Throughout my life, there have been many ups and downs which have been caused by the people who have come into and out of my life. Here I am, 16 years old, and have been through some things that I hadn’t really thought I would have to endure. I understand that many other people have worse problems than mine and have endured much worse than what I have, but I believe that because of my past experiences and hardships, it helps me learn how to deal with tough situations and the power of forgiveness, which ultimately makes me become the person that I am today. Growing up, I didn’t get to have or experience grandparents that I had, in a sense, wanted to have in my life. Instead of having grandparents who took their grandchildren out to do fun …show more content…
This was how life was for a very long time. This was until someone had had enough and the other person decided to never speak to us again. There and then, I knew that my life would be altered in a way that I never fully knew or understood how. That was the last time I had seen my grandparents. This was 10 years ago. Within the past decade, I’ve learned a lot from this experience and many other experiences that relate back to this incident. For the longest time, I was battling with efforts to forgive and to grant forgiveness to them. During this time, I refused to forgive them because my thought was, “Why should I forgive someone who has wronged me in so many ways and so many times over and over again.” I had thought this way until it was too late. My grandmother died in 2013 and my grandfather died 8 months after her death. I remember walking up to each of their funerals with my parents and the rest of our relatives and everyone being dead silent. No one knew what to say because no one had anything to say. Nobody had written those sappy speeches that would make us reconcile on their lives. Even grown adults couldn’t look past their differences and forgive
If you don’t forgive someone it can haunt you for the rest of your life and may affect how you see different objects and
Grandpa was in abusive partner towards my grandma. She only stayed with him because she didn’t like the idea of being a single mother. Until the day she couldn’t take it no more. I knew the problems, money problems, relationship problems between my mom and dad” grandma and grandpa. I always did my best
Although, not everything/everyone deserves to be forgiven, forgiveness is necessary to be genuinely happy because holding onto something will cloud your vision and overwhelm someone with emotions. If you can never let go and forgive someone, holding onto something will eat away at your happiness or even distract you from being happy. From personal experience, I once got into an argument with my best friend who I would spend everyday talking to. We were a part of each other’s daily lives and would always be there for each other. Until one day we got into a heated argument and began to
One of the biggest difficulties during this time was my brother was very sick when he was born, and he needed surgery to fix a problem with his stomach, and she was taking him back and forth from the doctor frequently plus my sister was only 18 months old. My mom stated, “I don’t know how I got through it, “while discussing this stage of her life but never felt isolated in any way. I was born later which a five year age gap between me and my brother. My mom told me, “After Eileen and John were born, I felt like I was going to be pregnant very year because they were born so close together. It was my biggest fear I would have all these kids, and get lost, but thankfully this did not happen.”
“After all he'd put himself through, I couldn't believe Dad had gone back to the booze” (Walls 123). It took a lot of tears, love, courage, and forgiveness to believe in the many broken promises of her father to their family and especially to her as an
Forgive, not because they deserve forgives, but because you deserve peace. It’s not easy to stop blaming someone’s fault, especially for someone who do wrong to us. In the book The Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust during World War II, he described his conflict with Karl, a dying Nazi soldier who killed many innocent Jews and begging for forgiveness for his outrageous crime at the end of his life. At the end of this sad and tragic episode, Simon did not response to Karl’s request directly; instead he left us a tough question: “What should you have done?” Based on what Karl had done during World War II and his repentance, each person might have their own point of view about where should we draw the line of forgiveness.
Furthermore, it is true that forgiving doesn’t make all wrongs okay, but forgiving is not the same as forgetting. It is possible to forgive someone, but not want to pursue a relationship with them. Executing resentment towards someone is not the same as continuing interactions with them. For example,
When I was younger, my parents taught me the difference between forgiving and forgetting. I believe that one can forgive without forgetting. When thinking about forgiveness, the first thing that comes to mind is the quote, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”. Do me wrong the first time and I will forgive you, however, I will not forget what you did so that you cannot fool me again.
“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness”-Corrie Ten Boom. (“The beautiful kingdom warriors”). Forgiveness is easier sometimes when it 's a personal attack, but attacking a loved one it is a on a whole different level completely. After Corrie Ten Boom was released, she went back to the concentration camp and forgave the men who did the horrible things to her.
Even till today I have never experienced family bonding ; it was always just my father, my mother, my brother, and me. I never had the experience of going to grandma’s house and having Thanksgiving dinner. I never felt the feeling of receiving Christmas presents from all my family members. Till this day I have never gotten the chance to say “Hey mom I’m going over my cousins
What Would I do? There are many definitions of forgiveness. The dictionary defines forgiveness as “The disposition or willingness to forgive.” I agree with that, but I believe that forgiveness also lies in the hands of the victim and varies based on the crime.
The prompt for this essay is quite simple: write about how your involvement in sports, community service, leadership, academics, and other extracurricular activities have affected your overall character. However, I feel as though this essay would be better if focused on my career in lacrosse and how it’s changed my life over the past five years, helping me throughout the good and bad, the simple and the challenging. Lacrosse has been a part of my life for about five years now. I started playing when I was in fourth grade, simply because I wanted to branch out and try something new, exciting, and a little bit out of my comfort zone.
Looking from a child to an adult I now understand why the adults in the neighborhood watched over everyone. It taught me a that there is strength in numbers and love conquers all. Growing up the fourth girl of five kids wasn’t tough or awkward for me. I am the baby girl, therefore I got away with a lot. I learned early on I was different, but could not comprehend whether it was in a good/bad way as a child.
Without people that have helped me to get where I am now, it would have been impossible. I am always grateful for what I receive but I notice that I tend to feel bad about it. I am still learning to not feel guilty and to use it as an opportunity to help reach my future goals. As a child, I could not control my class in society. I am always and will be judged and criticized in some way but all I need to do is to be able
Even though I could not cure my grandparents old age and illnesses, I did help them and made sure they knew they could count on me to make them feel just a little bit