Happiest Moment of My Life Essay

The morning of March 17, 2015 I was finally given the opportunity that I have been waiting for my whole life. My goal was to make it to the interview process with the Police Department. Sitting in a cold drafty waiting area, dressed in a suit sitting still and proper, I was waitng for my moment, THE moment I have longed for. So much ran through my head. Who will the panel of interviewers be? What will they ask? Do I defend myself as a female trying to work a man’s job? Then I kept going over…

My grandmother was the primary caretaker and disciplinarian for my mother and her younger brother. She also worked outside of the home in order to provide for her family. My mother has never really discussed her life growing up with me therefore I only know bits and pieces from my other family members. I know that she had a difficult childhood, but I never knew to what extent. Before I began interviewing her, she informed me that growing up was not the happiest time of her life. As a result…

The average person would not want to have a child with a horizontal identity. After all, why would you want to have a child who would have to face so many struggles in their life? Andrew Solomon struggled with a horizontal identity himself. In Son, by Andrew Solomon, horizontal identities as opposed to vertical identities aren’t liked by the family as they deviate from the norm and because of this, he struggled to gain acceptance from even his own mother due to his homosexuality. Fredrickson’s…

My Personal Salvation Testimony Before I jump into how incredible my Savior’s timing is, I wanted to tell you more about myself. I was baptized as a baby and went to Sunday school but I didn’t really love God. It may be because I only went to church on Easter and Christmas or it may be because I always prayed for a horse and never got one. While my faith has been rocky one thing has always been constant, my passion for all things Disney! It isn’t called “the happiest place on earth” for nothing…

through multiple cancerous tragedies and having a loved one take their own life, my great grandma still smiles through it all. Bernice Downs, an eighty-seven year old woman, is the most influential women in my life because of her amazing ability to stay strong and positive. She, like Fredrick Douglass, has the capability to influence others while continuing to be resilient even in the toughest times. As well as this rare quality, my great grandma and Fredrick Douglass both share the qualities of…

level than my friends and started winning awards for some of the writing we did in elementary school. My parents always encouraged that strength of mine but they never believed I could actually do something useful with it. With writing, I became an artist as well. I remember we would have art class with Ms. Naccarato every Thursday and how obsessed I was with each art project we had. Maybe that’s why Thursdays are always a good day for me still to this day. Although I was very involved with my…

of both my social conformity as well as my ignorance. After all, as I peered around the room, it was difficult to find eyes that were latched on to actual reality and not virtual reality. So what do you expect? I was a newborn teen and my Chanukah present had just arrived in the mail. I was just as eager as the rest of the restaurant to use it. So I did. It was almost at that moment, as if I was detached from society. It had been months since I had seen him, and the words flowing out of my…

My Rough Reality As days pass, I'd notice myself all alone. No one to my left, no one to my right, all alone, from left in right. It started in my early adulthood, it started minor, but now I can't even go outside without being paranoid or given dirty looks, I spend most of my time staring at the wall, thinking, if there's any hope, or meaning left to my life anymore. It usually ends up with me screaming, and crying; crying myself to my sleep, or sometimes barely getting any sleep,…

Happiness is something that has plagued Mankind for as long as they first felt it. This feeling off complete Euphoria is what humans strive to feel with every action we take. Love, Laughter, Pride, and etc all play a part in the happiness that we all strive to achieve. Humans try to make happiness out of anything they find they listen to music, watch funny videos, maybe even do drugs. People are addicted to happiness cause it is one hell of a drug and it also is a part of everything we feel good…

long, unhappy buildup to my happiest experience began many years ago, when I first started school. Even on my very first day of kindergarten, it was already clear to me that going to school wasn’t going to be something that I enjoyed. I was very shy and withdrawn, and the other kids weren’t at all interested in being friends with me. They never seemed to like me as much as they all liked each other, despite my efforts to try and fit in. The kids in my class didn’t see my quiet nature as shyness,…