Anxiously sitting in a small room with the sound of a baby crying in the room next door was an eighteen-year-old girl pondering why she was still receiving checkups every six months. She thought she had been relatively healthy and didn’t understand why she had to keep coming. There suddenly walks in the Physician telling her for the first time about the disease that had been kept from her for eighteen years. That eighteen-year-old girl had been me. I was confused as ever on how I even got this disease and why it had to happen to me. Angrily I ran out of the room and started to cry because I thought my life was over. I thought I would never have children let alone find someone to love me with this disease. As I continued with my routine …show more content…
I was very proud of how I expeditiously reacted and handled the situation. It was then I learned that it’s about being able to love people when they are at their weakest moment. It is about serving people but more importantly serving people with compassion. I know becoming a physician assistant requires a vigorous academic performance and albeit my GPA falls below the requirement I am resolute to reach my goal so that I can help other people like me. The first two years of college were very arduous for me because I was still very angry at the world including God. I did not put school as a priority and that caused my grades to suffer.
During my educational career, I have always attended public school even though I grew up Seventh-Day Adventist. I never considered why it mattered where I went to school along as I graduated. I suppose my parents didn’t place me in an Adventist educational setting was solely based on financial reasons and time. Going to an Adventist school would grant me the ability to surround myself with people as the same beliefs and can continually push me to meet my goals. An Adventist education provides an emphasis in developing physically, empathetically, socially and spiritually, too. It provides a chance to become wiser and healthier and allows us to look beyond ourselves and serve others.
Attending Adventist University has become a dream of mine because
In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s story “The Love of My Life,” it centers around the teenage relationship of Jeremy and China who claim to be in love with one another and nothing else matters to them. Their relationship; however, is centered around what a relationship is like in movies and based of the physical attraction to each other as well as being naive to what real love is as this is their first real relationship with a significant other. The relationship between the two is great until they encounter their first real obstacle in the relationship when China becomes pregnant. The egocentric nature of both characters takes over and there begins to be cracks within the relationship. Now they face the reality of becoming parents and they blame
I continued to watch and listen, hearing doctors yelling for anodynes to relieve any sort of pain a patient was feeling, and residents running like animals trying to find something to ease the pain, like anesthesia. I began to get tired of all the crazy in the operating room, so I decided to head to the waiting room, where all sorts of people come trying to find answers to relieve their pain. Usually, the people who sit in the waiting room don’t have any sort of life threatening disease, even though they think they do. I sat on an open chair next to a table. On the table was a book titled, “The Book of Pathology”, with the subtitle “All You’ll Ever Need to Know About Disease”. I flipped through, and after about a minute of trying to read, I realized a book on the cause and effects of disease wasn’t the most interesting subject for a 15-year-old. I picked up a gossip magazine and decided that this was the more interesting choice of reading. Reading in awe of the breakup between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, I began to hear someone talking. The only person near me was a man with a puppet on his hand that was sleeping. I went back to reading, thinking nothing of it. A minute later I heard someone talking but still, the only person next to me was the man with a
What is your version of the "good life" using three aspects of life and is it the same as the person next to you? Everyone has their own idea of the "ideal life" and no two people have the same exact idea. Some may have the idea of money, clothes, and cars while another may have the idea of family, no death, and a big house. The two individuals have two completely different points of view, interests, likes, dislikes, and aspirations. My version of the "good life" is nothing like the other examples but it is okay because it is supposed to be different. Personally my "ideal life" include having enough money to sustain and be comfortable, having a successful career, and having a lifetime supply of puppies and dogs. There are reasons behind why I have chosen these specific aspects of a possible life and they will be explained in the paragraphs to follow.
I sat there in my room with tears flowing down my blush pink cheeks. Wondering what was wrong with me, as a salty tear ran along my dried out chapped lips. I thought to myself,” Why am I so miserable? What did I do to deserve this? How am I going to escape this life?” I started to ponder that this was the end of my life, this is how I was going to be, sorrowful. At the lowest point of my life, mother came barging through the door with the look of cavernous concern on her face. She knew that it was time for something to be done, whether I agreed or not.
During this time, I felt alone. My parents were at the hospital a lot. I felt I could not trust anyone. I had no one to share my secrets with. I began to hide my feelings. I plastered a fake smile on my face and pretended everything was going to be okay. I knew it was not going to be okay. If Kaylee got her heart transplant, the family would have to get rid of our cat, Maggie. If Kaylee did not get a heart in time, she would die.
One night as I searched for my mother, my dad told me she was not feeling like herself. My dad told me to let her rest that night and I could talk to her the following morning. As I started to wake up the next morning my father was sitting at the foot of my bed and informed me I’d be spending the day with my Aunt Michelle because my mother had a doctor’s appointment. I could not wrap my head around why I would not be attending this appointment but had attended all the others. Later that evening once again both my parents came into my room but this time without smiles. With a shaky voice my mom began to tell me she had been diagnosed with Preeclampsia and her illness was progressing quickly. Now with tears running down her face she continued
The following months a winter, cold and gloomy, surrounded the house. My grandmother came to stay with us since my father had fallen into depression and needed help taking care of my sister and I. When my grandmother went grocery shopping my sister would struggle with homework without my grandmother’s help. One day when my grandmother left to go grocery shopping my sister approached me, which was unusual of her since its very rare for her to come to me. Her dark brown hair and big eyes reminded me of my self when I was younger. “I’m hungry” she complained, a question she’s never asked me. My father sleeping and my grandmother away, I was the only one left to take care of her and that terrified me. I had never cared for or known how to care for someone else. All I knew was how to evaluate whether or not someone was caring for another correctly.
Within the memoirs of “This Boy’s Life, “The Other Wes Moore” and “Those Winter Sunday’s, the fathers in the first two stories were abusive to their wives. The mothers were somewhat tolerant at first then decided to find a better way of living for both herself and her child. In the third story, there was only a father, so the parent in that story was portrayed differently. The mothers in the first two stories grew up differently. The first mother was born and raised in the U.S and the second mother was born in Jamaica and came to the U.S at age 3. Although both mothers had different upbringings, and were parents during different times, their values were the same. It was important for them to show their child(ren) right from wrong. It was also
“I promise to live with you and laugh with you; to stand by your side, and to sleep in your arms; to be joy to your heart, and food for your soul; to always make you, you”(Spelling 242).When you are a kid, you don't worry about what anyone thinks. Stori Telling, an autobiography of Tori Spelling, is a hilarious autobiography about her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized -- and misunderstood -- “disinheritance,” and how she makes wrong decisions in her life, and will blame others for the unhappiness in her life but it seems like most of her unhappiness is self-created and self-perpetuated.
In the book All But My Life, Gerda shows us the life of being a Jew in the days of the Nazi war. Gerda is now eighteen years old, but she is still lacking the happiness she once had. In the latest chapters, Gerda is forced out of her hometown. She moves to the “ghetto” along with all of her neighbors. A few days pass and right when things seem to get back to normal, the Klein family gets split up. They all go to separate camps to perform labor for the Nazis. A few weeks later, Gerda finds no sign of her parents nor their whereabouts. She then is told of these horrific stories about how the Nazis tortured the Jews in Auschwitz. Gerda then receives a letter from Abek. Since Abek is higher class, he gave Gerda the option to work at their store
Prior to the interview with Mac, I knew very little about who he was. I showed up at the interviews with a few questions prepared and found that many of my questions required further questioning to get more information out of Mac. He would start to talk about one topic then suddenly divert the conversation to another topic. Through his various stories I was able to assemble a life narrative and apply some of my own interpretation to his life. Mac grew up in Burns Lake, a small town North of Prince George with a population of about 500 people. At a young age he was adopted into a family, his father was the town post-master and his mother was stay at home. Mac describes he led a life filled with pain and horror, as he was subjected to both mental and sexual abuse from his adopted father. The sexual abuse went on until he was 13 years old
The voice in my head, normally so calm and controlled, was screaming at me to run. That was exactly what was going through my five year old mind when I walked around the hallway corner to see my mother being beat to her death by my biological father, Brax Magnus. As I tried so hard to stay and defend my mom, I could not help but panic and so I ran. I ran so far until I seen a small gas station. I went inside to find a phone, but realized I did not know who to call. The cashier, seeing that I was crying and looked panic, walked over to me.
When I was growing up, I remember my family situation as extremely chaotic. I was one of eight children and my father and mother had little time to devote to me individually. Most of the time they spent trying to earn enough to support us with their meager resources. I was often called upon to act as a surrogate mother to my siblings. I felt I had little time to develop my own unique perspective and voice when I was very young. Even as a preschooler I remember doing chores to help out at home. However, this situation did foster some positive aspects of my character. I learned to be mature at an early age and gained a sense of competence because of my responsibilities. But I also was taught put the needs of others second to my own. I feel that I did not learn to value my own, legitimate desires to an adequate degree as a young girl and have only recently acquired a true sense of worth [THESIS].
One's dream and aspirations to supersede in life must be stronger and greater than limitations set forth by others. The experience that were bestowed to me during my short life has elevated me to the woman I am today. Please walk with me as I give you the opportunity to see the world from my eyes:
This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning was very fun as I grew up living with my mom’s friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get my homework done at school.