The things about challenges are overcoming them, and telling your friends and family about what you faced, in my case the challenge I faced changed the way I think about beautiful things, and about my life. How can something so beautiful be so treacherous? I was so happy enjoying my day, but within seconds…pure joy turned into fear. It was a beautiful day spent at schliterbahn, but hours being in the same placed bored me. I asked my brother for permission to go to the island, since it meant just crossing the bridge and there it was.…
Have you ever had a child that resisted bedtime? Perhaps your child was afraid of the dark, was sensitive to every noise he heard, or simply couldn't relax himself enough to fall asleep. Well, that is our son Ian, and he has had challenges with bedtime from an early age. To help him feel comfortable at night, my husband and I would lie down with him until he fell asleep. Now we are trying to change this bedtime routine because not only is it unhealthy for Ian, it is becoming challenging for us.…
Moving Again Have you ever moved schools? Have you lost friends? Well it really stinks. Moving schools have affected me for lots of reasons, but I am getting better.…
Change happens everywhere, and most of the time, it is very hard to deal with. For me, I hated moving. It was difficult to think that I had to a leave the place where I grew up for most of my life. And then when it happened, it did not get any better. “The first step toward change is awareness.…
The Big Game It was December 7,2015. I was in Des Moines at a championship game. We played 2 games to warm up. Then went to our championship game up against the Waterloo Hoopers. We started it was 10 to 10.…
I know I am a workaholic and I am trying to get away from this I am learning to delegate and put my foot down, especially saying “No”. I know I have always felt satisfied when I kept doing more and endlessly tiring myself. I know I have been encouraged by my own self to be me, to be straight with people and with my own self; my own wants and feelings rather than crooked and covert. In this manner I am learning to understand what I want and possibly how to get it.…
It is the morning of July 4th, 2008: I groan as my mother gently whispers, “teneshi yene mar (Get up honey)”. Struggling I open my eyes and notice the trembling cabin, I turn to my mother with a look of concern and she reaches out her hand and squeezes my own looking up at me, “we are going to be okay Mar”. A couple of moments later our plane has landed, we gather up our belongings and make our way towards the exit filled with people attached to their screens and MP3 players. The airport is filled with an undercurrent of anticipation, impatience, and boredom; bodies scramble back and forth from one gate to another. My mother, attempting to balance three children, clasps my hand, holds my little brother to her waist and calls back to my older…
Where do I see myself five years from now? I haven’t ever been asked this question before so it never occurred to me to actually sit down and think about it. I’m seventeen years old so at my age kids don’t really think about the future and where we see ourselves five years ahead. I know for myself I am a live in the moment, looking for the next adventure type of person. Being asked this question really makes me slow down and think.…
Lets Make it A Hobby One of my hobbies is to break a norm. When I first heard about breaking a norm was in 2014, one of my friends mentioned it while we were talking about my major, psychology.…
An accomplishment that i'm very proud of is the way how i grew out of boy and into a man. When i first got into high school i was sort of overwhelmed with trying to fit in. I cared so much of trying to fit in within certain types of people, that I had lost focus on many things especially my grades and school. After noticing a enormous drop off of my grades and myself, I desperately tried to improve myself because i felt like i was disappointing my future self and my family. But because I tried to desperately try to improve myself anyway, I took big steps instead of little steps to help open the door of improvement.…
My whole life change, I didn't enjoy Christmas like I used to or even my birthday. I was changing, I was slacking in school and not doing nothing useful in my life. then reality hit me hard. my guys counselor had a long talk with me and that helped tremendously with everything. she told me don't let the fire hold you back from who you really are.…
Next year when I am a sophomore, I am going to change some things. First, I'm going to become much more organized. I'll have a hole puncher in my binder so that I wont chove things into pockets and put things where they are supposed to be. I'll organize and clean out my backpack every weekend so that I don't carry more than I have to.…
I have moved a couple times around my lifetime probably around five times if I count correctly. However, the biggest move that I ever made was one when I was in the middle of my fifth-grade year. This move happened due to seasonal work problems that my family was having. We lived in New Carlisle a small town in Ohio where my mother worked for a plant nursery while my father worked as a roofer, so due to this during the snowy months, which usually averages around three months, they were both unemployed. This made keeping up with the bills a hassle…
During my life I went through a difficult obstacle in my life and what happen was I was about 8 years old and I was living with my mom at the time and I lived with her for a year and when I was about 9 years old me and my family were just having fun and watching tv until these people called CPS came to my mom house and told us we had to pack our things and I had no idea what was going on at all and we got into the car and drove off and i had to live in the intro home for almost 6 months before I got placed into a home. The next thing I know was I got placed with my mom sister aunty Pinky and I lived with her for a whole year until something happen at the house and I had to move back into the into home and I was there for another two months then I got replaced into a another home with my mom’s first cousin uncle Kuma them…
I could sit here and type about the real struggles i've had throughout life. Or the way my entire childhood centered on one bike ride. The rusted $20 bicycle has helped me to grow up in ways that the other complicated and dramatic problems never could. From a young age I was eager to explore, to run and be free.…