I Live My Life for You

Since i was 6 years old i have had two lives. One is confined to the months of june through august, the months of fireflies and bikinis. I live my summer life as a free spirit on lake Winnipesaukee NH. I wake up at 5 am, watch the sunrise, drink green tea, venture through the mountains of New Hampshire, dance in the rain, and spend days painting at the end of the dock. I swim in the lake with my siblings until our shoulders burn and eat melting ice cream cones until our stomachs hurt, loving…

“Life is beautiful and yet is not always like that”, my name is Mauricio Gonzalez born on June 23, 1995 and ever since I tried live my life to make me and others happy, though it is full of ups and downs it has many blessings and successes. In the early stages of my child hood I grew up in Chicago, though it wasn’t as luxurious as the place im currently living in, it was home and I loved being there. The neighborhood is where I spend my most time in playing my friends. The school I went to for…

Tuesdays With Morrie Final Response Some people continually lack the knowledge to understand the idea of life, while others lack the ability to face life as it is. Many people chase a life that revolves around money, creating a life based on materialism distancing them from the true meaning of life and what it means to be alive. In the book Tuesdays With Morrie, Journalist Mitch Albom flies to Boston to see his college professor who has contracted ALS, a deadly disease. During their first…

than other students. My maturation process, that I noticed during my transition from high school to college was developing a sense of personal competence, managing my emotions effectively, becoming more…

Alexie portrays life on an American Indian reservation. He does this by showing the ways the classes of people are determined and even the way the people were treated and expected to live. He shares stories from his own life and his own views.The ways he shares his opinion and story shows the determination he had to change the lives of so many. The quote ‘’ I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.’’ is one…

You grow up being told you have to go to college. Parents make it seem like without college you will not be able to live the life you want. Most of where that is coming from is fear of their child struggling. My parents never gave me the luxury of an option. I was going to college and that was that. As annoying as they might have been, i am very appreciative that i had them pushing me to become the most successful me. Besides the obvious reason of making my parents proud, college education is…

Personal Narrative Essay: Non-Traditional Hero Stepping off my luxurious yellow-orange limousine with so many of my fellow classmates, the building ahead of me now commands my attention, it is intimidating look only reminded me, this is where I will spend the next four, excruciating years of my life. Each step closer to those double doors, the butterflies that once merely fluttered in my stomach had been replaced with drums and had somehow beaten so loud, their vibrations had traveled north…

people change, cities change, priorities change, and most importantly life changes. There is nothing in life that will stay the way they are because change is inevitable in reality. In fact, it is impossible to control our lives because sometimes there could be major changes without being told beforehand. All we can do is just take each day as it comes and accept it in a positive manner. Some people prefer spending their lives doing the same exact things every day and tries to avoid change. In J…

person, I want to have a career that betters others lives. Specifically, ever since I was a young kid, I wanted to grow up to work in the medical field. Growing up, I had relatives who worked in various types of medical professions. At the dinner table, I would hear talk of how they impacted patients' lives and how the patients enriched their life in return. This created in me or even strengthened, the already existing, the want to help people. As a physical therapist, I will be helping people,…

Have you ever asked yourself, "What can I do to improve myself and my life?" Many people have asked themselves this question at some point in their lives as part of their personal development and to help them achieve their goals. Life is a journey and sometimes we can get stuck in the same position for a long time or we may even get lost. There are times when we may get frustrated by our lack of progress or insufficient progress in our personal or professional lives. This is when we need to…