The Importance Of Life Changed My Life

My life growing up was everything a kid could dream of: playing outside, having a ton of friends, and even eating whatever I wanted. What kid doesn’t want that? This is something that has changed my life completely. This is when I was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes.

I never thought that I would ever have to fight a gummy bear at a tender age of thirteen. However, as surprising as it might sound I did. How is that possible? I am a Type one diabetic, and since my diagnosis, my life had a 360-degree change. I had to learn how to tame my diabetes little monster which over time became a teacher of patience, time management, and goal setting. After a while, it also taught me to be confident and never take anything for granted in life.

Many mammals may know a lot about life, but many don’t live their lives to the fullest. If they did, many people would change how they do things. In the 1900’s there was a man named Morrie Schwartz, who suffered through ALS, which is a disease that slowly weakens the body. While he was slowly dying, he wanted people around the world to know to live their lives to the fullest so they don’t have regrets later on when they are close to dying. In the memoir, Tuesday with Morrie, Morrie teaches people to live life through accepting death, not being afraid of aging, and valuing money less.

My life has been a roller coaster. I have learned so much life lesson is just 23 years of my life. Some of them is that not everyone will like you, treat others the way you want to be treated, everything is possible. By the end of this paper you will learn about my struggling past, my life of the present and future I am working to accomplish.

When my family and I found out that I am diabetic, it has changed my life. Now I have to figure out how many carbs I am going to eat and I also have to watch on what I drink. When we found this out, I thought this was going be the journey of my life. I was just hoping that things weren’t going to get any worst than it was. The first day of arriving to the hospital it was just about sunrise and the streets were crowded and it was also very cold. I got my bags in the room and laid back and watched tv about every hour a new person came in and checked up on me. So I was getting pretty bored just sitting there watching tv, because there weren’t really any good shows. I just stared and kept on turning the channels so I decided to set up my Xbox. It was just about the afternoon so we ordered food and it was alright not the greatest though. There were just endless amounts of blood being drawn from my I.V.Even though it was getting pretty annoying I am not going to lie. So I watched a movie then fell asleep counting; it was practically ten o’clock.

Carol Burnett once stated, "Only I can change my life, no one can change it for me." Many people struggle to accept the fact that our lives are based on the decisions and actions we make. As humans, we tend to blame those around us on how our life turns out. In high school, students believe that changing your life will take too long and that everything will be okay. In fact, it is best to change your life in high school. If a student from St. Teresa was asked about what they were gonna change this year, most likely the majority of them would say that they want to improve their grades. Personally, every year I strive to improve my grades each year to reach my potential and become as most educated as I can. This year, I want to improve on a lot of things. My three most desired improvements are to increase my GPA to at least a 3.5, improve my relationship with my family, and also improve my soccer skills to benefit my team.

Life events are important in shaping character traits. You can find examples of this in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Drummer boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury, and The Tell-Tale Heart and Charles by EdgarAllan Poe and Shirlie Jackson. All of these stories shows examples of shaping the person you are.

Make some lifestyle changes There are some general changes that you can make to your lifestyle that could help you feel more able to cope with pressure and stressful situations. You can:

When I was in fourth grade, the age of ten, I was an insecure little girl. I would be embarrassed by the littlest things. If I did not sit up straight in class, have the latest new clothes or have the coolest new gadgets as everyone else. I felt very different than everyone else. My parents were not happily married like everyone else. But there was something very different about me when I would run I would have sharp knife jabbing pains in my right foot, so I would run with a skip in between each stride. Mainly after school when I got home after gym class. I would cry to my mom the sharp knife pains and how I got picked on for how I ran. I would complain for endless hours. Once my mom got sick and tired of hearing about my pains she decided to take me to the podiatrist.

It was a February, 2007 when I came to live in Minnesota for the second time. I was born here, but my eleven great grandparents and grandparents wanted four other cousins and I to live with them for a couple of months. I was only two years old, so I do not remember much. Living with them was fun because they spoiled me a lot and gave me all the things a little girl wanted. At that time our family was kind of small and my grandparents wanted my cousins and me to have lots of things. My grandparents also showed me lots of manners because that is one of the best qualities a person could have. I thank them for showing me all the manners I need to have. Those few years I spent with them, they showed me lots of things and I’m thankful for those small lectures that made me the person who I am today.

I was blessed with a happy childhood filled with good memories and a supporting group of family ,friends and teachers. However, by the time I was thirteen, I had constantly been getting into trouble in school and at home. I would get into unnecessary fights both on the playground and off. Texting has become the note-passing of twenty-First-century bullies and this was the way people treated me. At home, I would get into conflict with my parents because of the sad news of my grades. They cared about my future, but I didn’t. Growing up with an older brother who constantly did well in school made me feel inferior, isolated and lonely. It felt like my parents believed he would succeed, but that I wouldn't. Similar to the animated television series “Tom and Jerry” my parents would see my brother as Jerry, the innocent one, and me as Tom, the big cruel one.

When I was younger I did not know much about life and playing football. A lot of the people that my family and I met throughout my life are because of football and how much I loved to play it. When people get older they usually decide to move around what they want to do in life. The main idols that are in my life currently aren’t anyone; they remain no one because, I would like to see what I would become in life and see where life would take me. A quote that I always remember when doing everything in life is “Keep moving forward no matter what you are doing”.

On the ceiling of my father’s room wall hung Albert Einstein's frame which had the inscription, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Those words greatly inspired me as a teenager. Even in the most difficult moments, those words scream in my head not to give up. I grew up at a time or period in Nigeria when the military junta overthrew the civilian government. The political environment so tensed that it drove away investors. Consequently, the political instability created crippled the economy. The only people that benefited from the military government were their cronies. During this period, the popular middle class disappeared. The gap between the rich and the poor widened. Food shortage arose because the government stopped supporting the farmers through subsidies. Thus, it resulted in the inability of the head of families to provide three square meals for the family. The food scarcity affected my family as well. There were days I would walk long distances to school without eating. Also, on some days, I turned my hunger to fasting. I constantly improvised so I would not get discouraged. In all these, my father kept telling me, “My son, this is a phase in life we all have to go through, everything will be fine.” Despite the tough hurdles I had to cross growing up, I succeeded and became a role model to other teenagers in the neighborhood because of the moral and financial support from my parents, education

The despairing faces and the exhilarating emotions that overwhelm the room as I think back to how irrational life can be. I notice their hands were reluctantly raised to answer a simple math problem that I had written on the board. Looking around, I have never seen such fragile students that are eager to learn but afraid to speak. However, these are the same students who helped me realize how important it was for me to be in that room. A star that shined bright, guiding the helpless voyagers to shore. I always thought life was linear , where everything increased at a constant slope, but that is definitely not the case. Thinking about the many unexpected turns it can take and how it places laborious weight on a person's decisions and responsibilities My life can be summarized from the last four years, from the beginning of high school to now. I always caught myself walking the halls contemplating my purpose in life and why I felt so incomplete. Until finally, everything fell into place, learning what my heart cared for the most and what and who I wanted to be now. Math has always been something that defines me. Going from being a normal student to a math tutor, it really shows me my own capabilities and limits.

During my youth, I always tried to be the nicest person I could be. Today, negativity has become a big part of people’s everyday life. In high school, there happens to be tons of pettiness towards one another. People disliking others, many fights and unfortunate events become the center of all the attention and even bad reputations for people and their schools. The golden rule teaches us to, “Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.”