How Has Moving Impacted My Life

There has been multiple things that have made an impact on how I act and who I am as a person. People in my life are the main thing that has impacted me so far in my life.

When humans reflect on their lives they often categorize things by their location at the time of the event, grouping their college experience separately from their hometown high school experiences. This association with place causes us to view an unwanted movement as an attack on our personal way of living. I first experienced such an affront when I was in the first grade, my family and I moved to a small town about three hours away from San Angelo. My father wanted to be closer to his aunt and uncle so he seemingly forced me and to tag along for the experience. I didn’t want to move away from my grandparents or my friends, the thought alone would cause me to cry. I had to leave behind all my friends, my family I

It is a little difficult to think of an event or experience that is going to influence

“Why do we have to go?” I asked. My mom had just told me that we were moving to Jackson. Just thinking about moving made thoughts race through my head. What will happen to my life? What about my friends? After moving, I gained three life skills; relationships, creativity, and humor.

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.

Moving is one of the top three most stressful events a person could go through in life, according to studies. For a lot of people, moving somewhere else might be just like a dream come true, but for me, this is not the case. Regardless of how great the new place might be, I fail to see the positive side of it and I only think of the people and things that I am leaving behind. My family and I have been moving around from place to place for the last 5 years non-stop. Goodbye has become so common; I cannot bare the pain of it much longer. I feel as though I have experienced it more than enough, and an outsider would probably assume that I am already used to switching schools, moving into a new house, and making friends, but I am certainly not. However, in time, things always get better and everything else just falls into place. Moving has helped me understand that patience and time will bring me the happiness and opportunities I was searching for from the

As I had moved more and more, the concept of moving became easier to me. Although the situation was still upsetting, I managed to survive. That being said, I had to take a different approach to the issue of moving. I had to change my attitude in order to get over this ordeal that was going on. Instead of focusing on all the negatives, I had to focus my brain on all of the positives of living so far

Sometimes all it takes is the influence of a single person or event to change your entire outlook on life. For me, that life altering experience was the Colorado Leadership Retreat in the summer after sophomore year. Going into the trip, I never could have imagined how much my life would be changed by a single week in the mountains. This experience largely impacted my life, and shaped me into the person I am today by granting me three beneficial traits: honesty, confidence, and courage.

This move is the hardest one so far. I can’t remember our other moves, so I didn’t know what to expect. My life might change. I don’t know what North Carolina is like. We are moving due to the fact that my Dad’s fellowship is over. Also, moving is just the start.

Every moment in my life has impacted me and shown me how I should run my classroom. Spending many years struggling in school, no one helping me or trying to figure out what is best for me to get the best education I can showed me what I do not want for my students. This struggle has shown me that every student is different and has a different way of learning. This allows me to learn my students strengths and weaknesses and play on them to help them receive the education they deserve and succeed. Being exposed to so many different people and cultures through travel and attending an international school has allowed me to see how other people live and work and given me insight to other cultures and how to be sensitive to their culture and traditions

I didn’t expect this ever in my entire life to move. I think of my cousins moving; they moved from Chicago to Pittsburgh and now they would soon be moving to Tampa. I wonder from where we are, Huntley, Illinois, to Jacksonville, Florida? That’s so far away. Why? When? There’s just way too many questions to ask. I don’t know what to think or what to do. I’m absolutely speechless. I was looking forward to going to high school with all my best friends and spending the rest of my younger school years before college with them all. What about family? I can’t leave them all behind either. We’d leave all of my Dad’s side of the family back

9 houses. 3 states. 6 cities. Over the last 17 years of my life, my family's values and beliefs as American Muslims led us to move several times. This experience shaped my character, created my sense of home, and strengthened my identity. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and after a year my dad got a job in Reston, Virginia. In Virginia we moved three times, after which my older sister started attending a religious private school in College Park, Maryland. I switched to this school as well, and for a year family commuted from Fairfax to College Park everyday. With my youngest sister being only an infant, and the traffic on 495 being unforgiving, the drive was difficult and exhausting for my parents. However, we continued to attend the school because of the importance my parents placed on raising us in a religious environment where we could be proud of our traditions. This allowed me to gain pride in my religious identity. The cause of moving also impacted me.

I believe that moving has highly influenced my outlook on life as well as the choices I make today and will make later in life. I have called 4 different states home, attended 5 different schools, and have experienced many different groups of people. I believe that the different cultures I've lived in and different people I have met have directly impacted my attitude. I would say the closest analogy to moving is the Chameleon. Everytime you move you have to adapt to your surroundings.

You always have your best friends growing up, but losing then makes our feel lonely. I was five years old when we moved for the first time. I wasn't in school yet so I had new friends. Moving can impact your life, especially when your older, and I have experienced this.

Something important that has happened to me was when I moved in with my grandparents. Moving in with them has changed my life in a huge way because I have a better education living with them and I get to do a lot more things with them than when I lived with my mom. Living with my grandparents will affect my life in a positive way. I will be able to have a good job that I enjoy doing and I will have a better education than if I lived with my mom. I say this because if I lived with my mom then I most likely wouldn’t be going to school.