(A Reflective Essay of an Event that Changed My Life and Shaped Me as a Person) There is always a line in a story where the narrator marks a specific point in time, a moment either horrible or wonderful, as a defining point in their life. The narrator may say that this changed them as a person, and how they saw things, or how they dealt with problems and experiences. Though this is a very common thing in stories written in famous novels, it’s not so often that one recognizes a moment in their life that shapes them as a human being. When that defining moment happens, one doesn’t just know that it will change who they are; but as they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty. Upon looking back at the events in my short sixteen years, I have found many moments that I realize has controlled the way my personality has developed up to this point in time. There have been events such as my parents divorce, my father’s imprisonment, and the death of many loved ones close to me, but the time in my life that I see having the greatest …show more content…
The words thank you are the words that pass through my lips more than anything else. Knowing that I cannot always repay the people who help me with whatever I am struggling with, I offer them thanks instead, and hope that they realize that if I had the time, or if the situation was better, I would gladly pay them back. Recently in the emergency room the radiologist technician commented on my use of thank you, and despite the amount of pain I was in, how I still went out of my way to say thank you. So, because of that situation, I say thank you as much as I can. For a peer handing me a paper, for a teacher returning work I submitted to them previously, or for a young woman giving my brothers and I food. Through that, I was taught that the words thank you can never be used too