I didn’t even notice that a less than a year later things were different. Over the last almost two years I was more respected in the family, my brother overcame a drug addiction, and A few months later, Theodore Michael Winter was born on December 29, 2014. When I held him for the first time, he was just few days old and I had never held a baby before. Then I realized that…
As a military child, I left the United States with my family at the age of five and spent eight years living overseas at duty stations in Japan, Germany, and Italy. We traveled extensively during vacations to over 20 different countries. As a result, I claim proficiency in ordering french fries and apple juice in several different languages. Although moving has brought me some misfortune, and many people would say that living overseas qualifies as adversity, I never felt it was such.…
Beginning junior year, I occupied myself with the most constructive investment in my life. My daily routine was bland, but oddly hailed as the ultimate path to victory. I was learning in school, but the learning lacked meaning. Plot lines and mathematical formulas were unavailing ideas, which I tepidly regurgitated. I concluded that a life permeated with monotonous toil was not worth celebrating on my day of judgment.…
With change, there are always compromises. You lose your sense of familiarity, and find yourself in a sea of strangeness. With every wave, you are hit by the unfamiliar. However, you soon adapt and find that this raging sea has turned into a flowing river, taking you toward your success. Along the path you begin to see things that look familiar, and realize that you are on the same path that you had been before.…
Life started getting rough for me around the time that my dad was terminated (11/10/2016). Everything seems to be coming at me all at once. Asides from studying for finals, I was also focused on working two jobs because everything in the house became my responsibility. Mortgage became my responsibility, bills became mine, car loans became mine, expenses in the house became mine as well. I became the support system for my family, both emotionally and financially.…
Fall of 2010 and spring of 2012 were the 2 semesters I was inactive after graduating from the University of San Diego. In the fall of 2010 I was acclimating to a life back in Los Angeles and actively looking for a position where I was serving others. I secured a tutoring position in an underserved community for students in grades k thru 12 in the areas of math, science, and English for a startup tutoring company called 1 On 1 Academic Tutors. My greatest competitive advantage became my hunger to succeed and to actualize the life that my parents envisioned for me when they migrated from Mexico. Within the year, I was promoted to Senior Contract Administrator and by fall of 2012 I was creating spreadsheets alongside graphs and analyzing them…
Over the duration of my senior summer I was allowed to experience many wonders as I transitioned out of one segment of my life to a new one; however, possibly to greatest experience out of the entire time period of my summer was my family's trip to six flags. We began planning for the trip months in advance saving money, gathering supplies, and making reservations. We toiled through this segment of planing making sure that all of the details of the trip would be perfect. Once all of our details were lined up ducks in a row and bags packed as if we were to stay for a month, we began travel on the an interstate that was as busy as an ant nest just before winter, as in when they begin to store food, but I digress we weaved through the traffic,…
When I was born, per my father, whenever you would talk to me, I wouldn’t show any reaction towards you. The only time I would ever react is when my mother was screaming about something and I would look around the room for the sound. In third grade, I would always get in trouble, perhaps because I didn’t listen when I was supposed to. This changed as soon as I got my hearing aids. I remember the molding of the hearing aid being stuck into ears, which felt like there was cold water in my ears.…
For a while, I wasn’t able to see. I spent portions of my life feeling extremely tired and fatigued. In the back of my mind, I had assumed that someone would make the effort to help me, but no one ever did. Was it due to the fact that no one cared or was there a biological process in the human brain that causes people to act this way? Was it due to a person’s natural biology or was it the environment?…
Throughout the course of my life, I have had multiple “ups and downs”, like a roller coaster, which steadily defined who I am today. As a young child, I was shielded from most of the public world because my parents enrolled me into a private school. My continuous naivety throughout my elementary years led me to a rude awakening when I was first introduced into middle school. Although this defined me as a maturing person, like a roller coaster car moving upwards at a snail’s pace, what truly changed my ambitions and perspective on school, and brought me to my highest point, was when my father came into my life again.…
My sister Elly is a senior in college, she was given a sports marketing internship down in Nashville, Tennessee. So last summer, she drove all the way there. She was going to live in an apartment with some of her sorority sisters (Alpha Delta Pi) on campus. Elly lived only ten blocks away from Bridgestone Arena. The place where the CMT award show would be at!…
It all started I'd say in the last leg of the 1st quarter of 7th grade. Things were going pretty well, say there as a sense of calmness and no stress. Just a tranquil peaceful environment. If there was one would that I would describe this time period in my life (no matter how short it is) is peaceful. I lived in a really nice home with really nice neighbors in a really nice neighborhood (besides the HOA, of course).…
Yelling, screaming, fighting all awaken me at three in the morning. Crashing vases, things breaking all around. Court rooms and custody battles. These were the things that accompanied me throughout my childhood. Early one morning before preschool, around the time my dad left for work, I am awoken to the sounds of my parents fighting.…
Once you you get into a habit of doing something every day it is really had to pull yourself away. Technology has become a major part in our lives and we can not help it because it is everywhere and everyone uses it. It is how we communicate and work and to go without it for a while could end up hurting us. As I sat up in my bed I saw the glaring sun while it started to peek through the curtains.…
Growing up in life, I haven’t always chose to do the right thing. Some of those actions led to consequences that made me feel that nothing is fair. I wish I could go back and do things differently. Although I have made mistakes, I still feel that I deserve to have some freedom in my life.…