The Most Significant Events In My Life

There are many events in our lives that impact us and shape who we are as individuals. Some may be so minuscule that it takes years to realize how that event has impacted us and some so immensely prominent that it impacts us immediately. One such event in my life that has helped me grow as an individual and find out more about myself was being uprooted from where I grew up in Olive Branch, Mississippi and moving to Ocala, Florida. I was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and at the young age of five my family and I moved to Olive Branch, Mississippi because my father’s job relocated us. Growing up in Olive Branch was amazing and I couldn’t have grown up in a better area. It was a great city that wasn’t too big but yet not too small, it is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. As a child Olive Branch was a prosperous ever growing city and was full of families just like mine so there were many …show more content…
It took quite some time to get used to living in a new city and house seven-hundred miles from “home.” I have now lived here in Ocala for a little over a year now and looking back at the time I have spent here I am now thankful for the move. It has allowed me to really develop as an individual and find out things about myself I wasn’t able to find out living in Olive Branch. I also am now in college and don’t have the distractions I did back in Olive Branch so I can focus on my studies and do good in college so I can be successful. I have really grown to like Ocala and living in Florida even though there is so much I have yet to discover about where I live now. I plan to maybe one day after I graduate from college to move back to Olive Branch to be with the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. I hope to get into law enforcement and start my own family in the city that heavily contributed to make me the man I am