College Admissions Essay: The Most Important Things In My Life

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What is my life all about? Why am I living in a world that is a hamster wheel of birth, work and death? What is it that makes my heart sing and how could I live by my own standards? And, most importantly, why am I not listening to that inner voice that keeps trying to warn me when I’m about to do something stupid.

Every few years I would find myself practically homeless, broke, hungry, trying to hang onto whatever strands of a human existence I had left. I had a hole within me that was so vast and deep, years of numbing myself muted the pain and clouded my self-worth. My friends and family wondered why and how I could keep letting this happen, from working with some of the most famous people in Hollywood to begging for food. After each cycle
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During a season of historic rainfall and chilling temperatures in a land that was miraculously left untouched by the devastating wildfires just a year before - it was saved so I could come here. Adam created an entire world just for me to learn every lesson, first hand. I was alone, hungry, chopping wet firewood each day just for a speckle of heat, I had to learn to work with my hands and, only, what was given to me.

As a man, I fought with him asking why I was made gay when I should have been a father, protector, caregiver - this was another part of the work where he taught me in which everything in our lives is designed for a specific reason that we must figure out. One evening, as my fingers hovered over the keyboard, I asked Adam again for the purpose of this flaw - across my computer screen appeared the words, “You will need to be the father to those that do not have one.”

Every aspect of my being would be tested, explained, enlightened. My physical body even withered down to a skeletal thin frame to mirror what was taking place inside of
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Here’s a truth that I learned the hard way: We all have a purpose in life, we are born for a very specific reason. When we don’t follow the path that we are meant to walk - our life is filled with unhappiness, turmoil, poverty of spirit, money and love. We make stupid decisions because we think we know better than what is guiding us, and then when everything crumbles around our ankles we race back to our faith, to God - Source Energy Guidance, the Universe to beg for help and forgiveness.

“Your purpose in life is to complete the path that you are called to walk.” - Adam

Join me in the journey - Walking with Adam, where we follow the path In Pursuit of a Heart Guided Life so, together, we can bring light to where there is

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