Many years ago, a teacher of mine once said “if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life”. Growing up in a working middle class family, money is often the motive when finding a job. I have yet to meet someone in my particular family who genuinely says they work to make a difference, not earn an income. Being the first of my family’s generation to attend college, I made sure that whatever field I go into will be one where I can offer some sort of usefulness to those around me. From a young age, I made it a lifelong goal of mine to be helpful to whoever I can offer it to.
This particular quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks to me on a level that I can relate to. I believe it is sometimes hard to look back on your life and come …show more content…
I know that people often dismiss high school relationships. They either seem mediocre or not serious enough because, well, you’re only a teenager. For about two years, I was in a very emotionally, physically, and mentally toxic relationship. Almost every day I remember waking up hating my life, and hating myself for going through this. Why not just leave? It’s not always that easy, especially when it’s your first “real” relationship. At the time, the friends I had in high school had abandoned me. They saw the negative effects the relationship was having on me, and decided to distance themselves. I had no one to talk to, besides the one person who was making my life a living …show more content…
Although she lived miles away in Florida, I eventually found comfort in speaking to her. We ended up trying to help each other leave the toxic relationships we let control our lives. We always spoke about how great it would feel to finally let this horrible person go. We motivated each other to become stronger. A few times we gave in, and went straight back into the relationships. I cannot find the words to describe what I went through completely at the time, and the amount of time it took to force myself to leave and never look back. It came to the point where we both saw that our worth as a person was beyond the relationships we were in, and finally broke things off for
This particular quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks to me on a level that I can relate to. I believe it is sometimes hard to look back on your life and come …show more content…
I know that people often dismiss high school relationships. They either seem mediocre or not serious enough because, well, you’re only a teenager. For about two years, I was in a very emotionally, physically, and mentally toxic relationship. Almost every day I remember waking up hating my life, and hating myself for going through this. Why not just leave? It’s not always that easy, especially when it’s your first “real” relationship. At the time, the friends I had in high school had abandoned me. They saw the negative effects the relationship was having on me, and decided to distance themselves. I had no one to talk to, besides the one person who was making my life a living …show more content…
Although she lived miles away in Florida, I eventually found comfort in speaking to her. We ended up trying to help each other leave the toxic relationships we let control our lives. We always spoke about how great it would feel to finally let this horrible person go. We motivated each other to become stronger. A few times we gave in, and went straight back into the relationships. I cannot find the words to describe what I went through completely at the time, and the amount of time it took to force myself to leave and never look back. It came to the point where we both saw that our worth as a person was beyond the relationships we were in, and finally broke things off for