My Life

What is my life all about? Why am I living in a world that is a hamster wheel of birth, work and death? What is it that makes my heart sing and how could I live by my own standards? And, most importantly, why am I not listening to that inner voice that keeps trying to warn me when I’m about to do something stupid. Every few years I would find myself practically homeless, broke, hungry, trying to hang onto whatever strands of a human existence I had left. I had a hole within me that was so vast…

well will attest that the change in me throughout this experience is drastic. Theatre transports me to places I couldn’t dream of otherwise and two years ago, I was taken to a place that would change my life forever and theatre transformed to the place I call home. Thoughts and ideas flooded my mind as I stepped into the off-green colored cafeteria. Memories of small theatre camp productions popped up and filled me with both excitement and anxiousness. Knowing I had participated in some…

Issues that I have is my finances, education and my own health. All the things that is involving police brutality annoys me. I hate racism and discrimination, it gets me upset. I have finances that I care about, I recently got a new car and I have to pay most of the bills. It’s somewhat hard because I still consider myself young. Like I shouldn 't be feeling that I’m in debt. That is why I have a job, there is times in which i think of quitting but how am I supposed to pay my car off. Education…

o’clock in the morning, but falling asleep was the last thing on my mind. My heart was beating like a jackhammer and I had this feeling inside of me that I had never felt before. It felt as though my old self had died and been replaced by someone else. My entire perspective on life was thrown out the window and replaced with something new. I laid there silently, knowing that what I just witnessed would change my life forever. Throughout my childhood I had always considered myself to be a…

Missouri has been one of the most emotional and biggest changes I have had in my life. I can definitely agree to not being the only student who felt scared, excited, nervous and joyful all at once in their first semester at college. I’ve grown up in a not-so-typical family. Although my parents have been together for 19 years they have struggled in their marriage tremendously. Throughout high school, I learned things about my family that I had not known as a child, things I would have never…

As we progress through life, we create memories that remind is of the good times we had and why we became what we did. Pictures depict a thousand words, but their sentimental value can never be fragmented. The memories we create in life and the pictures that capture them mean the most to us when it was done by the side of someone valuable to our life. Prom, one of the biggest events in high school, can be scary. Especially for me because my parents never had prom. My first prom, during junior…

MY DAILY LIFE STYLE For one to establish a stress free life, one of the most important aspects one should pursue together is having a balanced healthy life style. Paying attention to the level of changes in once life over a period of time requires a full attention and cooperation of the individual’s daily activity towards achieving this goal. As an individual , it is priority to pay proper attention to my life style by adopting a measuring scale that will help to determine my…

Throughout my life, I have had many formative experiences, some good and some bad. However there are few that stick with me today, dictating nearly everything I do. I am an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist, consequently one event that I can point to and say “That has had a profound impact on my life!” is the first time I went hunting. Hunting changed nearly my entire outlook on life; I feel more connected to my family, friends, nature, and most especially God. I have had many…

values over the rest. The trait I admire most is benevolence. Someone who is benevolent is a person who will go out of his way for others because he cares so much. In my life, there has been a teacher, a friend, and a family member who have shown to me how one’s actions can be benevolent. Patricia Greene was my English teacher my senior year of high school. Mrs. Greene…

It was not until I lost everything I took for granted that I was able to find myself. For much of my life , like many teenagers, I felt invincible , motivated by status and reward to find inner happiness. I was a risk taker fortunate that most of my risks panned out. This outlook shaped a path where I got involved in all that I could possibly do. I've always found joy through responsibility , leadership, academic success and social action. This joy never lasted , later I realized that the…