If I were able to meet my high school self, he would be unrecognizable. Our image of ourselves is different, our abilities are different, and how we view the world is different. These changes, whether they are good or bad, have made me the person I am today. At the end of high school, I had the feeling that nothing could stop me. I had left my strict boarding school of Saint James, and I was ready to There was no longer the supervision of my parents or teachers to hold me back, and there were no limits on what I was allowed to do. I had a clear path to success, in which I would go to college, get a job in a field I loved, find a wife, and live happily ever after. There was nothing I couldn’t do.
When my condition kicked in, however, I was unable to achieve those goals. Instead I was an either a patient …show more content…
During that time I pondered how a persons situation or life could be uplifted in a moments notice. I used to think that the world was black and white. There was a right way of doing something, and there was a wrong way of doing something. If one followed the correct path then they were invincible, as some force in the world protected them. It made the world an easy to navigate place in which, if I followed the path I would reap the benefits. After my injury occurred, I realized that everyone’s story is more complicated than that. There are bumps in the road that one cannot predict, and challenges along the road that people cannot even comprehend how to fix. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost he is presented with two clear choices, and he picks the one “less traveled by”. He expresses this with doubts saying “I shall be telling this with a sigh”. During high school, I saw this idea as a metaphor for taking the path you
When my condition kicked in, however, I was unable to achieve those goals. Instead I was an either a patient …show more content…
During that time I pondered how a persons situation or life could be uplifted in a moments notice. I used to think that the world was black and white. There was a right way of doing something, and there was a wrong way of doing something. If one followed the correct path then they were invincible, as some force in the world protected them. It made the world an easy to navigate place in which, if I followed the path I would reap the benefits. After my injury occurred, I realized that everyone’s story is more complicated than that. There are bumps in the road that one cannot predict, and challenges along the road that people cannot even comprehend how to fix. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost he is presented with two clear choices, and he picks the one “less traveled by”. He expresses this with doubts saying “I shall be telling this with a sigh”. During high school, I saw this idea as a metaphor for taking the path you