My Life

from is a combination of happiness, sadness, and terrifying. I have my family who protects me to be safe and untouched. My community is vice versa, that is what's terrifying. I have a job, it teaches me how to grow up. Then, school is the most important part in my life. My world has opened my eyes and shaped my dreams and aspirations. A College degree will enable me to reach my career goals, for all that I am aiming for. This is my world. This world I live in, this world I call mine, I feel…

In my family life, as an individual I have had to face a number of struggles while establishing my independence. There were times when I preferred to move away from my family and distance myself from them but at other times I wanted to experience emotional closeness with them. Over the years though I feel that I have moved closer to striking a balance between these two contradictory needs. My family consists of four members at the present. These include my parents, me and my grandmother. My…

and family about what you faced, in my case the challenge I faced changed the way I think about beautiful things, and about my life. How can something so beautiful be so treacherous? I was so happy enjoying my day, but within seconds…pure joy turned into fear. It was a beautiful day spent at schliterbahn, but hours being in the same placed bored me. I asked my brother for permission to go to the island, since it meant just crossing the bridge and there it was. My brother said no, but I refused…

Six Pillar Essay My goal in life is to create a healthy and fundamental support beam that helps people who are in dire need of assistance. Caring is letting things matter to us, including other individuals. It means acting with attention and valuing their well-being. I feel like I have paraded this quality well during my high school experience, and my real world experiences. As teenagers we have many nights where we spend our time on our computers on our social media pages. It is easy to say…

Throughout our life we go through adversity, we go through it every day, every week, every month and year. You can't avoid it. An interesting quote I found is “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that a plane takes off against the wind, not with it” -Henry Ford. This quote is saying that, if you're having a tough time in life, fight it, you’ll overcome it. I choose this quote because the man who made it was a very rich inventor, he invented the first car even though he had…

large mud puddle, and became a wonderful lake in my eyes. Ponds are like a snowflake; each one is different. My pond is magical by the way it can change my day by the catching of a fish, teaching of life lessons, and the most important thing, the bringing of my family together. My pond or magical get away, has been part of my life for six years. My magical place has fulfilled my life with wonderful memories and opportunities. My pond has brought my sister Mikka and I closer, from not talking to…

of life, because pure happiness does not come easily, nor does peace of mind. After several years I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s important to always have a bigger picture in mind. We hear the miracle stories of humans who have overcome their circumstances and met obstacles with triumph, however, I believe humans have forgotten how remarkable we really are and how every day we are faced our own personal circumstances and continue to face our barriers in order to survive. In my own life, my…

attending my first semester in college. I look forward to getting good grades, opening up my mind to new things, and eventually graduating. However, I have absolutely no idea what I want to be doing in the future. My indecisiveness is so intense that I change my future career every other day. At this point in life, my family, advisors, and professors are telling me that I don’t need to know what I want to be doing for a living, yet I feel that I should know. I don’t want to be wasting my time by…

Through this trajectory of learning to be … while making and doing… I have always been more attached to the effort of trying to meet the needs of the artist as a person. I have learned that the art can survive only as long as the artist does… and my life in art and design began by serving those vulnerable creative communities who were tenacious enough to withstand the colonial legacy of destruction followed by our own apathy and indifference towards homegrown talent. I took a decision NOT to…

To describe my life, I would have to bring up a thousand times the same word: Challenges. Each one of us faces them in our own different contexts, even if we are the causers of these as consequences or not. In my case, things started to get rough by the time I attended middle school. I was the 3rd born of a mid-class family, our livelihood was decently good, until we coped with a financial crisis. It was a difficult time and I struggled to remain poised, because of course, being tight on money…