Coming Home Research Paper

I was born in a big home in Baghdad, Iraq, in which I grew for 15 years. Because situations got dangerous back in Baghdad, we had to travel away from home for the first time. Despite all the places I’ve been in my home was the only place I felt that safety and warmth feelings being in. Saying goodbye to everyone and everything I’m used to was so difficult for a 15 years old teenager. I got so mad and started complaining “Why! Why did we have to leave?” Complaining was the only word I knew as a teenager. Traveling to Erbil, north of Iraq, I remember how the first week went with heavy tears on my face. It was very hard for me to have new friends and new school without missing my old school and friends. Leaving home I also missed some of my relatives who were still living there. The worst thing I had to go through is missing my dad and mom who had to go back and forth to finish a lot of things that had to be done before we leave like selling our car, home, bringing more stuff in.etc. So basically I had a lot of things to complain about. However a year passed in Erbil and I got used to everything and everyone new but I was still not satisfied. In March …show more content…
Until I started high school where I learned the most important lesson in my life, it took only a few words from one of the best teachers I had in high school to change my whole life. It was one of the days when my history teacher told us that we have a surprising quiz and everyone started complaining. Softly my teacher said “quiet!” everyone was silent and started listening to him. “You guys complain a lot! You guys should stop complaining and start being thankful….. You know that every day I wake up in the morning, I thank god for the new day in life.” said my teacher. These powerful words from one of my role models in life got me thinking “when was the last time I thanked god for something, or have I ever thanked god