Importance Of My Transient Life

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Throughout my transient life, I have come across plenty of obstacles to the point where I believed the world despised me and was out to destroy my spirit. While in reality within every barrier was a surreptitious life lesson that could only be seen only through further scrutinization. In the end, the adversity of life is what makes life aesthetic because one cannot appreciate things going good if they never went bad. I believe the most important lesson life ever taught me was to live in the moment because things happen for a reason, so have fun, and make new experiences. I want to make the most out of life, I don’t want to be one of those old people who looks back at the days when they were young and have exasperation because of the chances that weren’t taken. I …show more content…

I was depressed due to numerous family issues and my first tragic heartbreak. My depression had led self-pity, I had regretted everything i’d ever done in my life. At night i’d ask myself, “why do so many bad things happen to me?”, then cried until I fell asleep. This went on for months. I eventually saw a counselor who asked me the single most important question of my life,”What are you doing to improve in your life?”. I was much too busy hating my life that I hadn’t focused on how much time had passed since I’d felt happy, therefor not working towards changing it. What frightened me once I had got better was how much time was wasted living in self-pity. What I took from this experience was to make the most of everyday. I crave adventure and new experiences. I am not a person whose life is fortuitous, I simply strive to be better, and when something goes wrong, it’s ok, it’s ok and it happened for a

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