Kairos Retreat Essay

Transitioning from middle school to high school now college. Hardships and victories I have experienced it all. I have gone from the shy student to one of the most involved and active student in my school.

I can’t believe it is already time to write a Kairos letter to the youngest of my 3 daughters. Your high school years have flown by. Sometimes it is difficult for the youngest to carve out a unique place in the family and stand out in their own right. However, this is definitely NOT the case for you, Maria. You are remarkable. Your strength, resilience, self-acceptance, and intelligence are unparalleled amongst your peers. Although life has thrown you some physical curve balls, you have met each and every challenge with courage and perseverance. When others might have thrown a tantrum, felt sorry for themselves, or relied on others to carry the burden, you have brushed yourself off, gotten back up and moved forward. Although your determination

So when being asked to discuss an event that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood, this is the story I want to give. Before this had happened I didn’t have a job and wasn’t responsible enough to even think about having a job. But when it did happen it showed me that I had to make that transition in less than a week to get ready for the job I had been dreaming about every time I went into that store with my grandmother as a

In the past year, a lot has changed for me. I lost a grandfather to cancer, then a month later an uncle to a gruesome semi accident. My grandmother on the other side of the family barely remembers me due to alzheimer's, and my mom lost her job but is now working over 1300 miles away in Florida. If someone would have asked me at the start of my Junior year what I expected to happen, I wouldn’t have listed any of those. As anticipated, it was not easy dealing with a downfall of events like that, but the way I was raised helped me cope with it all. I started out at a small private school, where Religion was just as important as Math and English. How we were to act was drilled into us, and after I switched to public school, there was a noticeable

for a whole year grew in ways that i wouldn't imagine mostly mentally seeing the world different, and how people really are. I read a lot of books that i could relate to made sure i kept

Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

Every individual comes to a point in their lives during which they reach a tipping point between adolescence and adulthood. I happened to reach that tipping point when my mom told me the story of how our family got to America and to the position we are in now. Before I heard this story, I used to complain about small issues all the time, and take important things for granted, but after hearing the story, I am extremely thankful for how we are living and all that we have. I felt like a changed man due to my family's past and it gave me unbelievable amounts of determination to work hard and to become successful in the future, not only for myself, but also so that I could make sure my family would never be in that situation ever again.

This is my complete and honest truth. Personally, I feel like my most significant mark of adulthood occurred as a string of events following the last day of junior year. I expected to experience an average teenage summer, sleeping in late, watching my favorite shows, going to the fair, hanging out with friends… all that good stuff. Instead, I spent the months of June, July, and August as a visitor in a variety of hospitals and treatment centers. My mom has battled severe alcoholism for several years now, but last summer was the time when everything just collapsed. I felt forced to grow up because being mature was the only option when my mom needed help.

An experience that has provided me with the most growth as a person is my involvement in mentoring an at-risk teen in Athens, GA for 3 years. Mentoring has improved my leadership and interpersonal skills. It kept me accountable to living at a higher standard in order to be a positive role model for another person. I also developed a greater appreciation for diversity from spending time with a person from a culture much different from my own. Overall this experience instilled a passion for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, social status, gender, or age. A genuine interest for others motivates me to learn more about human behaviors and pursue a career in counseling. Another experience I have that has provided me with opportunities to grow and improve is my experience as an intern at Jay’s Hope Foundation. The Jay’s Hope Foundation offers many different avenues of support to children diagnosed with cancer and their families. I was able to be in direct contact with families facing life-threatening situations. It was a very emotionally heavy internship, but I learned so much and was encouraged by the resiliency of the children and families. At Jay’s Hope, I learned the importance of teamwork, I developed flexibility, I became more organized, and I gained more confidence in my ability to

Every week or so in AP Composition, we are asked to write about a certain topic in an essay. This week, the topic was to write about something happening to us that was affected by kairos, which is the timeliness of occurrences. However, I could not think of anything timely in my life that I could write about, so I chose the essay itself, and how I did not want to write about this prompt. I feel it was a good idea not to write about kairos due to the lack of ideas, the paper not being required, and that it would most likely not be graded.

The teacher arrived and led the disciples into the Verriad Forest. In the Verriad Forest, innumerable plants and trees grow. Among those, only half had a name and a quarter of those with a name had known effects. The Zestential disciples only explored the nearby area, after all, deep within forest lived giant beasts and monsters. It was told that the mightiest of the monsters can destroy a town alone.

For as long as I can remember I’ve had the same group of friends, but coming into high school I met a lot of new people. I met some of my best friends here and my boyfriend.I’ve reached out to a lot of different people I didn’t really expect to be friends with. I learned that you really can’t judge a book by a cover and that probably sounds cliche, but some of the people I thought I’d never get along with became some of my really good friends.

This event really helped me be more independent and more mature by having to take care of the things that I had

However, all of it was worth it. Meeting new people is most definitely the most amazing experience someone could have. As I started working in Boston, I became closer with coworkers. I slowly began to get to know them as time went on. I met a thirty-four year old man named Corey. He is a barista at the coffee shop i work at. Someone would probably be thinking something stereotypical like ‘he's not smart because he's thirty-four and still works at a coffee shop’. That’s where they're wrong. Corey actually ended up with almost a perfect score on SATs and straight A’s throughout high school. He’s one of the reasons I think twice before judging someone. I also met a young woman named Claudia. She was originally from Romania and can speak fluent romanian. Everyday she would teach me more and more words in romanian. Everytime she spoke to me she would hold my hands with happiness. There was never a day where she wasn't smiling. I later found out she left Romania because her boyfriend had cancer and she needed to get away for a bit. She is the reason that even when I feel like my world is crashing i still look at the positive in

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.