Everything Is A Learning Experience By Angus T. Jones

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“Everything is a learning experience,” by Angus T. Jones. Exactly what Angus T. Jones makes perfect sense because any life experience helps us to learn and grow, but for me a life experience was my sophomore year. My sophomore year brought among me many challenges, but those challenges I was able to overcome some slower than others, but they were still overcome. Along my sophomore year I learned many life lessons that helped me understand life a little better. Throughout every day I had magnificent people help me understand those days and help me. Many achievements came with the transcursion of my sophomore year, as well as a community service project I managed to accomplish. In order for this sophomore year to not have felt a pain, I had …show more content…
One of those lessons was that nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know, so we can’t be pushing things to the side because eventually it will come back until we learn from it. Another great lesson I learned was that certain people come into your life as lessons, while others come in as blessings, but every person comes into your life for a reason either negative or positive. One of the most significant lessons I learned is that I need to learn how to leave the past in the past and that I need to stop pleasing people and be myself, because I am me for a reason, if the creator would have wanted me to be a copy he would have sent me a copy not an …show more content…
One of the main persons that helped me this year was my beloved mother. She helped me in many ways, no matter how much stress she was going through she still stopped what she was doing to help me. One of the ways she helped me was by any time that I needed something such as school materials she would buy them for me no matter what. She also helped me every time she would see me stressing out about having too much homework. She would tell me that I would get through it because she knows I am not the kind of person that gives up without putting up a fight. The second person that helped me through any rough time was my best friend, Isaac. When he would see that I would doubt myself he would motivate me to push forward. He would set me consequences if he saw me being negative, and will they were consequences I didn’t want to face,because they included not being able to talk to him, so I would stay positive all the time, even if the times were harsh. He also helped me by making me feel confident when it came to presentations or anything that involved me communicating with another person. He also helped me by cheering me up even when the last thing I wanted to do was smile, because of all the stress I was going through. The third person who helped me through my sophomore year was my other best friend, Ashley. She helped me get through my stress by making me smile

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