On my father’s birthday, December 3rd 1997, I was born in Colorado Springs. I did not get to live there long though. The military had my family moving overseas. This would become quite common for my family. Moving every two years or so has been hard on me. Although it has been tough, moving so much has brought me abundance of experience. I have never been one to socialize but every place I have lived, I had good friends. When I was not in the classroom I was hanging out playing with my friends spending lots of time with them. Those friends have helped make who I am today. From hobbies and interest to the way I act. Some of these influences have been negative but most are positive. The people I would consider close friends are dwindling down …show more content…
Stuck on the thoughts of life and moving so much had me in a dark hole. So much kept weighing me down and piling on. It was great that my parents had two kids when I was already in high school but that was hard on me. To add on, I lived in a city where there is nothing to do and had no friends. So my mindset was driving me down the hole. During this time I would go talk to someone to possibly help. It did not do much good because I did not talk about everything and I am a very independent person. I stopped going after my family moved back to Wichita. Then it kept getting worse, involving a girlfriend I had for a couple years. There is too much to say and described what went on and everything that happened but it took me to the bottom of the hole. While I was in the hole I was very lost and had no way to bring myself up. Through time and hardship a few things started to mend myself back together. One day over the summer I was in my thoughts about my life. On how and why I need to change. It was a realization that dawned on, I took the positive approach for once. I describe this dark time because I feel like a new person that I am proud of. Of course I still have flaws and blemishes of my past self but I will only become
The people you surround yourself with really do affect who you become as you grow up. From the things they say to the types of things they are interested in, most people will conform to the ways of their friends by just spending time with them. You may not think about it but when your friends show you something cool that they are interested in it can sway your feelings for whatever it is and make you more likely to be interested in the same thing. This influence can work in both good or bad ways. If your friends convince you to go to church with them that could be considered a good influence but if your friends convince you to steal from a grocery store that could be considered a bad influence.
Moving to Iowa Falls I moved to Iowa Falls, Iowa when I was in sixth grade. This had a big impact on my life. I was really nervous and scared. I didn’t want to move at all. I was really angry.
December 12th, 1997 was the day I was born, in South Suburban Hospital located in Hazel Crest Illinois. After I was delivered, my family and I moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin, there is when my life took a toll. Living in Whitewater, Wisconsin was a positive and negative experience. I lived there until the age of 12 and then we moved to Chicago, Illinois. Coming from a small town and transitioning into a huge city was such a meaningful process that plays a big part in my story.
Growing up, times were hard. I moved around a couple times, and never built the foundation of a childhood. In school, kids made fun of me for how I looked and acted. I wasn’t getting good enough grades. But I still made it out and transferred into high school.
It was so hard moving because I felt like I was leaving all of my friends behind. Maybe my old friends have moved on
I was born on June thirteenth, 1997, at the time 11:11 in Ridgecrest, California. My parents were living in California because my dad was stationed there for the Marines. They later moved back to Minnesota after my dad broke his shoulder. For me the thirteenth is not an unlucky day.
Belief in success In the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he highlights key reasons on how to find success. Gladwell features Annette Lareau and her study about parenting styles affecting the success of a child. During the 1990’s, Lareau and a team of grad students studied around 88 families from diverse settings. Black, white, middle class, working class, and the poor.
It was two months before my fifth grade graduation and three years from my parents divorce. Little did I know the news my mom told me that day would change my life forever. Tears came down my face when she told me we were going to be moving to New Jersey. At this moment I was feeling very confused and startled. Not only was I upset because I was leaving a place I have called home for eight years, but because I was leaving my friends and most importantly my dad and brother.
Little did I know I would look at life differently out of nowhere. I got home from my last
A hard time in my life was when I moved here. I did not want to leave my life in Maricopa, the place I moved from. I loved it there. I had my girlfriend, my many friends, my marching band family (I call them my family because they seem like it, I hang around with them so much they are my life), and a lot of other stuff too like school rank, grades, and most importantly the teachers and classmates I really liked to be around. I, when/while moving here, went through the stages of grief, or so I was told.
This created a great rift between me and the people that had been my friends. I began trying to hang out with friends but found they were always busy while I was home reading, waiting for an adventure. I had managed to keep a few of my friends and these people are still my friends today, but first I had to deal with being solitary for a while. After I accepted the way school, and friends were going to go I only faced one obstacle. Almost my entire life changed after my move, I had a new routine, some new friends, and a new way I had to learn.
Last year I realized I lost and had no friends, I started to get depressed and did not want to do anything anymore. I learned that this was a crisis and my adrenaline started pumping. It took me awhile to figure out I do not need anybody that does not need me. I learned that once something bad happens, you realize you are not alone in this world. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad.
Finding motivation to attend college is easy, keeping the motivation to finish is the difficult part. I decided to enroll in college to earn my Bachelor’s degree in Business with a concentration in Finance. I hope that the degree will give me the opportunity to apply for a better position within the organization that I currently work for. A secondary goal of returning to school is to demonstrate to my son that attending college is required for many jobs and that returning to school as an adult has various difficult challenges. I have been working for the past nine years as an Assistant Financial Officer and am highly competent at my job.
Bumping into people while looking down and asking multiple people for direction even though I was shy. Giving five minutes after each class to get to the other, walking into a classroom on my first day people staring and observing. Moving to a different town is not about the new house, it is about adapting to a new environment. Moving away from family and friends can be a tough thing to do. I had to adjust to leaving my friends and family that I loved and seen almost every day.
This event changed my life for the better and without going through that tough time I would not have been able to see the light of all situations, in reality and when I