My Life

road you decide to travel down in your life, the things you accomplish, and the dreams that are reached. You can be faced with a predicament, but you choose how to react. You can either roll with the punches, or decide to get hit. Life is not an easy walk through the park. There will come times when you have to stand up and fight, or times when you should just sit down and let life happen. In my life there have not been a lot of life altering choices. My life has been pretty straight…

Over the course of my life I have faced many obstacles physically, mentally, and spiritually. From the deaths of loved ones and friends, to the mud pits and physical hells of being a Marine, the trials and tribulations of my life are many. I brought them upon myself in a way because I made the decisions that have brought me to where I am today, submitting an essay in hopes of getting into a field where I will never work another day of my life. You see life itself is the hardest thing I have had…

myself back in my hometown, broke, broken, alone and confused. In a daring escape, like something out of an old war movie, my mother had come to Phoenix and liberated me from my husband. In the dead of night, we packed up ten boxes and two suitcases, slipping away quiet as death, to board a plane early the next morning. In Phoenix, where I had been living for three years, it was warm. Warm enough, that just the day before, I had gone swimming in the pool outside our apartment with my two sons.…

have a history, when i was little i remembered living with my dad. My parents were divorced and my mom lived in a different country. When i was old enough to start school. My mom came back, i was really happy to see her. I truly missed her. She hugged me and said she had something to talk about with daddy. Next thing i knew i was packing my bags leaving with my mom. It turns out they both thought it was best for me to live in the country that my mom was living in. it had better school,health…

February 2011 my life was shattered, never to be built up in the same form again. This story is not to gain your sympathy or pity. This is simply a story about what made me who I am today. I went to sleep that night never realizing when I woke up my life would forever be missing something. I woke up to the noise of men talking. I was scared that someone was in the house. I went to see what was going on. I saw my nana and mom crying. I saw medics come in the door. Chaos. I was told to go back to…

obstacle in my life change me, I tend to draw up a blank. There have been many obstacles that have occurred in my life and it’s quite hard to just choose one that has been particularly significant. However the more I draw deeper into myself, I find that the biggest and ultimately most significant obstacle in my life has been battling my generalized anxiety disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder is a psychological disorder that is characterized by the excessive anxiety about everyday aspects of…

When people are asked to analyse their life . For some reason they always focus on their bad experiences , leaving out all the good times .Like watching a football game and screaming so loud that they’re soon out of breath all the time knowing that the television . Well that was me , I once looked at my life in a very negative way but now i look at my life with an opposite view. I remember the first day of my senior year. School seemed to last for an eternity. school had just started and I…

The day that changed my life was the day my family had seen Jim’s body for the last time. Then I realized even if I do well and protect myself things are still uncontrollable. Also, I cannot protect everyone else around me and neither am I myself invincible. It was that day that I was finally aware of death. Yes, everyone knows that eventually every living thing dies, but I thought however, for some reason this would never happen to me. Now I realize how wrong I was. Jim, he was like a father…

One of the big events that has happened to me that changed my life was when my Cousin died of leukemia . I was 11 when it happened , she was one of my best friends I didn’t really understand death until that awful day in Feburary . Before my cousin died i thought i was untouchable that death did happen but it wouldn’t happen to me or my family memebers and Serguet ( that was her name ) dying brought me back to the reality of life . My whole world crashed i was so angry and hurt I blamed…

change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realise the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realise that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have…