There are many moments in my life that I consider important. While some of those moments are great, others still haunt me to this day. I have had some bizarre encounters in my life, but none as daunting as the night that I was stabbed. It was a regular tuesday in November when I received a call from a group of five of my friends. Being the social guy I am, I told them that I would attend their outing to Greenville, but little did I know how the night would take a turn for the worse. The evening
Everyone has a defining moment at one point in his or her life. Like Tom Benecke in “Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket", who had discovered his defining moment when he realized he was on the edge of death. Similarly, I found my defining moment at the age of eight when I almost drowned in the water. It was a moment that changed my life forever and will always remain in my heart. It was one fateful day in the year 2008. It was a bright, sunny day. The sun was nearly blinding, the air was crisp, and
We all have times or moments in our lives where we learn something. We learn our life lessons through trial and tribulation, and through happy times alike. I have had several moments like this, when you learn something through an experience of yours. Some of these moments were happy moments, others were sad. These incidences are sort of like tests, and an opportunity to learn from our mistakes, or to learn from others’ mistakes along the way. One time in my life when I learned one of these lessons
Osama A. Per. 1 My Golden Moment When I was 10, my parents wanted me to get a glimpse of their old life. Jordan, a place my mom was born and raised, grew up in the middle of the once-was main town of Jordan, now known locally as the "old city". Palestine is home to my father. Before he met my mom, he traveled the world with his job maintaining the engine of a cargo ship. Despite my parents grew up very poor, they made it work. While my childhood was full of getting in trouble for
Pressure builds all around me, my head swimming in emotions and the loud thumping from my blood flow. My heart rate is out of control, but this is becoming a normal routine for me. The clock on the wall reads 4:32am; so I pull on some pants, grab a pack of cigarettes and my earphones. The world is always so quiet at this time, no one expects anything of anyone. All the cars along the highway lessen as dawn comes, but there’ll be a rush again soon. The tiles under my feet clink as I walk, but the cool
The last time I saw Dominic he was breaking a potted plant on his way out of my front door. When I heard the crash of the heavy plaster planter against the entryway tiles, I crept out of my bed like a child after bedtime, afraid of the scene I might find. I was met with a slamming door and a possession in pieces. In a moment of confusion and indignation, I drew a line in the spilled soil with my bare foot. Internally, I told myself he had crossed the line for good. Dominic had always been neurotic
My third week at Elon has been completed and I can only think of the adjustments I’ve had to make. It was August 19th, the morning i was leaving to head to Elon for move in day on the 21st. My family and I woke up at 5:30 in the morning so that we could be New York City traffic. I couldn’t sleep the night before that. Because I was nervous and unsure of what would happen, my stomach was very unsettled. We pulled out of my driveway and headed up the street. I looked back and saw my house that I wouldn’t
love eventually. In my opinion, my turn to experience that pain came much too early. But, that loss also forced me to grow up. It forced to me accept the things that I can’t change, to start taking responsibility for my actions, and it showed me that the world most definitely doesn’t revolve around me. There has been no experience, relationship, challenge, or obstacle that has influenced me more than saying goodbye to my grandpa. I was nine when the ambulance came to my house and took him
behind with all my school work. I did talk to my teachers before I left but it got totally off hand because I got distracted with my job. My job is always a distraction with my school work because I can't find time to do my homeworks. I always tell myself to fill out my FAFSA but as I said I can't find time to do so and when I would get home I would get too tired so I just get ready to sleep and my phone is always a distraction. While laying down and instead of working on my school work, I would
This is my creative essay for the Film Program at NYU. The prompt was: "Introduce yourself. Describe an unforgettable event in your life and how it changed your perception of yourself or the view of someone close to you. This event can be dramatic and/or comedic. The assignment may be written as a short story in the first person or as an essay." My one fear is that my essay is hard to understand. So any feedback on how it reads to other people would be a huge help. And also any gramatical errors