A Pivotal Year That Changed My Life

On April 12th, 2016 around 11am, my sense of security was robbed from me, literally. I was home alone, out of school enjoying my spring break, when my home was broken into. That morning, I just happened to be on the phone with my mother, at the same time a stranger pulled up to my house. As he got out his truck and put on a utility vest (posing as a construction worker), I asked my mother if the

When I was in 5th grade at the age of 10 I was fortunate enough to go on a vacation out of the country. This was a pivotal moment in my life because my family had never really had enough money to go on a trip with all of us, but we did this time because my dad saved up; we were going to the Philippines. Even though it was just supposed to be a vacation, it ended up being something completely different. During our time there, we stayed with my uncle who lived in an underprivileged neighborhood.Spending time with my relatives in that place made me realize that I took things for granted. My thoughts recollected at the church, where I really saw a different view of my dad. He was teaching in a huge, crowded church and what he said and did seemed

It was the summer that I turned sixteen and I’d just gotten my driver's license. When I first got my license I hadn’t even began to understand how much this new undertaking

At approximately 4:20 A.M., on the early morning of October 14, 2006, my family and I were awakened by an armed intruder. We were frightened and

Half way through my sophomore year, I got my driver’s license. Every teenager looks forward to when they can go driving around town. I turned sixteen on February sixth in two-thousand fourteen. Teenagers can get a little rebellious on the roads. On April twenty-third of the same year, I learned that it isn’t good to be rebellious.

There are a range of events that can change someone lives; such as, a tough divorce, having a kid, and graduate from college. But when it comes to me, an event that changed my life completely was the loss of my grandmother seven years ago. The loss of my grandmother affected me in three different ways. In particular, it changed me emotionally, I become more mature, and it changed me mentally.

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 .

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.

There are many different life changing events that can change your life. Sometimes things happen in people’s life and they can’t do anything about it. Changes can be good and sometimes it can be a terrible thing that results in a positive turn in one’s life. Change is a part of life that no one looks forward to. Everyone’s life changes at some point. Life is full of many unexpected challenges that will be thrown in your face at any place and any time. People learn and grow from every experience that they go through in life. Some of the events that have changed my life was losing my grandmother, graduation, and going to college. Changes come almost every day in my life.

There have been very few events throughout my lifetime that I feel have impacted or inspired me with such noteworthiness and that I know will change my outlook on the world and affect me forever. One of those events occurred when I traveled to Portugal, my parent’s homeland. From this excursion in 2007, I learned the importance of family, most importantly the distant kind. It provided me with a totally different perspective on the world and how large and extended one’s family can really be; even across cultures and continents. I felt so fortunate learning this lesson at a young age and growing to appreciate the ideals I was brought up with as a child. The family I have in Portugal has always been there; however, their faces have aged and

I remember it like it was yesterday, the day that changed my life forever. On March 9th of 2011, my mom was diagnosed with skin cancer in her lung. The doctor gave her about six months to live and this is how it went.

In life we often experience moments that change who we are and how we come to be. These moments immediately spark something inside of us and inspire us to change our future. As for me, this moment did not transpire until my twenties. Before this moment, I gave my parents a heart attack every other week because I was taking every class at school imaginable to try and find my little niche in this world. Until that time, I often had a different idea of my potential self every other week. I was constantly changing who I was and how I was going to get there. My “Plan A” at the time was to become a rock star and my “Plan B” was to win the lottery and to never have to worry about working ever again. Technically, that is still an option because you never truly know. However, it wasn’t until this particular day that I realized what I wanted to be.

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz my phone went across the bathroom counter! I heard it vibrate and ring constantly as I took my shower before church. By the time I got out the shower, I had three missed calls from my dad and four from my mother. At the time I thought my mother was just giving me a heads up my dad needed me or was wondering where I was at. I had sent the weekend with my boyfriend and hadn’t spoken to my father. But as I looked at my phone and realized neither one of them had stop calling I knew something had to be wrong. This is the day that changed my life forever.

The end of school came eventually, and I abandoned dreams of the sixth grade. Luckily, I was transferring to another elementary school, but this offered me little consolation. Only dummies have to repeat a grade.

May 25, 2013, a day that would forever change my life. The day that I knew that with a simple piece of paper my life would be filled with endless possibilities. On this day I graduated high school. To some this is not what they would call a milestone in life and that it could be achieved by anyone but to an eighteen-year-old, African American, female, living in a small rural town that is heavy laden with poverty, this is the most memorable moment of my entire life and somehow I imagine that this is how a Muslim must feel on his or her first journey to Mecca.