People learn a lot throughout their lives, everyone had experiences some of them may be good some of them may be bad. One thing is for sure wise people take advantage of those lessons at least that is the way I see it, I have learned so much from my lessons. I have put in practice what I have learned so far and it had helped me out to recognize the value of simple things in life such as family, people around you, the material things you have, and those things that makes your life better and happier.
One of the lessons that impacted my life the most and taught me a lot of things such as to love those around me happened to me when I was nine years old. At age of nine I remember that one of my uncles when on vacations to my mother land I was still …show more content…
I played the role of an adult and tried to keep everyone safe but then again I was just a nine years old boy trying to look after six kids younger than me. I could not control them all and one of the younger ones get in to a rocky cliff, when I realized was going on I rushed over the cliff to prevent that my younger cousin fell into the water I managed to get her off the cliff harmless, but I stepped in as loose rock I lost valance and fell. The water was so deep that I couldn’t touch the bottom. The worst thing was that I did not know how to swim at that time, I struggled for about five minutes I thought I was done for. A lot of things flashed throughout my mind in matter of seconds, I tried so hard to swim but I didn’t work I was losing hope and giving up and then those memories kept crossing my mind. One of them was my dad who was far from home, other one was my mom and my brother, my grandma and even my dog crossed my mind at that moment a bunch of the good moments that we had came into my mind and there I was losing consciousness when someone grabbed me and lift me up in the air. I don’t know how he did it a fisherman who was near swam all the way where I was and saved me from drowning, and by the time my uncle found out what was happening that brave man had saved me
One of the lessons that impacted my life the most and taught me a lot of things such as to love those around me happened to me when I was nine years old. At age of nine I remember that one of my uncles when on vacations to my mother land I was still …show more content…
I played the role of an adult and tried to keep everyone safe but then again I was just a nine years old boy trying to look after six kids younger than me. I could not control them all and one of the younger ones get in to a rocky cliff, when I realized was going on I rushed over the cliff to prevent that my younger cousin fell into the water I managed to get her off the cliff harmless, but I stepped in as loose rock I lost valance and fell. The water was so deep that I couldn’t touch the bottom. The worst thing was that I did not know how to swim at that time, I struggled for about five minutes I thought I was done for. A lot of things flashed throughout my mind in matter of seconds, I tried so hard to swim but I didn’t work I was losing hope and giving up and then those memories kept crossing my mind. One of them was my dad who was far from home, other one was my mom and my brother, my grandma and even my dog crossed my mind at that moment a bunch of the good moments that we had came into my mind and there I was losing consciousness when someone grabbed me and lift me up in the air. I don’t know how he did it a fisherman who was near swam all the way where I was and saved me from drowning, and by the time my uncle found out what was happening that brave man had saved me