Then we went to our rooms to check what they took they took money and and my mom’s jelwery. They didn’t take nothing from me, and i had a stash of money. When we move at first I was sad because i was going to…
Securing your happiness has it’s limits, but in order to find your happiness you have to go through fear to find it. In the short story, What of this Goldfish, Would you Wish it talks about being under pressure. Winning isn’t always everything, because sometimes winning can be painful in the long run. We’ve all have won and felt happiness in our lives, but there’s also fear and failure that looms over us when we don’t even know it. But what causes for fear is being pressured to do something to either you don’t want to do or it’s to choose between two things and once you choose one of the two you can’t get the other.…
It was a dark night. I was home alone. I was watching the movie Ride Along. All of a sudden i hear “”, the errrrrr door opens and I hid. I ran to the laundry room and closed the door.…
It is when we are asleep, we are given the power to let our minds wander. To lose all sense of reality and drift aimlessly through our subconscious thoughts and dreams. A time when all of our problems and struggles in the physical world slip away for a brief period of time. It is when we wake, we are forced to face the harsh reality of the world we live in. A world with crime and hate.…
It was early March and my family and I were heading out to Beardstown, IL to see my cousins. We had just got done talking over the phone with my uncle, then my parents told my brothers and me that we were going to go see them tomorrow. My parents were also talking on the phone with them about letting my brothers and I sleeping over at their house. Later when we arrived we went to their house and ate breakfast, while my parents and and my uncle were talking we played video games with my cousin. Later when we had just said goodbye to my uncle and aunt my parents decided that we were going to go to springfield to the mall and the grocery store.…
Its spring of 2003, my grandmother had been babysitting me while my parents left to go to work for the day. Towards 5 o’clock, my mother walked into the door. I was greeted with an enormous hug filled with love and affection. Shortly after she arrived, my father stopped by the house. He welcomed everyone in the room with love and happiness, but what I thought was all hugs and kisses turns into a heated controversy.…
Life is like an overly complicated game of Jenga where the end goal is to keep everything standing and balanced. However, sometimes this balance will tumble down from one slip of the hand. This is the story of how I lost the big life game of Jenga. We could start from the very beginning, but I'll take a jump to where the turbulence began. It was the early winter of 2005, the sun basking outside, the breeze of Florida's humid air blew.…
Have you ever been to Disney World?well I have and i've been there for five days, my whole family was there dad, mom, Nadia and I. When I got there I felt like a whole bucket of happiness fell on me. “Wake up you are late for school!”…
There’s a difference between moving out and being evicted. Moving out is wanting to leave a certain place, being evicted is the opposite. You have to pack all your things that you've collected over the years, baby clothes, books, movies, and the memories. I just got home from the last day of tenth grade, sitting on the couch talking on the phone.…
The only memories I have are from pictures. I lived in Sharon, Massachusetts for 5 years. These were probably the best 5 years of my life. I remember the anticipation my family had to find out where we were moving next. Two of my three siblings with me on the couch, holding hands, sitting in front of my parents, waiting for them to say where we were moving.…
When I was nine. Growing up in Egewood. I was leaving my sister. I prayed of seeing her. I want to be able to call her three times a month.…
One memory that means a lot to me is when I got to go to Hume Lake. This last summer I went to Hume Lake Christian Camp for the first time. This was a life changing experience. The reason that this was life changing included getting closer to my friends by doing things we could not do at home. This included me going on hikes, jumping off of rocks, and lastly talking over some good old milk shakes.…
The Moving “Your dad got a proposal to move to the United States. It’s up to you. What do you think?” It was in September of 2012. My mom and I were having a snack in the kitchen.…
Great depression storyline Growing up in Penny, Oklahoma was difficult. As a young girl I constantly moved from place to place. We were never able to afford one months pay, so we would move every month. I became accustomed to it.…
For me, I remembered my own nonnormative life event like it was yesterday. 5 years ago, my grandmother passed away without a notice. I was 16 at the time when I first heard the tragic news about my grandmother. I remembered my uncle called my mom and told her that my grandma had been hospitalized in critical condition. My grandmother had a heart attack in her home where she hit her head on the drawer near her bed.…