Importance Of Tick, Tock, Tock

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Tick, tock, tick, tock. Time is fleeting by. Minutes, maybe hours, have passed since I first read the question they want me to answer- Are there any significant experiences you have had, or accomplishments you have realized, that helped you to define you as a person? The question took its toll on me. It made me think hard. It made me reminisce every happening in my life.

Tick, tock, tick, tock. Time is fleeting by. Minutes have passed since I typed down my first paragraph for this essay. Just a few minutes of innate thinking made me realized a lifetime-worth of insights. And now, I’m ready to answer their question properly-

Yes. Of course, yes! All experiences of every second of my knotty life helped me define myself of what I am now. Every
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My circle of influences drastically brought me to be drawn against new things. I was into drawing and painting during my pre-elementary years. Enjoying that flair, I joined art contests in my school, St. Therese Child Development Center(STCDC) now, St. Therese Child Development Center Foundation Incorporated. That school gave way, not only to my artistic side but also to my musical side. I joined the chorale of the said school. I excelled in our class. I had great teachers and friends. Who could have asked for more? Things may be getting well for me there but eventually I had to transfer to Sto. Niño SPED Center (SNSC), a public school, should I need to say more. No tuition fees means not a bit of problem to my parents.

My life in SNSC was too different to that in my previous school. Well, obviously, it’s because that my previous school was a private one. We had books; we need not copy lengthy notes and we had better facilities there. No one is to be blamed of course; After all, not everything we want can be in our
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Meeting different people with different cultures taught me to be open-minded and selfless. I enjoyed sharing my flairs which I owe to our magnificent God and to my trainers, my family, STCDC and SNSC. I became a join-all-of-the-school-and-even-outside-the-school-clubs type of person. I was elected as a representative of the year level when I was in my junior year and was also recognized as a photojournalist of our school publication; these were my most wanted desires this high school. I managed to balance them, including my other minor school clubs like the Debate Society, with my academics and whenever I think back to how I reached my senior year in high school, I cannot help but smile and be proud of myself; despite everything- the frenzied schedule, the gruesome horde of school work and the pressure from people around me, I made

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