It was the morning of move in day. I said goodbye to my home and headed out. I passed the local shopping market and my high school where I enjoyed a fun four years. As I headed to Norman I realized I was leaving everything I had ever known. All my life has consisted of living in the same house‚ going to school with the same kids‚ and going to the same supermarkets and restaurants. While I’d like to say I have developed a good idea of the world around me by visiting so many cities around the
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It was during the summer leading up to tenth grade. My best friend at the time was a girl named Kayla. She was the greatest person I had known up to that point in my life. She is one of the first people I spent time with outside of school. We went to go see a movie together‚ which broke me out of my antisocial shell. She also helped me talk to a girl that I liked for three years‚ by being an intermediate for us to spend time together. She made plans for all of us to go to another friend’s house‚
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My mom has multiple sclerosis. Having been diagnosed with the disease almost eighteen years ago‚ my mother has never been healthy in the time that I can remember her. Because of this‚ I have been accustomed to a different childhood than a majority of my friends. There were a lot of things that I didn’t do with my mom as a child that many other families do. We did a lot of traveling when we were younger‚ but we stopped taking trips after I was seven years old. Although my aunt and uncle always stepped
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we volunteer for a certain amount of hours. I would usually volunteer with my troop to work on community gardens and other small tasks similar to that. I did not enjoy volunteering because I was too young. I was forced upon something that I did not want to do. I just wanted to have fun and did not understand the concept of community service. Now that I am done with Girl Scouts‚ I have moved on to a different stage of my life. I now know that volunteering is worth the time and effort. After years of
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At the age of 13‚ shortly after the death of my grandmother‚ I experienced an existential crisis. I pondered the meaning life and at the time the inconsequentialness of our life on the pale blue dot in the vast cosmos. Life seemed pointless when the reality of death constantly loomed. From biology classes I took in high school‚ I learned about microorganisms and there found the answers I had been seeking. The parallels between my life and these organisms were astounding. Although these microorganisms
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A façade on my face that hid a dark‚ a pain and nightmares filled‚ black hole that was killing me in the inside‚ one day just cracked and the demons of self harming and suicide broke loose in my room. I grabbed a sharp object‚ went to the end of my bed‚ slashed my flesh‚ believing the drained red blood released from my body and dropped was the trauma that came from constant family issues and school bullying. I was a vulnerable mouse trying to run away from the pernicious black cat who had me by the
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adversity that has changed my life‚ or in which I succeeded in the face of it. I have had other struggles or problems‚ but they probably don’t compare to other people’s troubles. I am happy to be so lucky to have been born into such a good family. Money has never been a real issue‚ as I come from a pretty good home. My parents made sure I had everything I needed‚ but they were also smart about not always giving me the things I wanted. They were teaching me and my siblings a good life lesson. By making
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miserably at soccer‚ and my experience on the kindergarten basketball team was nothing short of catastrophic. I was far from the avid reader I am today and have needed a tutor in math since I learned how to multiply. It wasn’t that I was particularly bad at all of these things‚ but I used to be so remarkably unambitious that I couldn’t bring myself to commit to anything long enough to become good at it. That was‚ until I was first exposed to the stage. Yes‚ I do realize how cliché this must sound:
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morning of my freshman year‚ and something noteworthy arose in my mind. I don’t know how this thought appeared‚ but I took a step‚ a big‚ courageous step‚ that has changed my life forever. I had always been the girl who follows the crowd and never did anything where I felt I would be judged or made fun of‚ but this overwhelming‚ yet amazing event gave me a different perspective on who I truly was. Next thing‚ I was standing in line to sign up for the girls golf team. It was terrifying; my legs and
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up idolizing left my family for a twenty-year-old girl‚ it left me mentally and emotionally unstable. As many times as my parents told me that their problems were their problems and that they shouldn’t affect me; this affected me. My life before the affair was great and carefree‚ however‚ now I’m not sure that I’ll ever get back there. It is literally as if I lived a different life before the trauma. My mom and dad divorced when I was just a baby. Although I have always loved my real daddy‚ I also
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