How Have Trials Impacted My Life

Improved Essays
In Life, everyone goes through different trials, at different times. Through these trails, the way we enter them is different than the way we leave. Meaning, once we face these trials we become a different person in the end, whether it is a good or a bad change. In class, we are asked what have we been impacted from. As I go back and think about my life. I can't help but think off all the things thing that have happen to me. Weather it was seeing death more than once. Or the fact that when i was really young i was able to learn the true meaning of family.
What impacted me the most ? I could say that what impacted me the most was when I was adopted. But that was just paper and pen. When I was truly adopted I was 15. And that is what the law

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    It’s a wonderful evening at Chick-fil-A this is Reagan, how can I serve you? These words will be sketched into my brain for the remainder of my life. Even though those words are associated with many failures and obstacles, they represent the great things that transpired from those struggles. I believe that I develop from both my successes and my failures, but there is a certain, a very special, kind of learning that comes from failure. Failures are relative, to academics, family wishes, personal goals, or cultural beliefs.…

    • 503 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    TITLE: JOURNEY OF LIFE WITH ADVERSITIES Throughout history, mankind has made many different types of journeys. These journeys experienced in life have taught people to cope with difficulties whilst seeking to reach an ultimate destination. Inner journeys such as self-discovery are experienced throughout a person’s life; physical journeys are also experienced, allowing the traveller to have new perspectives on the way they view the world, and allowing the person to benefit from obstacles and challenges by learning ways in which to handle them. Through the use of many literary and visual techniques, the journey of life is travelled regardless of the hardships faced throughout it.…

    • 941 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are many events throughout a persons life that will change them forever. These events can shape the way that they will react in certain situations. While some of these events might be a horrific accident or it might be best thing that has ever happened to them, they all will affect them in a specific way. People will learn from their mistakes and that's what makes them stronger. I have had many past experiences that have shaped the way I live my life, but the one that I always think about is when I fell through the ice when I was little.…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Facing Hardships “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung (qtd. in “The Churning”). Many people have faced hardships and intense situations and are left with a wonderful story to tell and to learn from. Louis Jordan is one person who has been through a extremely intense situation.…

    • 544 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Every one of us experiences challenges in our lives, whether it be daily, weekly, or yearly. Life is a challenge - this is not to be taken negatively, but rather to recognize that life does not always work out the way we want it to. Our lives often become defined by how we deal with the challenges that come about, both ones we fail to meet and those we successfully overcome. What is a challenge? The answer is anything.…

    • 1403 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Shaping Ourselves Experiences within our lives can either have a negative effect or a positive effect on our opinion of the world and ourself. They can help forge us into a stronger person with confidence and who takes the world by the head ,or these experiences can have the reverse effect. They can tear us down, and make us hate the person reflected in the mirror. In the passage from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, a young orphan boy, begins to understand how certain experiences within our lives shape how we view the world and our place within it.…

    • 485 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the words of James Baldwin, “An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which a person faces and uses his experience”. What Baldwin is discussing is the idea of adversity being the core of which identity develops. Struggle shapes individuals. Without hardship, every individual would be completely synonymous with each other. Each individual develops their identity through adversity in unique ways.…

    • 920 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In life many people experience traumatic events. Now a days these traumatic events are effecting many people’s lives. Traumatic events may be rape, a physical assault, death in the family and many more. Some people handle them differently. For adults it may be them quitting their jobs, turning to drugs and alcohol or even committing suicide.…

    • 125 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Growing up with my mother's and father's Somali traditional, and religious beliefs has shaped and impacted my life. My father comes from a very religious family and I mostly spend most of time with his side of the family. My father is also a very well known Sheik at the local mosque here in St. Paul he is very well respected. Growing up i've seen and been exposed to many diverse and religious backgrounds. My faith has significantly impacted both my values and my future.…

    • 226 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Daddy Poem Analysis

    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Series of Reconstruction Life is a series of reconstruction. People will face many hardships in their life - hardships that will break them down and bring them to the abyss of despair. Despite this cruel reality, there is beauty, for these events present the opportunity for growth: the chance to put themselves back together and learn from the experience. Not everyone will be able to conquer these challenges, however, for countless are maimed from the adversities of life and left unequipped to deal with the continuous trials sent their way. Some are bound by shackles of the past and left unable to move forward in their life, and others are born to a life of grandeur, but descend…

    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Agabus Okyere ENG Prof. Dianne Sept. 14, 2016 Formative Experience That Changed Me Everyone living on this planet goes through many experience in their lives. Every experience has an effect on a person in some ways. The outcome of the experience can be good, bad or combination of both. Many features of my life have impacted my nature. One experience that changed me is reading the bible and affects my inner self.…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The True Values of Mistakes Life consists of many ups and downs, some things come and go and they shape you for the better or for the worse, but the most important thing is experience, the ones you live by due to the events that occurred to your life that shapes you into who you are today. But what if life gives you the biggest difficulty as of date? How would you react? Will it shape you for the better or for the worse?…

    • 744 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Einstein once said, “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” I look at this quote as inspiration as to what it would take for me to consider my life successful in 30 years. I think what Einstein is trying to say is that life is too short to worry about what others think and constantly be trying to accumulate better “stuff”. To be truly happy one needs to look at all of what life has to offer and decided what they want out of it and not what others tell them they want. Personally, I view life as a series of experiences, some good some bad, but I view all these experiences as new opportunities to learn and grow.…

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    An experience that changed my life was on May 19th, 2014, my brother’s death. It changed my life in a positive and negative way. You would think that death would devastate someone for the rest of their life, but my brother’s death actually changed my life. I’m not saying that his death didn’t have a negative effect on me, but it had more of a positive effect on me than anything. His death made me an introvert, think for myself, and see things differently.…

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I’ve always thought it was funny that when someone asks us what we want to do with our life, we are expected to know. How can one think about their future career when our redundant day to day routine is dependent on the sound of a bell? After today we will flip over our hourglass and take control of our own lives. We can finally start over and reinvent ourselves into the people we have always dreamed of becoming. This is it, after this ceremony we will become new members of our thriving society.…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays