A Life Changing Moment That Happened

The year was 2015 and in my mind it was going to be one of the most pivotal moments in my life. I was turning 16, getting my driver’s license, inching closer toward adulthood, gaining my independence, and free from adult responsibilities and worries. What I did not know was that one catastrophic event would have such a devastating impact on my life.

This essay is based on an event that changed my life forever. It is a passage that is mixed with feelings and emotions. This experience gave my life a purpose and a sense of direction. It allowed me to grow from a boy to a man in just one day.

This impactful moment happened when I was in fourth grade. I had a problem that affected specifically reading class, but also nearly every part of my life. The problem was never about my ability to read. I was always a pretty good reader and could read books that were above my grade level. The problem was about finding books that I wanted to read. I was getting extremely bored with reading because I was reading books that I didn't care about and that didn't excite me. So, I took this problem to my fourth grade teacher. I thought that if anyone

A life changing event for example a car crash can have a great impact on the people involved in the wreck. I realized that after my wreck I had traveling to school. I was on my way to the last day of sophomore year. I had been driving for a little under a year at the point and I knew that wrecks happen all the time and you need to be cautious when driving. I was a few block away from the school and was at a stop light, my light turned green and a person across the way thought they could turn on a red light. I started to drive forward and saw a car coming at me.

It’s all start when my sister and I went to Watson. While I’m doing window shopping, my sister went to buy some stuff. Accidently, in a glance, I saw my sister at the health section. In consciously, I went to her with full of questions, and asked her ‘are you sick?’ Then she turned back to me and answered my question with a question, ‘is this good?’

One of the most life-defining experiences that I’ve ever been through happened during the summer before my freshman year of high school. Back then, I was living in Marshall with my dad and my two younger sisters. Marshall isn’t that big of a town, merely hosting 400 residents. Everyone had a connection with one another, including my classmates and peers. We were all friends because each and every one of us knew better than to exclude another person, especially because there wasn’t enough of us kids around to form cliques. We’d entertain ourselves by endless games of basketball, storytelling, and late night outdoors games. In the small village of Marshall, us kids always found a way to have fun together.

The moment that changed me as an individual was when I read a simple book, a book filled with controversy over the message advocated within it even though it was merely the memoirs of a mother and her family. The book was "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua and it's a fascinating account of how a Chinese mother raised her two daughters under a strict, authoritarian tradition. Her parenting style was incredibly important for me when I felt like I had no agency in my life, even though I did. It wasn't until my junior year that I read the book and it opened my eyes to a new, matured me that was hardworking, determined, and willing to accept my limitations.

Growing up in the South Bronx, with a single mom, living on public assistance in the projects, I have experienced many turning points. The most significant turning point in my life was finding out that I was pregnant. I was 20 years old and all I could think about was how to share this news with my mom without her killing me. My partner and I at the time were not doing well; I was scared and I knew that just as my mom did, I too would have to do this alone.

An accident last year changed my attitude towards life . That accident had a great impact on me , it taught me to treasure what i have and to treasure those people around me more . Although the accident was not life threatening , it was still the scariest thing i had ever been through in life . It was an accident that no one would have expected and wanted it to happen .

It was one life-changing experience I was seven years old when I became grateful for the things that I had. I remember packing for this big trip my parents were planning for a year now. I precisely recall my mother telling me to go through my closet and pick clothes I did not use to give away, I didn't know why, but I didn't ask, I just did it. As the day got closer I remember my parents had accumulated a great amount of things to give away. I quite didn't understand why they were gathering so many things and for what reason.

A life-changing event is not something to be taken lightly. Throughout our lives, we encounter many obstacles and changes, some of which bring us joy and excitement, others of which may be hard for us to handle. When I look back on my relatively short life, it may, at first, be hard for me to think of an event that has truly molded and shaped the person that I am today. I have encountered several changes, but at the time, they felt like mere speed bumps along my path. Looking back now, it is easy for me to see that these changes were not by chance, but were placed in my path to form the person that I am today.

I was twelve years old enjoying my summer after fifth grade. My two cousins, Blake and Lacy, my aunt 's boyfriend, Chris, and his daughter, Emily, and I hopped in Chris 's old ford truck. All of us kids had been bulldozing down trees in the forest behind the house all day and decided that we wanted to build a tree house. We were headed to town to buy supplies for the tree house. As we were all getting in the truck there was no room in the front for all of us, so Blake and I jumped in the back bed of the truck, not knowing this would be a choice that would change our lives, and would be remembered forever.

Everyone has that one experience that makes them look at life with a new set of eyes. My life changing experience happened a little earlier than most. It was the summer before first grade. We had gotten an exceptional amount of rain in the past months even though it was summer. I did not notice, though, because summer was every six year old's favorite holiday, next to Christmas and their birthday. My summer was supposed to be like any other but it quickly took a turn. For the best or for the worst? That is debatable.

A life changing event for me was when I moved to Blue Ridge for the second time. All my life I have constantly moved around. I was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, where I started Pre-k. I had three siblings, Sean, Alyssa, and Derrick. Then we moved to Jasper, Georgia, so I started kindergarten in Jasper Elementary School. We stayed with some of Mom and Dad's friends until we found a place. Around this time my parents got divorced. So it was us and dad. Mom still visited often. Soon after that dad got with someone else, named Heather. Heather had two kids, Erika and Michelle. They found a place together and we stayed there. Then my mom took us to Florida for a year. Dad thought she was just gonna keep us for the weekend, but she stole us for a year. When we were in Florida Dad and Heather had a child, her name Was Rielley. She was born on my birthday, so we share a birthday. When we finally got back to living with dad we ended up staying with her at mom’s three bedroom trailer. There was fourteen people living in that tiny trailer. I spent my remainder of first grade in Hill City Elementary School. By the time the school year ended we were moving back to Jasper. I was back in J.E.S for second grade. Next, we moved to Blue Ridge. We had nowhere to stay, so we were staying at the homeless shelter. My third grade year I went to Blue Ridge Elementary School. I tried my best to not let people at school know I lived at the shelter, but the kids who rode my bus figured it out. We

It started out as a rather mundane day. I slept in late and started my day out with a bowl of cold cereal as I continued learning through various free online websites to keep my brain active. Nothing stood out of the ordinary for me for the majority of that day. It was neither too sunny nor too cloudy; in fact, the sky was clear blue that day. For a million years, I never would have thought to hear those three words come out of my mother’s mouth that did that night: “Amanda has cancer.” Once the words and the person whom the words were referring to registered in my mind, my brain went into shock and I subconsciously remembered telling myself that my life was going to undergo a drastic change. My whole attitude on life, my viewpoint on what really mattered in life, and my religious belief would ultimately be changed by Amanda's response to this life-changing news.