Personal Life Essay

hard, we will leave,” Mother pleated. My grandmother died a painful, slow death that no person should endure nor witness. I watched the person I cared for most in this world become too weak to walk on her own, suffer from too much pain to live her life, and become too drugged to put words together. Due to the cancer spreading, her body shut down, and because of this, I received a one-sided goodbye.

trickled down to one beat per minute. I slowly realized the different types of people surrounding me on a day to day basis. I asked myself the following question: “Alex, why have you molded yourself into a new person?” Realizing the pace and discomfort my life was going towards, I sought to answer the question. I had lost a genuine friendship built over several years. This loss had affected me very deeply to the point I did not recognize the myself in the mirror anymore. Entering freshmen year, I was unable

Like most other days, Tidus Blake and I were in quite the deadlock. We were supposed to be on our way to my family owned café, where we were expected to meet with my brother, Peter, and our friend Sommer. However, after running into one another, a greeting gone wrong with a few sarcastic remarks, there we were in an impasse underneath the crossroads of Aeris and Riker Street, just around the corner of Ridgecrest Town Square. Tidus and I had never been on good terms under any circumstances, only being

Death is like a dark room that slowly gets smaller, eventually crushing you. I was in that room when my mother died on February 18, this past Saturday. I was crushed. I can still see her on her deathbed, her bright blue eyes that were once full of life and excitement slowly fading into a despondent gray. Although, when she held my face, her eyes looking into mine, I could see them light up. Like someone had flipped a switch and she was good as new, but I knew. I knew that that switch could not be

lot of thing but death has to be up the top you could die tomorrow or msby in 20 30 years but know can really know what it feels like and with me my life is pritty boring and i mean boring i build my own life up the way i would with it to be not like all the fancy cars and the house i mean the sories and msking them funnyer and way better so make my life more intreasting and sometimes it will catch up with me as i said

To say that I have lived a mild and boring life is an understatement. There have not been many, what I would call, substantial, life-changing moments that I have gone through in my 44 years that I am sure several others have not experienced as well. From meeting my wife to the birth of my son, everyone can connect to a lot of the same experiences in life. When I reflect on my life thus far, the one that truly stands out is one that I am sure many others in this class have unfortunately had to experience

decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's making good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person…”. Everyone in their lives has an event that either changes them in a positive or negative way. The event that changed my life drastically, was playing football. When I was a young boy I was not the smartest, most interactive, nor the best behaved. It was like this because I did not have anything to motivate me through school, in addition, I was a reckless young boy. It got

that we have forever to spend with them, but that is where we are mistaken. Unfortunately, this year in January, I experienced the cruel reality of death, myself. I have realized, truly how much death can change your perspective on many aspects of life. When I faced with this death, I began to appreciate family more, began to express my love for them more out of the fear that any goodbye could be the last. Growing

was old enough to remember it. To this day, I’ve still never lost anyone very close to me. When I was younger, I guess it never occurred to me that people don’t get to live forever. In all honesty I didn’t pay it much attention, life and death that is. I just lived my life, playing with toys and running to the park with friends, not worrying about the larger scale

everyone’s life certain events take place in which ideas, thoughts or even the lives of individuals change. Sometimes those life changing events can be an emotional period of time in which joy and sorrow can manifest and lead to bigger and better lives for everyone involved. In the same manner these experiences can be used as a teaching point for yourself as well as others. In my case, the learning point came with one single event which completely changed my views and decisions as well as my own life towards