A turning point come can at any time. It can determine which road you decide to travel down in your life, the things you accomplish, and the dreams that are reached. You can be faced with a predicament, but you choose how to react. You can either roll with the punches, or decide to get hit. Life is not an easy walk through the park. There will come times when you have to stand up and fight, or times when you should just sit down and let life happen. In my life there have not been a lot of life altering choices. My life has been pretty straight forward, there have never been huge obstacles I have had to overcome. Although, there is one time in my life that has influenced me. When my mom resigned from her job influenced my life for three
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“I’m not quite sure but I will figure it out soon,” she replied.
I brushed it off and didn’t think anything of it. Thursday came around and I knew that something big was going to happen today. If it was going to be good or bad I didn’t know. The day started out like any other day. It was unusually calm, but as most know there is a calm before the storm. During sixth period, I got called down to the office. As I walked down the hallway it seemed never ending. I knew that it was bad news or my mom wouldn’t pull me out of class. My stomach was in my throat. Each step I take my heart races faster. I got to the office and my mom said, “Let’s take a walk.” “Okay,” I said. “What happened?” “I resigned today.” I was breathless. I couldn’t form words for what I was feeling. It was like my whole world had taken a sharp right turn and fell off a …show more content…
I didn’t want to leave the town I had been in since third grade. The friends that I had spent my childhood with. I had pictured my future as graduating from Worland High School. I pictured it with my friends and family. But then, my future was blank and I didn’t know where it was headed. From then on I knew my life would never be the same again. I could either choose to lay down and just give up, or learn from it. I chose to learn from it.
The first thing I learned from this time in my life, was that change is inevitable. If you bet on everything staying the same, you are sure to lose. Life is not just a perfect sequence of events. There is always different variable that will change. Before this happened, I was accustomed to the same routine. I thought I was invulnerable to the what life could throw at me. I thought that my life would stay the same forever. I wasn’t sure that I could change my life. I didn’t know if I could all the differences that were coming. Change was something that I had to learn to live
“I’m not quite sure but I will figure it out soon,” she replied.
I brushed it off and didn’t think anything of it. Thursday came around and I knew that something big was going to happen today. If it was going to be good or bad I didn’t know. The day started out like any other day. It was unusually calm, but as most know there is a calm before the storm. During sixth period, I got called down to the office. As I walked down the hallway it seemed never ending. I knew that it was bad news or my mom wouldn’t pull me out of class. My stomach was in my throat. Each step I take my heart races faster. I got to the office and my mom said, “Let’s take a walk.” “Okay,” I said. “What happened?” “I resigned today.” I was breathless. I couldn’t form words for what I was feeling. It was like my whole world had taken a sharp right turn and fell off a …show more content…
I didn’t want to leave the town I had been in since third grade. The friends that I had spent my childhood with. I had pictured my future as graduating from Worland High School. I pictured it with my friends and family. But then, my future was blank and I didn’t know where it was headed. From then on I knew my life would never be the same again. I could either choose to lay down and just give up, or learn from it. I chose to learn from it.
The first thing I learned from this time in my life, was that change is inevitable. If you bet on everything staying the same, you are sure to lose. Life is not just a perfect sequence of events. There is always different variable that will change. Before this happened, I was accustomed to the same routine. I thought I was invulnerable to the what life could throw at me. I thought that my life would stay the same forever. I wasn’t sure that I could change my life. I didn’t know if I could all the differences that were coming. Change was something that I had to learn to live