and her sister]. For me growing up I couldn’t fathom the thought of being told who to get married to." Singari knows herself but she doesn’t push her beliefs onto the people around her. "I had best friends who were getting married to people they had never met. I think my take on the whole arranged marriage thing is it’s very personal. I think the success rate, if you want to call it that, is equal. I don’t think there’s a single answer." Singari and her husband moved to Chicago, where their son was eventually born. After about 4 years in Chicago, Singari’s husband’s company was bought, and he got offered an amazing position to work at the New York stock exchange. Singari’s job did not continue…
story, made upon my death. I'm Sam, 14 years old. At 14 I had the most awkward phase, the most embarrassing. I wanted to be in control, to be weird but it be worshiped. And since I wanted that now I’m dead. And if you're reading this it's can only mean two things. You're alive and this is me writing in the afterlife. Don’t think, Don’t think, Don’t think……. Ewe what is that smell? “ Okay, forget this I can’t do it!” said Mike. Mike was my best friend since first grade. We’ve grown up…
My Worst Nightmare The nurse leader that I chose for this interview is a rock solid emergency department nurse that I worked with over the last two years. I chose to interview this nurse, because she is the reason I have decided to base my career in the ED. When I first started in our small rural ED, this tiny British woman walked over and introduced herself to me as "I 'm Gill, your nightshift Clinical Coordinator - aka, your worst nightmare". To say the least, I was absolutely terrified of…
first time that someone I knew had died and it hit me very hard. I remember going to school and just sitting on the couch there, crying for hours. I didn't cry again until the day before her funeral. I come from a family of drummers and we were drumming to celebrate her life; I sat there, curled into myself, crying the hardest I had cried up to that point. After that I fell into a deep, dark depression. I barely spoke, rarely ate, never laughed, and the oddest part for me, I refused to listen…
As my father called me into his office and by his tone of voice, I knew a difference was going to be made in my life. As I walked into my father’s office I saw my brother sitting there in tears and I started shaking. It was at that moment that I knew my whole life was going to change My father went on to tell me how my brother had made a decision. “Nick, your brother has something to tell you.” I already knew what was going to be said and I began crying. The tears wouldn’t stop falling I…
toughest thing I have ever faced was losing my best friend Dylan. He was like a brother to me, and sadly he passed from a drug overdose. That one life changing event did so much for me as person. For the first time, I had actually lost someone I was close to and loved. This was undoubtedly the hardest situation I have ever been through but it helped me develop as person. It taught me how to deal with death; it made me stronger as a person, and it also taught me to value my life. I will always…
The year 2015 was one of the hardest years of my life, the reason being is because my bestfriend decided to commit suicide and no could believe it from the type of person he was. No one in my town could believe what he had did, not only that but because I was so close to him it was a huge step in the wrong direction for which I was headed. It took months upon months for me to get back to somewhat normal, I had to overcome what he had did and learn from what he had did. It was one of the worst…
When I was in the 6th grade I had a very big decision to make. My mom had just gotten a job as a principal at Oliver Middle School in Broken Arrow. I had to decide to either stay at my home school or switch schools and attended the school my mom now worked at. This was a very difficult decision and is one of the hardest challenges I have faced. The beginning of middle school is a very exciting time for many students. You are finally out of elementary school and feel like you fit in…
I use to ask myself, who am I? What are the character traits that make me, me? What is it about me that proves I am unique? Still, to this day I do not know who I am. However, I do know that I am becoming more aware of the person I will soon be. I am becoming a bright, confident, energetic, independent and focused young woman. All of the fifteen years I've been alive, I have had to make sacrifices, hard decisions, and get through hardships independently. In the seventh grade, I trekked for the…
one of the hardest lives to live. Through all of her life she taught me how to be persistent. To press on through life’s many struggles. Then she taught me how to let go of negative people, ones who do not value you and tear you down with slander. She taught me to not go back to people who hurt me, or to at least not take it lightly. After her second breakup she taught me that it is okay to be alone sometimes, and that I can make it through struggles by myself even when I do not have someone to…