irrationally. My friends would always do things with spontaneity while I would get left behind sitting alone shrouded by my fear. As life gradually moved on‚ I grew to overcome my fears and not overanalyze situations with the help of a few moments in my life. One event I remember with startling clarity was when I was seven. Like many children‚ my brother and cousins loved to ride roller coasters and enjoyed the thrill that accompanied it. However‚ I never relished the execrable feeling of my
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9/15/2012 English 1180 Narrative Essay: Moment I knew I was happy Being happy is one of the greatest emotions to express. It is sad how some people in this world do not experience happy moments in their life. Like someone who has depression‚ someone who is homeless with no money‚ and all the starving children around the world. Greed is a black hole for happiness. You can never fill‚ that’s why you should be happy with what you have. My happiest moment was when I met my girlfriend Marcelina this year. I’m
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won’t come‚ my heart pounding. I don’t know what time it is and for a minute I don’t know where I am‚ I’m still trapped in whatever hellscape I was in. It takes me another minute to realise that I am home in my bed‚ and another minute to calm my racing heart and even out my breathing. In and out‚ in and out‚ over and over again until I’ve calmed down. At this point I’m too exhausted to go to find my parents so I settle for trying to sleep‚ even though exhaustion claws at the back of my throat I can’t
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that my parents would handle anything. I was the youngest in the family‚ the “porcelain doll” that no one could touch. I was doing things not because I wanted to but because I felt I needed too. Part of my struggle was that I believed that my thoughts and ideas were too fragile for the harshness of the world and refused to let them see the light of day. Everyone around me was evolving; they were finding the thing that made them “them”. My sister had law school‚ my cousin had music and all my friends
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My Happy Husband In life‚ sometimes we meet new people who could change our lives for better or worse. I met my husband in the place that I work and since that day we have become the most inseparable friends in the world. I believed my husband is one of the happiest men alive: he is funny‚ positive‚ inspiring‚ spiritual‚ and friendly. He is a very funny person. All the time he has a positive attitude. He inspired me to be the best. He is a spiritual man. He is a friendly person. All these
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Like many before me one of my most defining moments came from my high school days when I was still attempting to find a balance between getting good grades and maintaining a social life. During that time‚ I was just entering a period where I had dealt with bullying without standing up for myself in school. As a result‚ I entered high school somewhat embittered but also made it intentionally difficult for others to get close to me since many of the people I had once held close to me had turned on
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The hands that I look down upon can’t be mine‚ why because they’re covered in blood. But they must be‚ I also taste the blood on my lips every time I breathe. I can’t feel my face‚ all I feel is the adrenaline rushing through me. The blood‚ the adrenaline‚ and the metallic taste‚ all mixed together is too much. I start running to my mom. I can’t yell because if I do the blood will get in and the taste will remind me of how hurt I am. How could such a childhood experience end in blood and a broken
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transformational moment in Daigo’s life would be when he had to give up playing the cello‚ to finding a new job. His wife was very supportive of him when he told her that he had to find a new job. She didn’t get upset with him when he was in the process of starting a new career. A symbolic object that showed this is the salmon trying to swim upstream‚ but end up dying. This showed a sense of rebirth in Daigo because he has to give up playing an instrument that he has dedicated his whole life to. The fish
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Three Keys to a happy life Everyone wants to live a happy life. But where does happiness come from? Buddha said "Life is a creation of the mind." Shakespeare put it this way when he said "There is nothing good or bad‚ but thinking makes it so." Therefore‚ the first key or the most important key to a happy life I would say is Positive Thinking. Maybe all of us have heard of this famous question: is the glass half-full or half-empty? An optimist observes what is in the glass – the full half‚ because
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Sonnet Essay Preparation Poetry is the flamboyant description of life and love‚ in where every poem uses techniques to portray the emotions and feeling of the story. They can describe the ultimatum or the pinnacle of somebody’s life‚ to the horror and the hopelessness of life at the lowest. Many people over history have used poems to describe moments in their life‚ from heartbreaking love‚ to utmost disgust‚ to true happiness in their life. Love‚ hate‚ sympathy‚ fear‚ and disgust are strong emotions
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