One thing that really bothers me is how much I changed. I used to play games all day, not focus on school, wouldn't get in serious trouble, and was very innocent compared to my present day self. There are cons and pros of my past self compared to how I am currently. I am more happy of how I am now then I am before. As time changes, so do I and I can not stop that. What’s done has already been done and can’t be changed so you always have to look towards the future and never the past. The past will not definite who you are today unless you let it. I would have never expect that I would be transferred to a continuation high school in my freshman year. It is a bad thing to many people, but I am thankful that I am sent to it because I will learn …show more content…
from it. I learn from the past, so it will not repeat in the future. In my freshman year, I played games all day, did little homework, and had no life because I did not care much about reality more than my games.
I was not in good shape either from constantly being on the computer, so that was not good at all either. I managed to pass my classes, and continued on to my sophomore year in San Gabriel High School. This year, I was more active and focused more on school because I knew games would not help me at all in the future. I joined the All Male Dance team, performed and I played a lot less games and was more alive than ever. I stayed out of trouble, and was doing well but I started to hang with the wrong crowd at the same time as well. It did not affect me as much as I thought it would. I thought it was just being cool and stuff which was completely silly. My junior year came, and I kept my grades up and thought it would be a fun junior year. It was until I got involved with an incident that completely ruined me. Not completely, but took a large toll on my highschool life. I am unable to attend any comprehensive high schools because of my actions and I regret what I did. I can not change it now, but I can only be grateful that I learn from it. I definitely did and will know how to make better decisions in the future. It bothers me that I changed from playing games all day and not worrying about anything to being transferred to another
school. I have learned a lot because being sent to independence because of a poor decision I made shows what matters and what does not matter. I will take what I learned from the past, and convert it to my future self. This will hopefully make me a better person and I hope to become one.
After reviewing my life, I have decided my life defining moment was when my family and I moved to Texas from Oklahoma. I consider this move my life changing moment because it changed so many things in my life. This move set the stage for an entirely new life for me. Moving six hours away from the only home I knew certainly called for many changes.
I realized that I was capable of conquering obstacles and working with them so I could smooth out the road for my future. With my new studying habits, and my ambition and passion to learn, I will be able to pursue my journey through hard work and determination. I now feel capable of overcoming any challenge I may face in college because of the difficulties I have already conquered. My life now moves in a way that I can keep up with and still absorb the knowledge, positivity, and other life changing experiences that I come across. My memory definitely challenged me in a new way, but I am thankful for the experience as it shaped me into the person I am
What if I could go back in time and sit down with my teenage self? The conversation would seem longwinded, and I would probably want to tell me ‘okay’, just so I would shut up. If I could shake that spaced out kid, with his head in the clouds and yell into his face, ‘Listen, it doesn’t have to be difficult! Things can be so much easier if you pay a little more attention.’ Looking back as I went through high school my priorities changed, from music and friends to wanting to join the military. The decision to join the military changed my life and molded the person that I am today. I had it all figured out back then. My plan, my approach, and my dreams were in front of me.
During Junior High I had many absolutely dire problems that were constantly on my mind. My out-of-date wardrobe continuously embarrassed me. My hair would not acquiesce to any attempted hairstyle. My parents didn't understand me, my teachers were all picking on me, and nobody really liked me for me. These beliefs were all false, of course. At the time, it never occurred to me that all my concerns and volatile emotions were "normal". I never considered that while I was going through the transition from elementary school to high school, from kid to teen, that I was creating my own world-view and that I was emotionally vulnerable to every imagined slight. There was one event, though, that made me aware of the fragile structure of my self-esteem and how much I craved the acceptance of my peers. One of my friends committed suicide.
I have positive attributes and weaknesses as everyone else does. However, since I came from Peru to America, I experienced many changes in my personality from a shy girl to an independent, outgoing and friendly teenager. My strongest personal attributes are generosity, my spirit of collaboration and my perseverance to achieve any goals and overcome obstacles in my life. For example, when I was in Peru I used to go to a hospital to help children with disabilities. I used to visit them very often. I played with them so that they could forget for a while about their sickness. At the time I could make them happy and they enjoyed a nice moment getting to know me. By helping them, I felt a great satisfaction with myself.
I grew up in a remote small village in southern China with my two sisters. Both of my parents are uneducated, raising three of us was not an easy duty. Money has always been tight, I can still remember those days we were struggling for food. The desire of food was our biggest concerns. Schooling never was the top priority to any of us, no one care much about education.
Sometimes in life, there will be some challenges or obstacles that come your way, whether you want it to or not, which could ultimately rearrange your thinking and forces you to SSS life decisions. For me, one obstacle that impacted me was in my past which lead me where I am now. I had to change households which meant I started living with my father, new siblings, and a new school environment. Although starting out it was difficult rebuilding a relationship with him, he truly became a good father figure towards me and gave me life skills in my near future. Overall, I feel like me moving away from what I’ve been used to all my life and making that decision, I can say that it benefited my life tremendously.
My parents sensed my troubles and we moved. Adjusting to a new high school took time. It was not easy making new friends and I continued to be lost. These incidents weighed heavily on my mind. My anguished heart refused to see beyond my own woes. A recent disturbing incident changed my purview of life.
Change. Change is a simple word but its action can pack a big punch. Looking back on to when I was young I have faint blurred memories of my childhood.
One event that changed me forever is breaking my back, but it gave me a more positive and thankful perspective of the world that will influence my decisions for the rest of my life. This event made me realize how lucky I am and how much worse the situation could have been.
A major event that has changed me as a person is my friends. I have a lot of friends and some of them I am very close with. It wasn't always like this though I used to only have one best friend and his name was drake. I was unable to make new friends around 5th and 6th grade because I was too shy and not comfortable. Now In my junior year in high school, I feel like I have never been so involved with my friends and have so many to hang out with.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
It brought a whole new set of challenges outside of school that I looked forward to such as transportation without a license, communication without a phone, issues with coworkers, managers, and again, time management. All of which I have mastered very diligently. Now these attributes are always used everyday in my life. It is senior year now and I am always busy with my advanced classes and sports. I tell myself,”If you can survive one week, then you can survive another week.” That has suprisingly worked out very well for me, and gets me through any rigid times. For the most part of my high school experience I have suffered due to my own negligence. My inability to comprehend my problems was extremely poor but, I have revolutionized myself to become a man and not a toddler always asking for mommy to do things. It is already the beginning of my last year and I and very proud to say I have improved dramatically. The resources I used have been right inside my head all along, and it took me two and a half years to figure that out. I have crawled my way through high school until finally, I learned to stand
In the spring of 2013, my family and I moved from Muskego, Wisconsin to Greensboro, North Carolina. This move across half the country has forever changed my life. This move has allowed me to meet people I would otherwise have never met, and those of who have had a great influence over me. Leaving behind the place I knew, and all of my friends had saddened me. However, I have been able to keep in touch with my friends through the Internet, so that part wasn’t as bad. The scariest part was getting used to a new state that was in a different part of the country, and has a bigger population. The cultural difference were also something that I needed to adjust to, as well as new living conditions. Besides the cultural difference, there was the difference
As a child, I was reckless and I didn’t really care if I was doing something that would get me into serious trouble. I wouldn’t care what my mother would tell me after she found out the stuff that I’ve done. I wouldn’t care about what anyone would say because as long as I was having fun at doing these things then I would keep doing them anyways. But there were events in my life that cause me to change my ways for good.