College Admissions Essay: Living A Meaningful Life

Living in a convoluted can be difficult for a person with an old soul, especially when young adult growing up and trying to figure out how to grow up and fill full their life long desires. What it means to live a meaningful life is different for everyone. Some people inspire to be rich, other want 20 kids and counting. I on the other hand want simplicity. Imagine a large field, in the center, a small house no bigger than a gardening shack. Around it are a dozen and one different flora and two dozen and two different colors ranging from bright fiery orange to deep forest green. The house brick is painted a bright yellow to match a setting sun, the roof a soft brown, and a crimson red door. It is a terribly ugly house but, in a your “child’s

Getting a strong education is on top of my list considering four years ago I genuinely believed I would not have be able to make it to college due to accumulating medical issues. Getting into my first choice college, Allegheny, meant the world to me and it was something I never believed I could do. I never thought for a second my GPA was high enough, my grades good enough, myself decent enough, to get in. I still chalk up my acceptance into the college at my extensive list of extracurricular activities throughout school paired with my sob story essay. In my opinion it is nothing sort of a

Inward desires such as happiness, finding yourself, and to know what in life you want are the most important things a person can have. Overall happiness is the most important thing to me in life. I could do without travel, education, a career, my unpleasant tiny house and exactly four cows, as long as I am happy and content. For me, the meaning of life is happiness. My late Uncle Peter had nothing but a one bedroom house, no formal education, and zero dollars to his name. He was the happiest man I may ever know. The only thing he wanted in life was to make other’s happy and feel good about themselves. One of the biggest reasons I want to travel is because of him. He hitchhiked his way to California and back two separate times, this does not include his other extensive travels within the eastern United States. I want my travels to mean something. I want to feel connected to something bigger and better than the sense of a bitter community a grew up in. Most of my family greatly disapproved of my Uncle’s lifestyle and most of my family disapprove of mine. Holding off a family and formal career path to pursue something fun and desirable, leaving home and visiting new places and not being 15 minutes away from “home base” is not well received in my family’s group mindset. But sometimes you have to ignore your families wants for your own, putting your