High School Life Experience Research Paper

I guess it is true that time does fly when you 're having fun. High school flew by even though it lasted four whole years. It felt much shorter than that. There were so many useful things that I learned throughout my high school career, and they weren 't only things that were taught to me in the classrooms. I learned so much from my friends, from my teachers, from the mistakes I made, and the people who weren 't exactly my friends. During my years in high school and even middle school, I changed so much as a person and grew into a woman that I am genuinely proud of and a woman I love unconditionally. High school seemed like such a busy four years for me, partly because I tried to involve myself in as many things as I could because I thought …show more content…
A major life experience that I have had was my parents divorcing in April of 2007. It was a very hard time for my sister and I. We loved both of our parents dearly and wanted them to be together because I felt that if we weren 't all together, we weren 't actually a family. This was the one thing that had been constant and there my whole life: my parents. And parents meant being married and being together, not being divorced, living in different houses, and packing every other weekend and on Wednesdays to see the other parent. That wasn 't fair. But that 's just the thing: it wasn 't fair. This whole experience sucked more than I would like to admit, but it definitely taught me that life was not fair and you couldn 't always get what you wanted. I couldn 't understand why other kids could still have their parents married, but I couldn 't. Finally, three years later in 2010 at the age of 12 I realized that because life wasn 't fair, it was actually fair for everyone. Nobody got everything that they wanted, and everyone had to deal with the hand that they were dealt just like I did so I had no reason to think that I was the only one who got jacked by life. This can be applied largely in my adult and college life because there are always going to be circumstances that get in my way that are not "fair" and that could make me bitter, but other people are struggling with things that they see as unfair as well, so I need to be more understanding and aware of that and treat everyone as if they are having the worst day of their life. It makes for a happier, much more caring world. Another major life experience I had was August 7, 2013, when my sister died of the hanta virus. She was taken suddenly from us, but that wasn 't what made it hard. What made it hard, was that she was my role model and my best friend. She was the woman that I aspired to be like in the future.