When my grandfather died, I wept. I cried. I mourned. And then I skied. My dad took me to Stratton mountain
When my grandfather died, I wept. I cried. I mourned. And then I skied. My dad took me to Stratton mountain
Life seems to have endless possibilities and opportunities. Some may be beneficial, whereas others may have no benefit to one’s life. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, the characters will have the opportunity to go up the tallest mountain in the world. Although their life will be at stake, the opportunity for the climbers is just too good to pass up. When reading this book, one will question the climbers’ ways of thinking and the decisions that they make.…
I was one of the kids who flip-flopped through possible jobs based on what I was interested in that year. By the age of twelve I had gone from wanting to be a veterinarian to a teacher to the next Mia Hamm and finally stuck with wanting to be just like my mom. She was a successful lawyer and I knew in that very moment I wanted to be one too.…
Being a physicist is the only career I could imagine doing for the rest of my…
The Blackhawks Game “Bye dad, got to go to school.” “K. See ya Tyler.” Soon after I left, my dad got a call. The man said in a happy voice, “We’ve known Tyler, your hockey player for a while now.…
I wanted to kill my brother. Without my consent, he had just signed me up to compete for the position of captain on my cross-country ski team. I know what you’re thinking. There’s nothing wrong with being a ski captain; it would provide me the chance to prove my leadership abilities. However, I was indecisive.…
Snowboarding Imagine walking outside in the winter time feeling a cold breeze come across your face when you come in contact with the crisp fresh air. As I step out of the ski lodge into the cold air, I get a spectacular view of the snow capped mountain. The snow sinks in as I step, it’s almost like walking on a cloud. I begin to get anxious as I walk down the icy slope to begin my first ever snowboarding lesson.…
When I was little, I wanted to be a chemist. I imagined myself in the lab coat and with goggles on, carefully pouring electric blue liquids and jade green foam back and forth into various containers, until something had exploded and I had discovered the best way to make flowers the size of people. As I grew up, I lost this fantasy, but I gained more knowledge on how I wanted to influence the world. Funnily enough, I discovered what I really wanted to do when I started working at Chick-fil-A during the summer before my sophomore year. All of my friends had warned me against working in fast food, quoting horrible smells and ridiculous customers and tons of grease.…
My grandpa’s death was one of those deaths where you can remember everything about. Where you were, how you were affected, who told you, all that bitter memories you try not to remember but you remember anyways. I can recall every memory I had with him, every detail, visiting him in the hospital, how the family was dealing with this. It was one of those events you couldn’t forget, and can’t forget even if you wanted to since you were so close to that person.…
I remember being a young girl, about age four. I walked down the grassy slope where granite plates lay in the expansive field engraved with names. There was my whole family, gathered around a wooden box situated in front of a statue of Mary. I had no clue why everyone seemed so depressed, the sky was a clear deep blue and the grass was greener than ever. At the time, I thought my family had gathered at a park.…
Life is about not only making choices, but about making the right ones. Every moment in life I have experienced has molded my character into what it is now. There is one moment that does stand above the rest in terms of how it helped shaped my character. Loss is never easy to process, so when I lost my grandmother in the beginning of the summer of my senior year I was left with a choice. To either let grief consume me , or persevere and grow despite my loss.…
My parents brought terrible and shocking news one day late in December to the family and me. I believed I was ready for anything, but I couldn't imagine what it could have been when it involved a family member on the verge of death in the hospital. I was speechless when I heard my cancer surviving Grandfather once again in the hospital. I was in complete silence when I heard this. It felt so unbearable that my mind just went completely blank.…
The day my grandma passed away is a day I can’t ever forget. It was the day my life changed drastically. She was the woman that raised me while my own parents couldn’t. She was there for me growing up and at the time, I didn’t realize how important she was or how important any of my family members were. It changed my perspective on life and I felt like a part of my innocence was taken away from me.…
A grandparent’s love for their grandchild is something that cannot be explained, even the brightest mind cannot conjure up a word for this kind of love. Merriam Webster defines a grandfather as the father of your mother or father, but my grandfather was so much more. My grandfather was the glue in my life, he was the sun in my sky and the light of my path. Anitapoems says “My grandfather had the wisdom of an owl, the sense of humor of a headless chicken, and the heart of an angel.” And I agree with that.…
I do not remember exactly the particular day but all I remember was that it was very humid and the sky was cloudy. It was just a few days before I joined first grade and I had just arrived home from my neighbors. I was utilizing my last few days of freedom and hence was tired and hungry. I had rushed home looking forward to my grandmother’s food and playing time.…
Thursday 5th June 2007 was a very lovely day .Everything was perfect and nothing was wrong. I was sitting with my family in our house in Murair Al Mutarish. It is a small village located in the far north coast of Oman in Shinas state . We were watching T.V like any other day, when we heard the news bulletin. While crossing the coast, cyclone Gonu cause a lot of damage and fatalities.…