Personal Statement: What I Believe

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I Believe people should live life in the moment and not in the past. What leads me to believe this is the amount of people every day trapped in a moment of time where they were troubled. Sometimes tragic or sometimes heart breaking you have to realize things happen and there is no way to prevent some events or tragities from happening. Personally I have luckily had very few tragic moments in my life besides the moment of my parents divorce. For me that really was the main event that was depressing in my life and you worry about it for so long until eventually you just have to understand things happen for a reason and until you fully understand that reason you will be looking for something that potentially isn't there.

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