Living My Life Essay

Topic (Biographical Essay): We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow?

My life has been a crazy roller coaster with many events that have affected my life all in different ways. There have been times where my life has been at its highest peak in the world then it falls down, right into a deep valley. From the time my lovable younger sister came into my life to when my grandpa had a near death experience, I have learned many valuable lessons through the rough times as well as the more happy times. When I was a young girl, my mom had always told me the same thing over and over again. I never really thought about how a few words would have a deep effect on me in a short amount of time.

People who are nostalgic about childhood, were obviously never children. Few people can remember the truth about adolescence. Their minds "censor" their memories; and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free of cares and responsibilities. Well let me say this, you couldnOt be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that many adults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. People don't remember those problems because they want to forget them.

I woke up wires are hooked all over my arms. Im wearing a nightgown with fuzzy socks on my feet. The room smells like death, it looks beat up and the yellow paint is practically peeling off the wall.

As a very small child I don’t remember too much, but the things that I do remember were seen through a child’s eyes that has made me the person that I am today and I will always have those memory’s with me until my last breath on this earth. In this essay I intend to show how my childhood and adult life to this point has influenced my life, my journey. By utilizing the adult development theories from this class I also intend on showing how they relate to my Life experiences and where I am today as an Adult student.

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.

I was born in San Antonio, Texas into a middle class, military family. My father went to the Air Force Academy and graduated with a degree in aerospace engineering and entered his required service with the United States Air Force. My mom graduated with a degree in speech pathology from the Mississippi University for Women. I was active from the moment I could walk, playing basketball, baseball, football, or just riding my bike, I did anything I could if I was outside. When I turned three my parents let me play tee ball with my brothers five-year-old team. From that moment on baseball ruled my life. My father served for 20 years and once he entered the Air Force reserves we moved to Franklin, Tennessee where my father began working for

My life as a college student, especially as a freshman, is one often filled with questioning. It was hard to rationalize how I’d made it thus far, a bulky backpack overflowing with books and black gel pens, a head full of dreams, and a list of possibilities that seemed far too endless. Now I find myself wondering about my looming future as an English major with same frequency as I question what I feel like eating today when standing in line for food at KR’s. How did I get to Southern Adventist University with these specific goals in mind? I often delve into my limited past with the role of a detective in mind, gathering evidence to paste on walls and eventually string together. My childhood was one that can hardly be remembered, and my adolescent years are ones that I can recall fondly. In all honesty, I don’t think I could have gotten to this point without the hard work that my family, friends, and others put into my growth. There are others who have suffered greatly without the love and encouragement that I received. In fact, successful psychological development is characterized by differing forms of emotional and verbal interaction from children and adults throughout the stages of psychosocial development, particularly at childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Without exposure to certain human interactions, the Stages of Psychosocial Development cannot be completed.

I was born in Russian Far East, at a controversial Sakhalin island. The island belong to the chain of islands of the east cost of Russia that is contested by Japan as their own. Around 1950, USSR was colonizing second half of Sakhalin island, as a result, a lot of young people was sent over or came over to build out the island’s economy. My parents were among those settlers. With musical and railroad engineering background, they end up serving in police force and military intelligence division - KGB. Their carrier defined my early childhood. Soviet military took our family across continental USSR and stationed us in many parts of the country such as Ural mountains and finally in central Russia - City of Ivanovo. All of that taught me to

Her (my girlfriend) being new to the school, catching my attention, as she gracefully passed me by, not knowing how pretty she is, and me not knowing her name. She kept recurring, I never spoke to her, not even sure if she had even noticed my existence, completing if I even had a chance with her, or if I was just wasting my time. As she walked into my class, that when her eyes met mine, as she looked away shyly, almost like she was blushing, not knowing how her big beautiful brown eyes, captured my attention. As thoughts ran through my mind, I noticed something that was different about her, she wasn’t your average girl, she carried herself with such poise and confidence.

My sweaty body stuck to the plastic chair as I eyed the forbidden glass of ice water. Slowly, my fingertips inched across the table, brushing against the cool surface, before they were brusquely swatted away by my mother.

Reaching for my left hand, he lifted it to his lips and kissed it. I pulled my hand away quickly. “I don’t think my boyfriend would appreciate you sitting on his seat and talking to his girlfriend.” “I know your boyfriend Ms. Loran. Brian and my half-brother Philip went to school together. My brother’s name is Phil Tatum. He still lives in NY. Do you know him?” “Yes…Oh. You are full of surprises. I met your brother at a fundraiser a month ago. Your brother is such a wonderful man.”

I am truly amazed at how this book came along in my life right when I needed it the most. For two and a half years since my late husband passed away I have literally been in a fog. I didn’t realize that it was an attack from the enemy. I thought it was me just going through a grieving process that just seem to keep prolonging itself or either somehow there was some unresolved issues in my life that needed to be dealt with. For the life of me I couldn’t seem to figure out what it was that I needed to deal with. I was exhausted mentally and emotionally knowing that this couldn’t be of God, but was just too numb to even try to do anything about it. I would try to pray my way out and even would go to church thinking maybe someone could pray this off of me, but then again, I can’t even say I was desperate to get rid of whatever this was. I was simply lulled to sleep with no fight left in me. Oh, of course I prayed the cover all prayer over my family, but could see by the way my children were handling everyday life that they needed more prayer than just pleading the blood of Jesus over them every day. They needed that warrior woman to pick her sword back up and get her armor in check and go to war on their behalves. We needed restoration and healing so badly in our lives. I felt like that when God got tired of me being in this place that He would come to my rescue and without any help on my part and rescuing me is exactly what He did by sending me this book.

"In life, there are times when we choose our challenges and other times when the challenges simply choose us – Travis Roy. I don’t remember what happened to me, I was told I was hit by a car. I was placed in a medically induced coma, for a month. Slowly, the doctor lowered the sedatives to see how I can breathe on my own, within six weeks everything was removed. I woke up; there were family and friends around my hospital bed. I was confused because I had no idea what happened. Mom and Uncle Ray told me stories about how angry I was and would try to get out of bed.