My Life - Original Writing 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?

At the age of about six years old, I came face to face with my guardian angel. Ordinarily, most people have fairly rote childhoods, but I cannot attest to the same. The equation of my life had many variables, with a unique solution. During a portion of my life, not only did my family and I reside in the economically challenged portion of Joshua Tree, but also, my mother had seven children in her household, all under the age of twelve. My mother, loving four kids of her own, had felt obliged to take in her brother’s kids due to their unstable home life. Bionically, she managed to keep all of us rugrats alive while working full time as a daycare provider and completing her college education in order to become a credentialed

My essay for assignment 5 was the most memorable essay for me to write. When I first looked at this assignment, I was nervous about writing a letter from my grandfather to myself. I did not know what he would say to me since I didn’t talk to him much during his last days. Instead of writing out a whole letter, I decided to just write parts of a letter and analyze each part as I wrote. I felt that this was a better strategy for me because it allowed me to compare my feelings to those that I thought my grandfather would feel.

Going to college has reminded me how much I truly love to read. It’s also reminded me that there are some books that I cannot bear to sit through. For a long time, I only read books that I knew I would love, or that I’d at least like. I only picked up a book if it was by an author I knew, or if it came recommended by someone.

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.

As I look back on the life I have lived so far I see that with every challenge or shift I have faced in my life path my music changes with it. Whether I move to sad, upbeat, or empowering music, there is always something I listen to to drift away from the world and think. I think music is important for everyone because of that. It gives people an excuse to think and to comprehend what 's going on in their life. I know if I am going through something rough nothing feels better then to rest on my bed with headphones in and forget about whatever is going on around me. However it seems hard for me to forget about what is happening, for the music I select matches the moods I am in. As I go over my timeline to this point in music, my choices seems to become more mature and more independent as I grow up. A major point in my life in which a lot of things started to shift was in 3rd grade when my parents got divorced.

I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me.

We all like to pretend that we have control over our lives. Being in control makes us feel powerful, like we are ready for anything. With everything that goes on in the world we never can truly be in full control of our lives, but the moments that we felt we were in control are looked back as good times in our lives. Of course, it’s the moments where we lose control that stick with us the most.

I was born in Ukraine, in a small town called Makiivka. I grew up with my mom, grandmother, and twin sister. My sister and I would always run to school because we did not want to spend money on the bus, instead, we would buy our mother a memorable present on her birthday. We always wanted to impress her; in appreciation of her hard work. My everyday routine was simple. In the morning I was going to school. in the winter, the most exciting was running in the snow, when cold air plucks your cheeks and your eyelashes are covered with snowflakes. After school, my sister and I would go to music classes, where we sang and danced. With our music group, I got to experience the feeling of being on the stage and singing for people, which I still enjoy. After music classes, we would go home and do our homework. My life was not easy, but it was simple. I always wanted a dog, but my mom would not let us have it, do to living in apartments. Once, when I and my sister came back from our music classes, we heard something in the bushes. When we got close, there was a puppy, small tricolor puppy; We did not know to whom it belongs. The dog was very calm, at first we did not notice anything until my sister pointed at its leg. It was torn from the rest of the body, just barely holding the skin. I immediately called veterinary and explained all situation. He told us to take this dog to his clinic. Somehow, we tight puppy’s leg to his body with doctor’s instructions and took it to the hospital.

One summer in my birth home in England, my birth mother had passed out on the floor in the morning after my father left for work. My brother and I heard a loud scream and came into the room, seeing that she has passed out. In our right minds, we thought it was going to be moderate, but soon later finding out she died from damage in her brain, causing her left side of the body not to work and to barely eat and support her other side. Her funeral was a warning of future events that started going ridiculously wrong after and I knew there was going to be a major turning point in my life, with a tone and cause us to leave and figure out problems on our journey. Due to my mother's death, an increasing amount of work was to be done to protect our future.

Today during our CALM block we did an interesting exercise that focused on opening each one of us up, and get us talking about some specific pieces of our life. To be quite honest, this was a little challenging for me, as I don't really care to talk about my life, though it was a tad bit easier as through the rotation I was paid with people I was reasonable close with so I did not feel judged. I feel as though we were to do this assignment because it goes hand in hand with the life view and work view compasses. It gets us to think about who we really are and maybe what gave us the perspectives we had on those views. Either way it was an interesting challenged and I managed to get through it, so it was okay.

I was sitting at a picnic table with a young boy struggling next to me. His hand was gripped so tightly onto mine that there were petite fingernail impressions lining my hand. He was screaming, crying, kicking up the loose gravel that laid on the ground. All because he didn't want to kill a fish at fishing camp. This was just one of the countless fits a day that this young boy would have in a day. And learning how to help him was one of the most gratifying experiences I have attained in my life.

From a young age I was always being told that I couldn't achieve what I wanted, being told that at as a young child it pushed me to be better and to prove that I can do anything I can put my mind to, and from that day on and I haven’t given up on anything, therefore ambitious is my trait.

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.

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.