Life Has A Tendency Of Forcing Change

trying to change or overcome obstacles can be damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it

“What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” (-Ralph Waldo Emerson). My parent´s divorce has shaped and influenced my whole life, with a lot of side effects. I fell into a state of depression. I learned not to dwell on the bad things in life. I found a person within myself that I could live with for a while, a kid that I could be proud of, someone I wouldn’t hate. Over the years, I’ve changed, little changes, big changes, it’s all happened, and I am who I am today because of it. Not all crummy circumstances stay awful, even though it may feel like it. I can’t tell if I’ve changed for the better or the worse, but everything starts with something, one thing. My parent´s divorce shaped me into who I am today, whether the changes were good or bad, little or big, this has changed me.

Life is what you make it as we go through life’s journey. We all have different experiences that are unique to us individually. “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” - Virginia Satir. There are typical aspects of our journey that are similar, but different; we share commonalities along the way with others. In life, we will face challenges that bring about change, which is what happens to us along the way when we are younger, and it makes us who we are when we are older. Change is the opposite

It was the first Sunday of December morning when my father asked me to take some boxes to the basement, I had never been down there, as a kid I always thought it was scary, but know as a 19-year-old guy, how could I say no. I went downstairs with a couple of boxes, but could not find any place to put them. The area was a mess, so I decided that I would organize every box that was there. While I was organizing, I notice this one box hidden in the back, so, I decided to open it. Inside the box, there was a newspaper and a couple of burnt pictures. Therefore, I decided to read the article, I could not understand much, it was an 18 years old newspaper, but it talked about a burning house with two twin babies, It said that one had been saved with no harm while the other one was rescued later on with severe burn mark. It was a miracle that other baby had survived, they called him miracle Carlos, and his brother Richard. I stood there for a second before my brain processed

On a Sunday morning of March 15 1998, we woke up super early to the phone ringing on the other side was my dad. My grandmother answered the phone her face paled as she heard the words “mom I shot myself.” After talking to him for a bit my grandmother rushed out of her room to get my uncle up and they rushed to the house to see him up walking around with a hole in his stomach. Ambulance came to get him then rushed him to meet life force. He flat lined once on the helicopter. They were able to bring him back and stabilized him, and kept him stabled till they got to the hospital. They rushed him immediately into the OR, it was around 15 to 20 minutes into surgery that he had passed away, they were unable to bring him back due to the major loss of blood. My mom soon remarried and I gained two annoying step brothers and a step dad. One step brother didn’t bother me to bad, the other one poked and picked on me trying to pick fights. My step dad had episodes where he was violent and threw things at me and my mom. I withdrew more and more until a few of my friends literally grabbed me by my arm and told me to wake up that they were not going to let me push them away

Life is an ever-changing reaction to the different situations that we are exposed to. Sometimes these opportunities for change are forced upon you, such as requirements at work, at home, or at school. Other times these changes are brought on by your reflection of things that have happened in the past.

It happens to all of us, whether we’re prepared or not. Change occurs when you least expect it and everyone changes in their own way. Growing up is a physical change. You don’t stay a baby forever, we all grow up and live our lives and life always asks different things from different people. That's all based on how we go through our lives; our journey until we reach our final destination. Death. Another piece from Anne Sexton’s Courage shows this perfectly. “It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake.” (Lines 1-3) and “you'll bargain with the calendar and at the last moment when death opens the back door you'll put on your carpet slippers and stride out.” (Lines 43-47). Life isn’t always going to be easy, and we need all the help we can get at times. Life’s journey takes people on many different paths, but their all for different reasons. Courage defines a small portion of who we are as people. We need courage on our journeys through life to help us, guide us, and lead us to the right paths in

There’s always a point in our lives where we are faced with a decision to make. Sometimes we make the right one, sometimes we make the wrong. Either way, these difficult decisions have some kind of impact on us; some good, some bad. In this cluster, authors recall tough decisions they’ve had to make; sometimes it’s the right, and sometimes the wrong. These essays talk about the impact these decisions have had on them for the rest of their life, and what it changed for the good.

When it comes to the way events happen in life, we need to realize that they obviously happen for a reason. But we need to know that it can change with a little time, effort, and even some real strategizing. We cannot rush or it can end up on a downhill spiral faster than we know.

Few people have control over the cards that life hands them, many life circumstances are out of our control. Fortunately, with a strong head and a good attitude most people are able to take the cards that they have been dealt, evaluate changes that need to be made and make them. You don’t have to take what you’ve been given, you have to work for what you want.

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” (unknown). Your life will change for the better when you get rid of the negatives or learn new things. For example I learned being nice can alter someone's perspective on life.

waiting for them to accept me once again, and when they didn’t, I fell apart

It was August 31st, 2034, I woke up in my bed to the sound of my alarm I looked out the window and perceive how nice it is outside. Later that afternoon after school when my dad got home from work he said that he lost his job due to it going out of business. Luckily later that day my family went to Nebraska furniture mart to buy a new refrigerator and my dad sow a now hiring sign. When i opened one of refrigerators there was 1000 dollars laying there! My dad held onto it for me and we went home with our new fridge. Later that week my dad got a job at the Nebraska furniture mart. My dad and I were playing outside that weekend and My friend came by on his bike, and he told me that his parents both lost their jobs for the same reason my dad did.

February twenty-third 2010 was just a regular ordinary day. I was on my way to class on this cold February afternoon, when my phone rung. It was my cousin on the other end telling me to call my mom. I could not figure out what was wrong, so I quickly said okay and I hung up and called my mom. When my mom answered the phone I told her the message but I said I do not know what is wrong. My mom was at work and could not call right away, so I took the effort to call my cousin back to see what was going on. She told me that our uncle was in the hospital and that it did not look good. Starting to tear up I pull over in a fast food restaurant parking lot to listen to more to what my cousin had to say. She then tells me to tell my mom to get to

Change can often be a difficult thing for everyone to accept. No matter how big or small, sadly many of us fear it. The worry in change can be seen evidently in that friend unsure of his future after high school, or that family member who stumbles when asked what they would like to eat, only to order the same thing they have ordered the last 10 times. From moving to another city, to ordering a different meal at your favorite restaurant, everyone will have that important date with change. The difference is in how each person decides to handle it. Some like to walk her to the door and give her a kiss goodnight, some even refuse to accept it’s happening, and some don’t even show up. I am one of those people, emailing that “I just can’t make