The events that happen in life are meant to inculcate the person you are supposed to become. Life and the events that have come with it have taught me just that. There are numerous events that occur in your life. The moment where you learn to read, the time you helped a friend with something, or the events of spending time with family during the holidays. Moments like these have ‘made a large impact on how I see life. While everyday occurrences don’t give such an impact. Some will help you develop in skills for the future while others were just not as important. (Chippendale & Boltz). Interestingly, there is always this one event that virtually compels you to change inadvertently. On January 12,2010, my life was changed forever. - 130 Growing
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Instead of yelling at me, he always settled on a tactical approach of addressing this issue in some ways. He would volunteer me for events in our community, make me take my mother to places, and have me go with him to work. This was my father’s way to teach me to become different. Being the hot headed boy that I was, I would never want to do these things and always try to find a way out of the things he wanted me to do. My father decided for my twenty-first birthday he was going to make a huge celebration. As we embarked on the preparations for my birthday my father had told me that he needed to teach me something once and for all. I will never forget the day my father and I were finishing slaughtering the ram for my party when my father turned to me and said, “Son, you are old enough now, and you need to view life from a different perspective.” I was perplexed by what he meant, but I knew that this day my life was going to be different. During my birthday celebration I was sitting beside Rodger Davidson- a young man who bought a horse when he was seventeen. I soon looked at my father in panic. I anxiously enquired “Father, you have always been there for me. Will I make it in life?” Like all good fathers, he drew me in closer to him and replied. “I want you to find meaning in your life son. I will not always be there.” I was stunned by his honesty and I could not articulate anything on what my father affirmed; I was sure then that moment would forever change my life. After my friends had left, I convinced myself that there was nothing to worry about. I had thought it was just like every other day that my father tried to hammer sense into my head about the future. However, the next day I was catapulted into a whole new world.
Instead of yelling at me, he always settled on a tactical approach of addressing this issue in some ways. He would volunteer me for events in our community, make me take my mother to places, and have me go with him to work. This was my father’s way to teach me to become different. Being the hot headed boy that I was, I would never want to do these things and always try to find a way out of the things he wanted me to do. My father decided for my twenty-first birthday he was going to make a huge celebration. As we embarked on the preparations for my birthday my father had told me that he needed to teach me something once and for all. I will never forget the day my father and I were finishing slaughtering the ram for my party when my father turned to me and said, “Son, you are old enough now, and you need to view life from a different perspective.” I was perplexed by what he meant, but I knew that this day my life was going to be different. During my birthday celebration I was sitting beside Rodger Davidson- a young man who bought a horse when he was seventeen. I soon looked at my father in panic. I anxiously enquired “Father, you have always been there for me. Will I make it in life?” Like all good fathers, he drew me in closer to him and replied. “I want you to find meaning in your life son. I will not always be there.” I was stunned by his honesty and I could not articulate anything on what my father affirmed; I was sure then that moment would forever change my life. After my friends had left, I convinced myself that there was nothing to worry about. I had thought it was just like every other day that my father tried to hammer sense into my head about the future. However, the next day I was catapulted into a whole new world.