...The Days That Changed My Life… Amanda Mathis ECPI University The days that changed my life forever were two of the greatest gifts I could have ever imagined! I was preparing myself for months leading up to those days but I had no idea when those days came it would change who I was, or even how I thought. It took a few days after to realize that all of this wasn’t a dream it became reality. I hoped and prayed for these days to come one day. I couldn’t have been more thrilled when they finally arrived. I keep thinking to myself is there anything I need to do better, what I needed to do, how my life will be different and there is no going back. All I could do was breath and enjoy every precious moment God has given me. When all else fails I know these were the days I can look back and always know I had done something right. July 8, 2009 came and what a day this was. This is the day I had my son Kelbyn and I remember this day very well. I woke up at 5 am to get ready and head to the hospital. We finally arrived at 6 am little did I know what I was about to go through. What I did know for sure was I was going to hold my son for the first time in my arms that day. By 8 am they started to induce me and this process wasn’t too pleasant. I was actually in labor for hours and pushed I know for 2 hours. The incredible thing that actually kept me going was getting to actually watch my son be born. Was it the craziest thing I have ever seen or even went through, yes it was by far? Them...
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...The Moment that changed my life My life was a mess. I was going down roads no man should be traveling. I didn’t care what happened to me or what happened to anyone around me. The only reason I went to work was because I needed money to have fun later that night. My life was a downward spiral and no matter what people said to me, It didn’t matter. I was a waste of space, a burden on everyone around me. I was bored and I was going to have a great time even if that time great time included me hurting everyone around me. There I was working one random Thursday in April when I happen to look out into the restaurant and saw a memory of mine that was sitting at table 52. I asked my friend Kory to ask her if her name was Jessica. Jessica was a friend of mine from middle school. We lived on the same block but we kind of lived our own lives, she had her friends and I had mine, occasionally we would hang out and have fun but nothing more than that. As the years moved on so did we, she went her way in life and I went mine. After Kory came back with the news that it was her, I built up enough courage to go talk to her. It was the usual talk for people of haven’t seen each other for over ten years, awkward at first but comfortable after awhile. Before they left and after a few margaritas we exchanged phone numbers. I found out that she was recently divorced and had a three year old daughter named Blaise. After a few days she called me because she was tired of waiting on me to call. For...
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...June 6, 2011, the day that changed my family’s life forever. I was asleep on a pull out mattress at 4:25 a.m. at my grandma's house. I had been in a deep sleep, dreaming. A jolt of energy burst through me. My grandma and brother, Ryan, were quietly yelling, and shaking me from my shoulders. Crazily trying to wake me up from my sleep coma. I finally woke up. I jumped up anxiously, trying to focus on what they had been trying to say to me and why they tried to wake me up the way they did. I then found out that my baby sister finally came into the world, out of my mom’s belly, after the nine long anticipating months. After spending around five minutes with our five o’clock brain, we figured out her name, Khloe. A true gift from God, she’s finally here; my mom and her, both happy and healthy. After figuring out her name, we all had to go back to bed and wait until late morning to go visit them and meet our new sister for the first time. Hours and hours I lay there trying to go back to sleep, but that was a fail. I had been way too excited and nervous to fall asleep....
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...I sit in a cozy living room with a book held open before me, yet the tranquil atmosphere does nothing to ease my restless mind. Oblivious to the storm outside, my glazed eyes stare straight through the hieroglyphics on the page to the remote corner of my mind where vulnerabilities and qualms reside. Like a broken record, my mind replays this evening over and over, as if I’m subconsciously trying to find the instant when the building hostility could have been reversed and our argument turned into one of those father and son heart-to-hearts shown on television. Letting my fears get the best of me, I came off sounding accusing when I had only meant to express concern. If only I had had a chance to explain... I remember being young and caring only to forget both the past and imminent future. I remember the feeling of newfound freedom so potent it made a person inhibitionless, so much so that it was impossible to notice when you were in over your head. I also remember when addiction had ensnared my best friend by the time he was 16 and had killed him before his 18th birthday. I can’t forget watching helplessly as he gradually became another person, one who seemed apathetic and dead inside even before he was really gone. Sometimes I look at my son and see him instead....
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...view life and perceive it. My story might not outstanding to other people, but for me, it was a spectacular changed. For years in my life, I would never forget the first time I had my first flight. My family and I immigrated to a new country that I never thought of. Because of that flight, my life had changed from one culture to a different culture in just 24 hours on the airplane It was winter in 2006 when my family and I decided to move out of the country. One week before the departure date, my mum told me that her, my brother, and I needed to immigrate to the United State of America for better lives. I was a teenager at the age of 14 years old at that time. I didn’t really know how my life would be in the U.S, but I was surprised to have a chance to travel outside the country for the first time. The time was liked a flash, I couldn’t had a enough time to say farewell to my friends and my special person, who is my great grandmother. The boarding time for my first flight had come, and I was so exited to watch my motherland from above. That was to have a better life for my family, but my tears just dropped for no reasons, may be I was scared or missed my old house. Well, no more tears to wasted; I boarded the plane with my family and took off. On August 2006 at nighttime, my plane had landed at International Airport of Houston. From the moment I stepped out of the plane, a whole new destiny of mine were waiting ahead of me, and I knew my life would completely changed. The...
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...intention.” I keep this quotation close to my heart, and use it as a guide through life. Whenever I help someone with their books, or a certain math problem, I keep Wilde’s words in mind, for I am helping someone who is in need. Besides these simple acts of generosity, I am also involved in variety of different volunteering activities (e.g. ARL, and PH Library, and Habitat for Humanity). To this day, volunteering plays a major part of my life; stating the Key Club pledge for the first time was definitely this spark. It was the spark that has opened my eyes to the world of volunteering and giving back to the community that has given me so much already. Being a member of Southeast Polk Key Club has definitely changed my life, and it all started in a math room on the third floor....
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...1010 March 9, 2012 Remembering an Event Essay Child Birthing that had changed my life 13 years ago I gave birth to a healthy girl who changed everything about me. Before her birth I was a carefree, immature party girl without a care in the world, after her birth I grew up stopped parting and took on the responsibility that was gifted to me. It has not been a stroll in the park more like a steep climb up a mountain, but it is not something that I would give up no matter how hard it can get. Before the birth of my daughter I was a carefree, immature party girl without a care in the world. I remember spending my days shopping at the mall, not worry about spending too much money. Spending my summer days at the beach of Myrtle beach, NC, going to amusement parks in KC and being at the clubs all night. I remember drinking and dancing the nights away with my friends. I remember just shopping, partying and having a good time. 13 years ago, September 19, 1998 it all changed, I gave birth to my daughter Carly. The day I went in to the hospital to give birth to her was a very exciting day, I checked into the hospital at 5:00 in the morning, they were going to induced me by 6:00 a.m. I remember lying there being so excited and just wanting to see her already. They came in and hooked me up to the IV'S I went 6 hours without feeling any pain, but being so bored just laying there, then the doctor came in and broke my water at 12:00 p.m. and that is when I started wishing it would really...
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...event that changed my life, well when, I think back on my life there’s so many changes for the good and some were bad but, there were some learning experiences that helped make me a better person. Graduation for one made me realize that I am no longer a teenager and I was no longer allowed to depend on my mother. It was time that I go out into the real world and make a life of my own. Then my first real job is another, having to make money for a living and support myself. Although, these two are major events that changed my life. There is one that changed my life forever, changed who I was, and my outlook on life. The birth of my daughter! Although, it was a . Having a child changes life so dramatically, regardless of how old you are when you have a child. I no longer lived for myself, my social life was taper down, I could no longer decide last minute that I wanted to watch a movie, or go shopping because I had an infant that needs my constant care. All of a sudden, I had this huge responsibility and this person I cared so much about. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to do the best job raising my child to be a good and successful person. Just as I had to change what I did on a day-to-day basis, I also had to change my thought process to the point where I was always thinking about what’s best for my child and to where I try to live my life so as to be an example to my child. On the flip side, I find that my life is more focused because I anchor my life on my child...
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...that changed my life, well when, I think back on my life there’s so many changes for the good and some were bad but, there were some learning experiences that helped make me a better person. Graduation for one made me realize that I am no longer a teenager and I was no longer allowed to depend on my mother. It was time that I go out into the real world and make a life of my own. Then my first real job is another, having to make money for a living and support myself. Although, these two are major events that changed my life. There is one that changed my life forever, changed who I was, and my outlook on life. The birth of my daughter! Although, it was a . Having a child changes life so dramatically, regardless of how old you are when you have a child. I no longer lived for myself, my social life was taper down, I could no longer decide last minute that I wanted to watch a movie, or go shopping because I had an infant that needs my constant care. All of a sudden, I had this huge responsibility and this person I cared so much about. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to do the best job raising my child to be a good and successful person. Just as I had to change what I did on a day-to-day basis, I also had to change my thought process to the point where I was always thinking about what’s best for my child and to where I try to live my life so as to be an example to my child. On the flip side, I find that my life is more focused because I anchor my life on my child...
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...honorable, but my opinion of would be literacy is totally different than others. I think of literacy as a source, what teaches us to learn how to live and go on. I think this way because when I was very little, I got bullied. I cry every day after I came from school. Then my life responded in the way of Forrest Gump’s quote about, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” One day I took a bite in a type of chocolate that just changed my life and bought a light. I discovered how to read. After that day, the only best friend of mine was booked. I learn to do everything from a book, it taught how to go on also, who to go with? It taught me many things. It taught me the meaning of my life and the power I have, whom I hate and whom I really trust in this big world of unknown. These books really change the view of the world from my distinct. Though the real book to affect my life and change my point of view of the world was wonder and art book. Wonder was one of the first books I ever read. It was about a little boy who had deformed face. No one would play with him because of his deformed face. He was homeschooled, because of his face. The first time he tried to go to school and went to school. He was treated differently, more of like a monster. Whoever he wanted to talk with ran way, he was all alone. Life isn’t always fair to everyone, he would be an example. Through what I love about this book is the time didn’t stay the same all the time. Life changes...
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...Person Who Made An Impacted On My Life The person who made an impact on my life is my son. Emmanuel is the reason that my life is what it is now. If it wasn’t for him I would be somewhere doing the wrong things. Since Emmanuel is only two, he doesn’t understand the impact that he made on my life, but my family. My mother Melba Peterson and my two older brothers TraeVon McKinney and Michael Peterson, do know understand how Emmanuel made the huge significtly impacted on my life. My mother Melba can tell you a whole story about my life, but the most thing she likes to talk about is me growing up and becoming a respectful young lady by bringing my pride and joy Emmanuel in to world; he changed my life to give him a better future. My mother would tell all her friends about Emmanuel and how special he is to her. Her favorite story is the day Emmanuel was born. For some odd reason my mother and Emmanuel became real close after he was born. I asked my mother how Emmanuel made an impact on my life. My mother responded by saying, she don’t know how I graduated high school when I barely went before I had Emmanuel, but after I had him she made sure I went every day. My mother also talks about how I use to run the streets, get into fights with anybody, getting arrested more than 10 times and doing things that a girl my age at the time shouldn’t been doing. She would always want me to do well but I never did. She says when Emmanuel came into my life my behavior started to improve; I stop...
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...September 2014 Life Changing Event A lot of things happen to a person in his life. But, it’s not important that it just happen to him. The important thing that what it has changed in his personality. Has it’s changed it to the worse or to the better. In this Essay I will talk About an Event that has made a change in my life. The most impactful thing that happened in my life was changing from one school to another. When I was in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) I changed my school from the Country system to the British system. I needed to change my school, because my old school didn’t provide the British system. My new school was fantastic, we had a lot of activities, and teachers were great it was going good. The thing that made an impact was making new friends. I always had that thought that friends will come to you, you don’t have to search for them. For the next three weeks I was sitting alone still holding on that thought. Till one day, one teacher came to me and told these simple words, “Friends sometimes come alone and sometimes you to search for them”. From that day I was talking with everybody in my class, knowing what they like and what they don’t. Then I started to choose the ones that were suitable to me. In two weeks I found that I made a lot of friends than the ones I had in my old school. This event has let me learn to be opened minded and accept all kinds of people. In my opinion, this event has changed me to the good...
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...Chapman Very few moments can define a man’s life and the path he takes. December 18, 2012 was one of those defining moments in my life. It was no longer just about me and my needs, yes I worried about my wife and family, but they could take care of themselves. The day my son was born had to be one of the most exciting and scariest days of my life. I didn’t know what to expect, how I was supposed to care for this little human being. A split second changed my life forever. Until that moment happened I had no idea what my life was going to be like having someone that depended on me for their every need. When my wife told me she was pregnant, I was excited, but it just seemed surreal. I went to the doctor appointments, I was there for the ultrasounds. I was ecstatic the first time I felt him kick. My wife had complications so I was at the hospital every time the doctor sent her for observations. In the months leading up to my son’s birth I was there every step of the way, but I was just an observer. My wife was doing it all, nothing for me really changed. The day started out like any other induction day for millions of other parents. We arrived at the hospital bright and early, my wife filled out some paperwork, the nurses hooked up her iv, started the Pitocin drip, and her labor began. The rest of the morning, afternoon and early afternoon was a lot of waiting. Nurses and the doctor came in and out checking on my wife and the baby. My wife’s mom and sister came from our hometown...
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...The Day My Life Changed Susan Cotton Eng 121 English Composition 1 Kristin DeMarr August 25, 2015 The Day My Life Changed This story is about a quiet choirgirl, Susan Cotton and a loud bad boy, Travis Cotton. The day these two met was a warm summer day in August 1994. This was my sophomore year in high school and the day I finally came out of my shell. I remember this day as if it was yesterday. I had just got back from a summer trip to Florida and was at the school for orientation. After I took care of my schedule, I decided to see who was hanging around. Outside was my friend Reannan and her friend Travis who invited me over to visit for a few. I went over to visit for a few minutes before I had to be home to finish getting ready for school. That is when Travis asked, “Do you want to sit down?” He then pushed Reannan to his other leg, offering me the lap she was sitting on. It was during our visit I realized this was going to be a memorable day. It was at that moment I was introduced to who would eventually become the love of my life! It took us nearly a year to become a couple even after being told we would not make it a year, we have been each other’s saviors for the last twenty- one years. In order to understand how my life changed, I am going to take you on a trip down memory lane. I was the quiet choirgirl who did no wrong. Travis was the loud bad boy who did everything wrong. I was raised by a Southern Baptist family and was sheltered from most worldly happenings...
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...How has Anne’s life changed my life? Anne’s life has indeed affected mine the way I think, speak, and see the world around me. It’s not exactly that I see different things but instead it is the way I see them. My perspective has changed, I think about situations in a different way. Before I used to think racial violence was just plain stupid but now I think about the races that are fighting each other and why are they fighting. My perspective was changed after reading the Diary of Anne Frank play as well as watching the 2001 movie. Racial violent is of racist but there is always a reason as to why two or more races are fighting. Maybe it’s because they are judging one another because of skin colour or racist stereotypes. Though that is true Hitler killed Jews because he simply hated them there was hardly any reason for him to hate the Jewish race but he just had to blame them for hardly any reason. That is why as well as how he created his army. This is also why my perspective about life changed. Reading the Diary of Anne Frank play was like putting on some magic glasses that changed my perspective....
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