My Defining Moment Essay

A defining moment is a point at which a situation is clearly seen to start a change. Defining moments can happen at any point in one's life. In class we read multiple of stories with different defining moments. The two that stuck out to me were “ I Want to Be Miss America” and “Here’s Herbie”.

I casually walked through the park on a crisp summer day with morning dew smell still lingering in the air. Nobody is out during this time as usual. Only people awake during this hour are morning joggers and dog walkers. Of course, there was also a mother who was playing with her toddler. She catches her chocolate-brown son and tickles him, and they laugh and trip and fall together onto the floor and laugh harder. I walked by just to say hello to them as they waved back to me. I had set myself to wake up every day at this time and start running laps around the neighborhood to help lose weight. I recall running to every single spot in town on the blocks from Lang to Richland Lane were buildings in wild assortment: two drugstores, Henry Clay Frick's mansion with

After reviewing my life, I have decided my life defining moment was when my family and I moved to Texas from Oklahoma. I consider this move my life changing moment because it changed so many things in my life. This move set the stage for an entirely new life for me. Moving six hours away from the only home I knew certainly called for many changes.

This essay is based on an event that changed my life forever. It is a passage that is mixed with feelings and emotions. This experience gave my life a purpose and a sense of direction. It allowed me to grow from a boy to a man in just one day.

As I sit here and contemplate what accomplishments I have achieved over my life span I can't particularly pick one defining moment out of the many I have. You see when most people think " accomplishment," the thought that comes to mind is that the accomplishment has to be something big, substantial. Now for the most part I agree with that theory, but in that case I've never accomplished anything monumental. I mean what makes an accomplishment an accomplishment is that it took effort and perseverance right? In that case I've accomplished a lot I accomplish things on a daily basis. Waking up this morning was a huge accomplishment for me today being that I only got four hours of sleep. I can accomplish things all day, but the big accomplishments as you call them I don't really consider accomplishments, getting into National Honors a Society was an "accomplishment" by your definition but to me that was just a result done by hard work that paid off. I know I'm hard worker and a good student, but getting into National Honors Society wasn't a task or chore, but a expected result.

A moment is defined as a brief period of time. The average lifespan of a person consists of 27,375 days, that is 39,420,000 minutes (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Within those hundreds of thousands of minutes, humans have the endless opportunity to experience a moment. A significant moment in my life was when I was sexually assaulted seven years ago. For a long time this moment held a negative impact on my life. Nonetheless, this moment is also what taught me how to love myself, forgive and that life keeps going. My sexual assault taught me, one moment will not define the rest of my life.

I remember the three defining moments that shaped my identity and have had a significant impact in my life. The three moments affected my views on time, how to treat others, and family. I went to a boarding school in middle school. I changed and grown a lot in the three years. My parents did not even allow me to go to downtown alone before middle school.

It seems to me that our most defining moments happen on the most ordinary of days. What starts out as yet another day at the office or at school, can hold some of the most radical changes to our lives, and I think that is part of God’s amazing power and beauty. We could be doing something we had done hundreds of times before, in my case, playing soccer. I took a ball to the upper right side of my face, around my eye, and the events that ensued helped me to realize God’s plans for my future degree path and thus, the rest of my life.

Everyone has their own fears in life. Some people fear a certain type of animal, while others might fear losing a loved one. About three years ago, I had many fears that I still have today. Such as a deathly fear of heights, the thought of not being good enough, and lastly the fear of failure.

When I was seven I was running and someone pushed me and I fell and hit my head on a window seal and cut my head open.I was immediately rushed to the hospital and when we got there we sat in the waiting room and I was dripping blood all over the floor so when the nurses noticed they ran and got the tool to get my head fixed and i had to get eight staples in my skull.They did it in the waiting room because they said if I lost anymore blood I could have passed out.

There was not a specific moment I became me, it was more of a gradual thing. After many years of growing up I realize who I am. I know I am honest, strong, and sometimes I take things too literal. I know that I am still growing up and I have not completely became who I will be, but this is me now.

What defines us as who we are as a person? What is our defining moment that truly shapes us to become who we are? I believe it is how we conquer our hardest moments. It is how we rise above the struggles that brought us down in the beginning. These hard moments come at a blink of an eye and are no easy task to overcome. My hardest moment happened when my sister was in a car accident, leaving her a quadriplegic. Times became tough for my family, as everyone's roles were switched. I became the caretaker of her and my younger sister. My father became the sole provider, while my siblings had to step up and help manage the farm. The years following were difficult. Days were spent traveling to and fro different hospitals, hoping she would regain

I haven’t experienced failure at work or elsewhere for a while now but when I first started working at Caribou, I had failed at so many things. Caribou was my first real job, that wasn’t an internship. It’s a pressure-filled job that requires you to able to make drinks quickly and accurately. To do that you have to have the recipe of all the drinks memorized in order to move quickly. The first few weeks were hard because I hadn’t memorized all the recipes yet and, therefore, wasn’t able to move quickly. However, after a few weeks, I picked up speed. I was able to make drinks (both hot and cold) quickly and accurately. The bad thing about my new found confidence as a barista was that when a rush hit, I was confident I could handle it. The morning rushes at Caribou are fast and never ending.

In my life I believe I have had multiple defining moments with both a mixture of positive and negative ones. But I am going to write this assignment on the one I think has had the biggest impact on my life and on myself. I believe my most defining moment is when I chose to try out and then made one of my high school dance teams, The Eden Prairie Pom Squad. I believe this to be a life-changing moment for the reason that through being on this team I have learned so many life lessons that I carry with me every day, I have also made lifelong friends through being on this team, and it has helped shaped me into the person I am today. Through being on this team I have also learned leadership through being a junior captain and then

Many people influenced and events my reading and writing development throughout my childhood from my mother, my elementary librarian, and Sesame Street, to getting my first pair of glasses. We all have defining moments in our lives where we can look back and say, “That moment changed my life.” This is the story of the defining moment that changed the way I read and write, and I learned it from a whale!