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Understanding and Coping with Change
Change can be challenging
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The fears I have had since I was a little girl have disappeared with age, but the one I cannot dispense with is my fear of complete change. I do not mind change but only in moderation. Even though many anticipate the day they have to leave for college, I dread the idea of deserting everything and everyone I know. Even after understanding that change benefits me by obtaining more life experiences and developing into a mature adult, I still am hesitant. Something from within me creates this sense of doubt and I panic. I feel as though I need some kind of special training before being sent off to the “real world,” but I know there is no such class. Daily, I pray to God for guidance in my choices and life. Although, I may not be able to hear or
This affects me as a person because facing my fear and overcoming it is really hard to me because I usually don’t face my fear in person because I usually face my fear in dreams and I don’t like seeing it. I remember in the past when I got so mad and almost got into a rage mode which made me feel really bad in the inside. My sister got me really mad by doing something I told her not to do, but instead of myself getting really mad, I was able to handle my anger and not get really mad. I got really happy because I was able to overcome my fear of not getting really mad and not feeling really bad in the inside. A future fear is me not doing good in school or other sport activities. To me this is a big fear because when I do bad in swimming and school then I get in trouble by my parents but if I do good in swimming and school then my parents get proud of me. If I do good in swimming and school then it means I am overcoming my fear of my parents getting mad at
As I waited in line for the haunted walkthrough my heart felt like it was coming out of my chest. As I got closer to the front I could hear the screams of the workers and the guests. Then, I finally got to the front of the line, the black curtains blocked what was inside from my viewing which made it worse. The director told us to go in and this is the time I have been waiting for for
If I had the chance to go back in time to give advice to myself I would
It’s September of 2009, the semi-truck is sitting outside with all of our belongings in it, like an airplane waiting to take us away. Today is gloomy and raining as usual, but I know I’m going to miss it. The sun has started going down; we all get into the vehicles we’re designated. Me, my Dad, and Jade our Boxer into the truck, Mom Jaycee and the other animals into the car, and my Aunt Tina and Grandma into their suburban. It’s bitter sweet, I am so excited to go to a new city, new state, new everything, but I’m leaving behind everyone I grew up with. My closest friends who thought I was funny, not weird. Who I consider my brother, Daniel, and my mom’s side of the family all left behind. We begin driving, the truck brakes releasing
"Reasons vary as to why teachers are reluctant, but the book hits on several that I personally relate to."
Every person throughout their lifetimes has wanted to go back and change the outcome of the past. People have had deaths of loved ones, tragic events, or made the wrong choice in a relationship that was a big mistake. But the idea of the changing your timeline would be considered the “Butterfly Effect”. Scientifically it would be explained by changing the past that can alter the present. The worst thing to happen to any child is a parent’s decline to alcoholism.
It all started when Isis took control over the Earth. My bones were shivering. I was hiding with Bill and Rick in Bill’s basement that nobody knew about. We could hear footsteps. Bill was hiding under the air hockey table. Rick was hiding under the bed. I was hiding in the dryer. I heard gunshots. The door slammed.
By the time I was 13 years old, I thought I had everything planned out already up until college. I had already built up a plethora of excitement for everything I had been anticipating, so when my dad broke the news that my family would be moving, I was devastated. I wasn’t willing to leave behind my friends and everything that had been a part of my childhood. Because I had refused and avoided any possibility of change in my life since I was little, I wasn’t ready for change, nor have I ever experience significant changes in my life up to that point.
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right”
“We are moving,” my parents stated. The end of school year of 2010 and I was in the sixth grade, how could this be happening? My parents sat me and my older brother and sister down and told us the news. We were called into the living room and the three of us sat on the large, brown, leather couch. My parents stood in front of us. All at once I had felt heartbroken. Everything would be so much different.
My sister, Amanda, and I used to be very close. After all, we got through some of the hardest times like when our dad died. We were like two trees planted together three years apart that got attached by their roots. We shared some of the best memories: she let me sleep over when she had her firneds sleeping with her and I would play games everyday, last but not least, we shared a room together. Her and I were always crazy together, we just became carefree when we were outside together and made up some crazy games we would play for endless hours. I remember that one of the games we would play together is one of us would be the lion and one of us would be the antelope. We would chase each other around our front yards for hours.
The road not taken is a poem about a person who has to make a difficult choice on which path to take, whether it means an actual path or a life choice, I do not know. What I do know is that I have underwent a similar scenario in May, when my mom died. I could’ve just been sad like most normal kids, but instead I chose to quickly find ways to numb the pain, and I tried everything I possibly could, it ranged from getting drunk with my friends to doing drugs, but one day, I decided to come to school drunk, because I figured that since I haven’t gotten caught yet then I wouldn’t get caught at all, but I was stupid, I was drunk and high, and everybody instantly knew it, so soon after that I got called down to the office, and was asked to take a breathalyzer and a drug test, of course I failed both.
Very few things deserve the time you thought they did anymore. In a world of ever-changing ideals, moral compasses and economies; the world never slows down. Even in a small town community like Mineola, we can see the constant hurry of the outside world creeping in. This effect has cause a chain reaction of sorts that has even the youngest of citizens moving in a frantic pace.
I think it was at its peak from about the age of twelve to roughly
My fears although real and still there, be it below the surface, are truly leaving. I never thought that I could feel safe and comfortable outside of the nice cushy box that I made for my self in the previous chapter of my life, but I stepped out. I ventured farther than anyone else in my family ever had gone. I have conquered my anxiety, or at least pushed it back for a while. I have faced my challenges of being out on my own, and maybe even created a few more that I cannot see yet on the horizon, but for now I am making it on my own.