The Toughest Decision of My Life Essay

Leaving my home in Hawaii and moving to Oregon was one of the hardest things for me to do. Maybe I would have felt better about it if my parents had asked me for my opinion before picking up our lives and moving to some place I had never even heard of before. I know I shouldn’t have cared that much. After all, I was only a 1st grader and even now my parents don’t consider how I’d feel before making decisions, so why would they then? At the end of 2007, I said goodbye to my best friends for the last time and left for Oregon.

If I could go back to any time in the world, I would go back to France in October 1944 on the Western Front. World War Two has always interested me. Being able to see the revolutionary weapons would be incredible. I would also love to take part in such a historic and epic war. War is a horrible event that plays a major part in human development.

change my life I would either be dead or in jail. I was always getting into fights and just being

Even though I didn't move far, the school change caused a lot of my previous

This question gives my aunt the opportunity to reflect on her past and think about what she would change if she could.

to be blessed with everything that I have did. The only thing I would change is being a

My parents, well mostly my mom wanted to do anything to get me out of Chicago. She said chicago ain't good for me cause I was always getting into fights and i started gang banging so she said she was going to move I never believed her into one day she told me start packing. I was really mad cause I ain't want to move, but i guess i had to. We move to Decatur iL and our first week there I knew almost everybody, but i was only cool with like 3 people.

but I realized that my future was no longer bright there. I didn’t want to risk losing the relationships I

I left my whole family, especially my father, which was very close to me (bottom lip begins to quiver) and I never saw him again in my life.

Every little thing we do or say is consequential to the events that follow. Many would say that they would not change their past as it would change the present. Simply, I am not satisfied with my present. After considering many candidates to have said 30-minute conversation with, it would be 8-year-old Taylor Thrift. My intentions would be to change the way I had previously viewed my education and my attendance. The world would be a different place and my future would be undeniably changed.

It was the day of Thanksgiving, we were going to my grandma and grandpa’s house. When we arrived there, the food wasn’t quite done, but the smell of the turkey, potatoes, and the rest of the food was so good. My cousins were sitting in the living room, with my uncle, watching football. I went out in the living room with them, and played on my phone, till the food was done.

As I look back on my life, I wouldn’t change what happened. Because I was expelled out of school, I had to attend an alternative program which caused me to rethink my life choices. My friends changed along with my relationship with my parents. Since graduation I have been in a serious relationship and gave birth to my son, Austin. I also experienced a serious health problem called graves’ disease that required a thyroidectomy. All these events are making me a stronger person to take back my

were to good to leave behind. And I didn't welcome the idea of having to start over, since I had been with the

In life there are always moments that we wish we could take back. If given the chance to revisit the past and change the outcome of a situation, I would have not dropped out of school and later gotten my GED. I made this decision at a young age, unaware of how this decision would change my future greatly. In deciding to drop out of school, I missed out on the experience that high school gives you and how it would have helped develop my character. If I stayed enrolled in school I would have had more doors opened for my future and the assistance that I would have needed to make those life choices such as college. I would have been able to feel the sense of success, like getting promoted to a higher position, getting rewards for all my hard work at the job, or simply getting employee of the month. I would’ve wanted to finish the four years of high school and know that all my hard work has paid off.

“My past was my mother, I could hear her voice, and she spoke to me not