Personal Narrative Essay

No Media, New Me No text messages, wifi, or status updates in almost an entire month and I never felt more free and intact with the world. It was my first time being out of the country. At first I was nervous about not being able to use my cellphone. I panicked at the thought of not knowing what my friends back home would be up to during my European adventures. How will I post photos? Or tweet about the places I’ve seen? I was so sure I was going to miss out on so much without the use of my…

Standing under the familiar radiant heat, the gentle glow on my skin reminded me of the many summers I spent being complacent in Washington. However, surrounding me were kids from numerous families who knew nothing about complacency. They were always moving, always multitasking, and always working; I wondered how migrant farm worker families coped with such a restless lifestyle compared to mine. For the past four summers, I traveled with the St. Anthony Parish youth group on mission trips. Most…

Fighting Myself Can you imagine living everyday feeling like you don’t belong? Like you don’t have a place in this world. Like everyone is against you. It can feel as if your trapped in your own mind. It’s the feeling of being alone and feeling sad and mixed with so many other emotions, it’s overwhelming and it’s very common for women, most of us hide it and pretend to be the opposite of what we feel so we can get through our tasks. Some don’t even want to get out of bed and don’t know how to…

Determination in the dictionary is defined as a quality that makes you continue trying to do or achieve something that is difficult. To me the definition of determined is pushing through the adversity in life that I face each day. I choose the word determination not only for the denotation of the word, but also the connotation the word has. I feel that determination has a very strong meaning behind it of grit and the will to persevere through any roadblocks, which led me to choose this word.…

communication skills is to listen more clearly, write things down, try to be briefer yet still stay specific and read over anything I write. I feel that if I work on these few things, I can better my communication skills. • The student’s sense of personal self-esteem and how she/he proposes to develop a stronger self-esteem?…

fear that this book would take a long time and I would spend most of my day writing or thinking about the book. This could be a big distraction to my work life because I wouldn’t have my priorities together. This goal is important to me because it’s personal and something I been thinking about my whole life. If I achieve this goal I would be happy and feel like I accomplished something. I been working on this book since the age of 16. I will accomplish this by publishing when I am…

Happiness is a short term feeling people endeavor so hard to achieve. Within a few days interval the feeling evaporates to set another quest. The circle of life is a vague web endowed with the omnipresence of happiness and sadness. People continue stepping on each phases several times to encounter these universal realities. A broke man craves to have his pocket full. Money is his God and criterion of happiness. With fulfillment of this dream the full-pocket lad enjoys the unique moments of…

Life is simply perspective. Some say that you have your whole life to do something, while others will argue that life is short and you should enjoy it to the full extent of it’s worth.You can look at something as exquisite, or atrocious. It doesn’t change what it is, but it changes your reaction to it. No matter how sure you are about the morality, someone else could view it differently. Above all the small things you must interpret every day, there is always that major moment. That is buried…

I think that everyone will experience a traumatic event in their life which will cause a division of their life into a before and after. However, I do believe that everyone that experiences a trauma will be scared. I have experienced many hurdles and have had my share of trauma however when I began to open up and recognize that these are not setbacks but rather the chance to accept and learn from these experiences I saw growth within myself. Through counseling as a young woman, I realized that…

A Nutritional Journey Nutrition is a required course for all those students who wants to become a nursing. In the present course the student are challenged to prove their their knowledge as well as their motivation and travel along the different perspective of how we can improve our health status and the people who is around us. During the journey the students were able to go through the different activities that were assigned and catch the essential knowledge of each assignment for later…