“When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They are sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” Every day, each individual faces both obstacles and conflicts in every aspect of life. How individuals deal with these events influences who they become and their identities. How others see people handle their obstacles and conflicts impacts their own identities and question their morals.…
“Hew out of the mountain of despair to a stone of hope, and you can make your life a splendid one.” This is my grandfather’s favorite quote. He kept saying that to me when he tried to pass on his life experience to me. Not paid much attention to it, I never thought that hope is the power to wake up my sleepy potentials. It was not until have seen the Shawshank Repetition directed by Frank Darabont that I realized how the hope can motivate me when I suffered.…
In early August of 2012, my dad and I decided to visit my Grandpa and Grandma Hurt in Florida. We hadn’t seen them in a couple years and it was time to spend quality time with them because time goes quickly, and you never know what could happen. The car ride seemed forever, but I was so excited to go to Florida. The car ride was almost unbearable to sit hour after hour. The only peculiar thought about this trip, is that my grandpa was sick, and the doctors did not know what exactly was wrong.…
“Nurse Kaylee.” The raspy voice of my grandfather calling me that, jump started my career choice of becoming a Registered Nurse. Since that day, I have ached with motivation to make him more than proud. Every decision I have ever made was to help myself become the best I could be for my grandfather. Even through the frustrations and failures, I will always have him in the back of my mind to help support the continuation of my own path of becoming what I was truly meant to be.…
“Life is a game, play it; Life is a challenge, meet it; Life is an opportunity, capture it”-Unknown. My Uncle Steve lived by this, until he no longer could not. I was never close with him because he lived so far away but he was always my role model. Suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder, I never thought I could do anything with my life.…
Literacy Narrative Everyone has a story to tell, one of the most important stories anyone can tell is the story of how they came to choose their career path. My specific career path is nursing. Some Nurses tell a personal story of something medically happening to them. However my story is different.…
The odious clouds consumed the silver skies leaving the sun imperceptible. The thousands of riotous rain drops slammed against the filthy asphalt. That day, the world was different. Today this merciless world was missing someone. The vast world took away someone insignificant to the diverse population, but extremely important to me.…
At 20 years old, I received the most terrifying call of my life, my brother called and said, “Something bad happened, dad had a stroke.” my heart sank. I did not know much about strokes or what causes them or if my dad was going to be okay. As soon as I got the call, I drove to the hospital where my dad had been taken.…
In this past week’s readings, I have learned many things about the oppressions people with disabilities go through. The more I read about the way people with disabilities feel about the way people treat them, the worse I feel about how I react to disabled people. I have begun to realize that I should not treat them any differently than I would someone without a disability. People seem to think that disabled people cannot do simple, daily tasks. I always want to help a disabled person when I see them, however, in reality, me trying to help them is just making the situation worse.…
You always hear of adults and children being diagnosed with cancer, whether it is in a commercial, in the newspaper, on social media, or one of your friends may even have a family member that has been diagnosed with this horrible disease. You never consider cancer affecting you or one of your family members. Out of 14 million people in the world who are diagnosed with cancer every year, how can one of those 14 million possibly be one of your family members? There are 7 billion people on this planet, God could not possibly do that to our family. The odds are slim to none, cancer will never touch me nor my family, it is just impossible!…
My sister and I were spending summer of 2007 with my mom and her husband in San Antonio, Texas. It was an early and beautiful Tuesday morning in San Antonio. I woke up with an overwhelming need to talk to my dad that was back home in Dallas, Texas. I called and called and there was no answer, which was very odd since he had been working since 6am. After what seemed like the millionth time trying to reach him somebody picked up the phone.…
This time in my life was filled with death and misery. My father died while giving a speech to his legislature on a hot afternoon in June, it wasn’t until after we knew it was a stroke. My mother suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed her left side, she managed to live 7 years after her tragic diagnosis.…
Tears of Sorrow Death, I never really understood this meaning, why are they so heartbreaking when we lose someone we hold dearest. I never knew what this agonizing pain felt like until a couple years ago. The feeling, the pain and the countless day of not getting out of bed. I felt this way when I lost the one person who shared the most interest on me. On that day, exactly six year ago, I knew it all over for me and it came in the most unforeseen way.…
Teaching a Pessimist In a song from Lion King II, Simba sings to his daughter, “As you go through life you’ll see there is so much that we don’t understand, and the only thing I know is things don’t always go the way we planned”, I have lived much of my life with a grumpy and pessimistic outlook, even when I laughed I was sure something depressing was soon to follow. This pessimism was not because I had a bad life, instead it was because of my perfectionism. Throughout my life, I have tried to become a “peachy” person, but it wasn’t until I watched death and loss of freedom, that I understood the value of life. One day in early-April, I walked down Courtland Street, making a right towards Main Street, where Saint Joseph’s Hospital stood.…
Mistakes are inevitable. Time is unbeatable. The longer the clock ticks, the more mistakes will be made. Time and mistakes have a funny way of coassisting with each other. Time however doesn’t stop for a mistake it keeps ticking away.…