My family history has an enormous influence‚ not only on who I am today‚ but also on who I want to become in the future. For the longest time‚ I was unsure what I wanted to do with my life and what I wanted to make a career out of. I changed my major at least 4 times and my frustration grew stronger. One day I decided to lay down and rest because I was so exhausted with the emotional frustration of not knowing what I was going to do with the rest of my life. I had a dream. I saw myself in my very
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can almost see the shore‚ It feels as if I’ve been riding this wave for days. This wave is my hurdle in the ocean that is life‚ choppy at the beginning but slowly passing by. The ocean has many waves‚ one for each surfer to ride‚ my specialty wave happened to be dyslexia. It was in the second grade that my teacher first realized I was different from the other students‚ because I had yet to read my first book. My parents had found this odd as well‚ and took me to see a neurologist‚ who diagnosed me as
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It was almost 5am on July 17‚ 1996‚ when I was rushed to the hospital. I was balled up in the back seat of my mother in laws car‚ biting down on a towel because the pain was so unbearable. I heard him say “it’s ok baby… ” just as another jolt of pain came. As his voice faded I could feel him rubbing my back‚ and I tried my best to listen to his voice and forget the pain. It was impossible though‚ the baby was coming and there was no turning back now. As we arrived at the hospital I was quickly
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you’ll die in a coma.” At just seven years old‚ these were the kinds of warnings I received from my parents. After being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes‚ nothing was the same. Glucose levels‚ insulin dosage‚ shots all over‚ bruised fingers‚ blood everywhere. Reality came crashing down on me as I realized that this disease of mine would burden me for the rest of my life. At least‚ that’s how it seemed in my naïve‚ four-foot world. Eventually‚ I got over that trauma‚ but I am still witnessing the effects
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Drive is something that tons of people have not yet to grasp. The word drive itself is just as powerful as its definition. Having a drive for something means there’s passion in what you’re doing. My drive is to get out of bed every day and be productive. It’s my drive that pushes me to get to work and push myself forward. Having that drive for something isn’t something I would want to let go of either. The problem today is that it’s that it’s hard to have a drive for something since it may take
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On the second day of school during my sophomore year‚ I realized how much Wahlert meant to me. It had become my home‚ the place where I felt like I belonged; school almost even seemed like a break from summer. Over the summer‚ I had become an empty shell and spent my time at the computer wasting the time away; the only interactions I had were with my family‚ and on rare occasion with my best friends‚ when we had sleepovers. To see the people I had missed over the summer was great. All of these things
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As I sit at my computer reading a predetermined list of phrases and words that include things such as “Northwest is best” to simply‚ “squirrels‚” I think about how each word or phrase has meant something to me at one point or another‚ throughout my life. After much thought‚ there are three finalists that resonate with me the most; “grit‚” “vocation‚” and “persistence.” These three words could easily sum up my life in the shortest way possible. The word “grit” brings to mind the idea of a person
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I had no intention of becoming involved in community service. As a high school sophomore‚ I was required to complete five hours of volunteer work in order to join the National Honor Society. I cleaned and organized bookshelves at my local library‚ and that was that. Over the next year‚ I volunteered with school cleaning‚ dance set-up‚ and other events not out of graciousness or compassion‚ but solely to maintain my NHS membership. However‚ as a junior‚ a teacher nominated me for the United Way Youth
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People are always talking about moments. Those split seconds of your life where you feel like nothing can touch you‚ like nothing can go wrong. But no one ever talks about what happens after those moments. When you come hurdling full speed back down to earth‚ and find yourself one again in reality‚ looking dazedly around and trying to figure how for that one moment everything could have been perfect‚ and how it could change so suddenly. I’ve had plenty of moments. And they were everything a moment
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events happen that have no explanation to why or how it happened. It leaves you thinking‚ “why me?” Ever so often ife just wants to wake you up from your slumber and help you learn an important lesson. Even though it might be one of the happiest or most depressing thing that has ever happened to you‚ it helps you learn and grow as a human being. The most unexpected event that happened is when my cousin Ben passed away. Ben‚ who was my cousin‚ was one of my closest friends. In July‚ he had just turned
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