Have you ever had something happen in your life where you saw signs of it coming, but did anything you could to help fix things? Then in the end it ended up what you were trying to fix was not something that could be done on your behalf? No matter how hard you tried, you could not seem to hold that which you were working so hard to hold on to, what you were trying to save ended up dissolving quickly right before your eyes. After what you had fought for with every ounce of strength you had, every hope you had, and every fiber of your being desiring to not give up seems to have just shattered right before your eyes, it is near impossible to bounce back quickly from that. For me, I have recently found just how accurate the following saying is…. “You never know what you have until you do not have it anymore.” When you lose something or someone you have tried to fight for through thick or thin, it is almost as though you want to give up completely and not have hope things may end up being rebuilt down the road. At least for me, I worked so hard and gave my all in order to help save something very dear to me and in the end it felt as though it were not worth it. What I realized though is that what I had fought for so long ended up being something I could not keep. As much as it hurts and pains me to not have what I fought for, so much so that I want to curl up in a ball and hide from the world at times, I also know that the hurt is in a great deal related to the fact that who I
Everything was starting to look up and I had hope again. There were multiple occasions where I’d lost it and I would find myself asking God time after time why he did this to me. My mom told me it was one simple concept: God gives his hardest battles to his toughest
Sometimes in life, situations may knock you down to a breaking point of giving up. These situations can make you or break you; but whatever you chose the choice is yours. Challenging circumstances can make you feel as if the world is caving in on you. Moreover, you must learn to push through your trials and tribulations and get back up again. Life never said it would be easy, or challenging. You must continue to keep dreaming, and keep that hope alive within your heart, and strive to become a stronger solider for the next mountain that may come against you. In life, we will not always see good days. However, your good days should outweigh your bad days. As long as you have breath in your body, you will always win the battle that’s ahead of you. The story of Lolo Jones exemplifies this breaking point, and the discouragement she experienced to doubt her dreams.
“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.
sometimes we end up sacrificing something for that. Whether or not it be us losing someone
Since my younger years I have been compelled to differentiate between enduring and overcoming. From my parent’s divorce, our financial instability and my multiple social dislocations, I had to learn to adapt to ever-changing environments and circumstances. Before my grandfather died he shared with me one of his favorite quotes and one that I will never forget, which says that, “the key to life is found by
Willa Cather once said, “The end is nothing; the road is all.” It doesn't matter how things turn out, it's the journey that really matters. That's where you learn the most and are able to grow as a person. I agree with and respect this quote, because it reaches out to those who may be going through a rough time and are in need of comfort. This quotes shows us that through rocky times with ourselves, others, or life in general, that what matters most is not the result, but the road taken to where we are now.
When I look back to why many of my friends died. I remember how they said they couldn’t handle life anymore. These wonderful, amazing, and kind people went out expecting to find more exceptional people yet, they were sadly disappointed. They went out and found a
Has a bad decision ever caused you to lose something, or lack something that you wanted? Two texts, one being a book titled The Count of Monte Cristo, and the other being a song named Viva la Vida, share this as one of their common themes. The Count of Monte Cristo is a book written in historical fiction. This book features a main character named Edmund Dantes, who has a nice life with his fiancee and a well paying job, before being placed in jail with complete innocence after being tried unfairly. The man who tried him is named Villefort. His decision at the time was purely out of personal benefit, after the note that Edmund had was going to be delivered to Villefort’s father and ruin his whole life. After escaping prison years and years later,
At some point in the many journeys we embark on in our lives, we get to a part where we feel like giving up. Sometimes we give up just before we are about to make that huge breakthrough that we have been putting so much
Throughout life struggles are bound to happen but how we react to them defines us as a person. In life we go through many struggles, problems or a “bump in the road” and they help us learn and become a better person. Recently this year I felt as if i lost everything I’ve worked for in the blink of an eye. As I was entering my senior year football season I felt as if I was prone to anything tragic happening to me as I let my head get to big due to my recent success on the field. At the time I currently held 6 major D1 offers and was looking for more as the year went on. Before I knew it, we were playing in our 3rd game
It was Friedrich Nietzschehas who said, “What doesn’t kill you makes, you stronger”. I like to call these moments in a person’s life, “defining moments”. Additionally, I like most people, have had a few of these “defining moments”; probably more than one person should. Growing up, I had a hard time accepting one of my “won’t kill you-make you stronger” moments. It was a moment of betrayal and deceit, inflicted upon by a person I trusted fully and completely, with my life. My mother.
There are times in life when everything appears to go wrong. It is like your life is stopped; at
In life there's always hardships you will go through. My mom had nothing when she grew up and she told me that, made her work harder for things she didn't have.They make a lot of people stronger,by making them work harder for what they don’t have.
I just lost a huge chunk of my life that I was never going to get back, but the world spun on, leaving me behind.
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.