college acceptance
Over the past year, everything in my life has completely changed. The ways that I think, react, and live now are totally different. As I was growing up, my father would physically abuse my mother and me. The situation I was in cost me many things in my life, but in retrospect I have gained more than I have lost. Six months ago I had hit rock bottom. It was the end of my senior year and I had just run away from my abusive home for the fourteenth or fifteenth time. I was at a payphone, going to call one of my friends to come pick me up and as I was catching my breath, I couldn’t think of anyone to call. My life had been totally cut off because of all the wrong decisions that I was making. It was like I had flashbacks of scenes through the last four years of my life and I saw how I was reacting to situations, and saw how everything I did was only fixing things in the short term. I came to accept what had happened to me in my past and I decided to move forward towards a better future. Fi . . .
Not to mention the different ideas and thoughts I was taught. There are a lot of other people out there and to try to interact with them might not me a bad idea. I’m also an Emergency Medical Technician for the state of New Jersey. For example, I was an assistant Sunday school teacher in Trinity Church for four years, all through high school. In order to maintain the good role I was somehow ordered to play, I enrolled myself in several community service activities that would definitely keep my mind out of doing negative actions. It has kept me going and I never plan to stop learning. For four years I was entirely focused on my problems while the world went on around me. I’ve seen everything from babies being born to people dying right in front of me. All these experiences have taught me that life isn’t just about me. I listen to other people’s problems and consider myself a more overall friendly and nicer person. I hope my acceptance to a college or university will give me the education necessary to embark on the incredible journey this world has to offer. In high school my teacher gave me an escape from the same old roles that I had been playing. nally, I made that call and took an offer to live with an old friend’s family and made a promise to myself to look for a long-term answer. She showed me that there was life after high school, like college, for instance. Education has played a very important role in my life that I cherish a lot.
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