Happiest Moment of My Life Essay

was only 15 on the plane leaving my life behind in Texas on my way to Georgia. There I was thinking that this summer would be so much fun with all my new friends that I had made freshman year. All I could tell myself was that it was my fault that this was happening to me and that because of this my life would be thrown down the drain. There was nothing I could do to stop it after all that happened between me and my mother. This event would lead me to lose my scholarships, friends, family, and…

Jet Terry Mr. Howard CP English 11 11 October 2016 Why Theatre is Beneficial For Your Life Acting is a way to express yourself using your body as a canvas. As teenagers, we all go through tough times and need an outlet for all of our stress. Although theatre may not be for everyone there are many benefits you can take from it. Theatre can benefit your life by boosting your self-esteem, makes you more outgoing, and teaches self discipline. In middle school I was a shy kid who…

times where my diabetes was “crying” is when I was on syringes and I couldn’t get my blood sugars under control and they were just constantly hovering up in the 400’s. A normal blood sugar should be somewhere in between the range of 80-180 so I was way up there. It just felt like I needed it to play out and see what happens. I was coming up on my 2 year honeymoon ending period and I qualified for an insulin pump. That’s when I felt like a pump would really come in handy with managing my blood…

She was a healthy young lady with the brightest smile and the happiest attitudes toward this world. On one rainy day in June 2009, she got in a car accident with two other friends. One of her friends who sat in the front seat broke his leg and the other one in the backseat was fine. Everyone thought that my aunt was fine too. Unfortunately, it turned out that throughout her entire life, she had kidney problems, and only test results from the accident revealed this. She had…

suffering and sensation, people have control of their own destiny, and everyone has the right to live and die. Death is the deprivation of sensation, and after death there is nothing, nor do we feel anything. Camus’s big question is whether or not life is worth living. That each person has the right to choose whether to live or die. People who commit suicide have made the decision for themselves, “All healthy men having thought of their own suicide, it can be seen, without further explanation,…

(Duluth), Minnesota. My parents and two older siblings moved there when I was five years old, from a small town in Wisconsin, Iron River. When I was five, life as I knew it did a 360 and everything changed. I may have been young, but I will never forget the day that my parents sat me my brother and my sister down and told us that they were getting a divorce. I didn’t fully understand what was going on, but I knew that it was a big deal because we were all crying and hugging and my mom was…

In her Graphic Memoir Tomboy, Liz Prince, born a girl but likes to do boyish things talks about what its like to not fit into society’s gender role conspiracy. She talks about the first 18 years of her life while using pictures to describe her feelings from dresses, to hair, to clothing at various ages. She is truthful and forward while strolling down memory lane about the things girls aren’t supposed to do and how expectations of gender roles can play a major part in the way a young girls mind…

Never Forget My happiness comes from something I hold dear to me. I have carried this with me my entire life, even when I did not know I had it. Sometimes I might misplace it, but with a little help from others I am able to find it. On occasion it makes me sad, angry, or frustrated but more than often it makes me excited, cheerful, and happy. Any guesses? No, it is not the blanket I was wrapped in at birth. In fact, it is not something that can be held. It is something inside of myself: my…

everyday life. The way a person decides to look at life can make or break his or her career, relationships, and happiness. For example, there are two groups people can be broken up into: fixed and growth mindsets. Created by Dweck, this theory states fixed mindsetters believe intelligence and success are concrete, while growth mindsetters see intelligence and success as changeable. After reading Dweck’s book Mindset, I recognized that my fixed mindset had been holding me back from living my most…

Did your life force you to grow up? I remember being 4 years old and praying to god that I get older faster. I always wanted money in my wallet like my dad, so I can buy my own candy. I recall crying at the age of 8 because my mom said I was not old enough to wear her red lipstick. At that moment, all I wanted was to be tall, big and grown so that I could make my own choices and live life my way. My wishes did come true, but it is like the wish granted by a bad genie, he tricked me. The universe…