How I Changed My Life

Throughout life, humans are constantly aspiring to live a successful life. A successful life has countless meanings, but it is evident that happiness and the achievement of predetermined goals is a general theme. Also, success can be realized by just taking a step back to analyze all that has led you to where you’re today. The Portrait of an Adult assignment is unique because it allows us students to discover how successful an individual adult believes they’re through an interview process. It dives deeply into the adults biological, psychological, and social aspects while being intertwined with various course content. The questions have been generated from a pool of general questions that led to a more in-depth conversation. In addition, I

I grew up in Royal Oak Michigan and for most of my life I have struggled with being overweight and having attention deficit disorder. This has led to a lot of problems for me to this day. it started back in elementary school when I was about 8 years old, I was on a children’s soccer team had a lot of friends. The coach of this soccer team was my friends Camden B’s dad, I did not really like him at all and he knew I was overweight and he pushed me further I could possibly do because I was a lot bigger than the other kids but he did not really care about it at all, Then this lead to me losing my friend, and quitting the team having to make new friends was a problem for me because of me overweight problems not a lot of people talked to me.

At eleven years old, I developed an eating disorder. The hatred of myself and body caused me to become extremely depressed. The overwhelming sadness produced severe anxiety which carried into everything I did. I neglected my schoolwork and provoked me to continually

Where do I even start? I wish you could come back and teach here at school! I miss your class and the way you teach. I hope your wife is doing better, your brother as well. I hope you’re doing okay too. When you left, I remember you telling the class everything you were going through, and it was a lot. I just wanted to let you know that you were dearly missed after you left. Many students kept asking when you would be returning to class, including myself. Even though I didn't get to have you as a teacher for a full semester, the short time I did have you impacted my life greatly. I still think about your presence a lot while at school, especially your road time sessions. Those were my favorite! I often think about what your reaction was to

There have been a lot of experiences that have defined me and fundamentally changed who I am, whether it metastasized into negativity or cultivated itself into positivity, it drove my core until the very present. Even as I continue to grow, I find myself constantly being challenged in different aptitudes, fighting against forces consciously unknown to me as a child. One experience in particular that I remember, was when I was younger I had been bullied quite a bit. It was actually several racist remarks that had made me cry home to my father, whom was no help to me at all. At the time, I would like to think I knew what racism was. I knew the idea, the concept, and that that concept had rejected my being as something not equal to those who chastised

I was always up all day searching things online like, “How to get a thigh gap,” or, “How to get a flat stomach.” I became obsessed with the fact of losing weight and being skinny. I started off by losing around 3 pounds, then 5, then 10, soon 20. I was skipping daily meals, and when I did eat, it was only small portions of snacks such as, crackers, cereal, water and juices. After I ate, I would go straight to the bathroom and make myself throw up, every time I did it, I would cry, but it felt like now that I had began I couldn't stop now. Every time I felt like eating I would think about the models and actresses on TV and I would instantly forget about it. It wasn't too long before I found out about laxatives. I was downing about 3 of those a night, the pain in the mornings were horrendous and it was quite embarrassing, but I always thought that in the end the pain would all be worth it. Nobody at school really noticed anything different which was a good and a bad thing. When I showed up to lunch every day without

In his book, ‘The Rhythm of Life’, Matthew Kelly teaches the reader to become “the best version of ourselves.” He offers reasonable tips and advice on how to do this. Though his ideas on how to better your life are sound and make sense, it can be very difficult and challenging to do what he requests at some parts. It can seem almost impossible to become the best version of yourself in the way that Matthew Kelly suggests. This unusual goal to better myself may be difficult to reach, but I know that with motivation, encouragement, and hard work, that it can be met.

Growing up, I was a timid kid who was not very fond of change and trying new things in life. During elementary school, I was with my parents at their restaurant all the time because they did not like the idea of me being home alone, or with a babysitter. Constantly hiding behind my parents in front of customers at the restaurant, I hardly talked with people outside of school and my home. When I started sixth grade, a family friend came over to the restaurant one day, and told me that I should practice Taekwondo under his instruction in his dojo. I was reluctant at first, but my parents highly encouraged me that I should try it because they did not want me being at the restaurant all the time since I was a kid. Thinking it over, I saw that there was no harm in trying something new with someone I was familiar with. Within a week, I agreed and started going to the classes in hopes that it would

Moving from place to place not much other than family remain constant and that too takes a different shape with time and makes me both accustomed to change and more importantly, prepared for it. Moving every few years is a gift and a curse, giving you a clean slate when you both need it and when you do not want it. It is always difficult to move away from good friends, teaching me to remember all those who left a mark on me .

I changed, I didn’t' even realize that I did, till now when I had to write about it. Throughout my years of living, I never payed much attention to myself, I've always been caring about others and making them smile and happy and comfortable . Looking back I realized throughout those years I've been helping others my characteristic been evolving me changing me without me realizing it adapting me to my environment. That changed made me better, looking back and seeing how much I helped others without realizing it made me smile a little.

I moved from Albany, NY to Rochester, NY before 7th grade and have called Upstate NY “home” my entire life. My father is a gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist at URMC and my mother is a housewife. I have two younger sisters (21, 16) and one younger brother (17). The older sister currently works in a Psychology Lab at Yale University. From September 2014 to May 2015, I worked as a crew member at a Chipotle. I minored in economics in college and have an affinity for the ideas of Friedrich von Hayek. If asked, I’d consider myself a classic liberal, a classification rarely used nowadays. I enjoy listening to podcasts. Most of these are sports-related; however, my favorite podcast is Econtalk. I enjoy watching movies and TV shows, but

Daddy took you took time out of your day to teach me: how to change a tire, Get the best prices on item by doing research and too drive on empty until the gas price was right. I if I can do without than I don't need to buy it. Thanks for supporting with my goat, sheep, and llamas projects. Thanks for getting all hours of the night to walk out to the goat pen when I was afraid of meeting the skunk. Thank you for helping me to castrate a goat or burn off their horns even when you didn't clue how to do it. Also remember when I got the llamas and they were due for their first worming injects and how Snotty decided she had a enough of you spitted one side of your face green slime. But you just took and went on. I am also very grateful that you

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.

When I was younger, I was a healthy weight and an athlete. I was a ballerina, a soccer player, a basketball player, and someone who could run laps around the track for hours. I started to gain weight at seven years old, when my dad left our family. I was so brokenhearted and I started to turn to food for comfort. I fell into a mild depression and any motivation I had to go out and participate in any sports was gone. Even at a young age, I noticed the differences between my friends’ and my eating habits. It seemed that they would take three bites of a sandwich and be full, while I had just finished my lunch and felt like I was starving. I turned down seconds, desserts, and snacks just to not have them look at me funny. We would sit around at lunch and compare our weight, I would lie and say I weighed about thirty pounds less