Reflective Essay About The Great Journey

It has been an eventful four years here at Christopher Dock. I went through a lot and I am proud of who I am becoming. I am not the shy, quiet and awkward kid that I was coming here but instead, I grew into a kind, confident and selfless individual ready to take on the world. Thanks to the adversity that I went through, I was rewarded with what I desire the most in this life: God, Friends and Family. The adversity that I had go through was letting go of my past, restoring my lost faith to God and stop being dependent onto my brother Tyler. Without those three groups of people, I would not be where I am today. Now I would like to reflect on my growth throughout all of these four years.
I was uncomfortable during my first year here at Christopher

Grega, I was struggling to think of something but soon I saw a feather fell from the sky and it landed right near me. Right before it flew away, I grabbed it and I began to write the poem known as “The Great Journey” which was about a feather that fell from the sky and about a boy finding the feather only to let it go. After I was done writing the poem, I was surprised with what I wrote and handed it in to Mrs. Grega without thinking much of it. The next day, she came up to me and told me that my poem was impressive and it is going to be on Dockunet, the school newspaper. When I heard that news, I felt proud of myself but later, Mrs. Grega told me it might be published in a book which me made me ecstatic as I never thought my writing was that impressive. At the moment, I realized that I should write poetry as a hobby since I enjoy it and that I will always put passion in my work as it should be the best, not the

When somebody thinks of the word faith, they would probably think of devotion towards God or to another religion. However, I like to think faith means complete and total trust onto someone or something. While I do believe in God, I never had faith as I whenever I tried to trust God with something, it would not work. One day, I tried to have faith in God just to see what would happen. To my surprise, everything I wanted in that day happened like the teacher not checking homework to finally getting a job. At that moment, I realized that I should have faith in God as He didn’t have to place me on this earth and I shouldn’t disregard him as a beast of burden. When I finally implemented all of my faith in God, I placed my faith onto others as I realized the people that I hang out with are good people and I shouldn’t abandon them like other people did to me so long