on the bike. I was so fixated on what I was doing wrong‚ I did not realize what I was doing right and what I could do to improve on what I had done right. Learning how to ride a bike was one of the most painful‚ life-changing‚ experiences I had ever gone through. I was ten years old‚ still on training wheels. I was still wearing: knee pads‚ helmet; elbow pads; and gloves. At first‚ my dad had
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