In a Place Too Far Away A lot of things can make up a person; their hair, their eyes, their figure, but it’s one’s experiences that truly make them up. People experience many different things every day. Some stick with you and form you while others fade. I am going to share how moving helped form who I am today. By convincing myself I wasn’t really moving, giving up on something I couldn’t control and learning how to fix everything all of a sudden, I got through moving to a little place a little too far away. My life was perfect before I found out. I had several friends, had finally come out to all of them, and was simply just happy where I was. There could have been a tornado hurling around baby Satans or a volcano erupting outside my window and I still would have been like; wow it’s a beautiful day. I was so high on life and expected senior year to only make it better. Nothing could bring me down until he told us. My dad told my sister and me he had good news and bad news when we went out for …show more content…
We all feel like crap, we all care too much about something and we all want something we can’t have. I accepted that things don’t always work out; things don’t always go the way you planned them and things change. The sooner I began to realize that the more comfortable I became with the fact that things were changing. I realized that if I couldn’t change what was changing then I shouldn’t try to change it. This is a clear example of insight learning because out of nowhere I realized that there was no point in being a big baby over everything. “When the solution to a problem comes to you in an all-of-a-sudden manner, it can be considered insight. More specifically, insight can be defined as the sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.” (“Insight,”2016) I learned that there’s no point in obsessing over something that I have no control over and I just kind of let it
In the spring of 2012, I was informed that we were going to move. As a thirteen going on fourteen year old, the news was rather jarring. I was born and raised in that house, in that town, it was all I knew. We packed up our belongings and began the 678 mile journey to our new “home.” Moving from Hartland, Michigan to Durham, North Carolina was not only immense in distance, but in way of life.
One of the most difficult things I have ever experienced is moving to Idaho before my junior year of high school from Utah. Despite this being a common occurrence for people it was hard for me because it uprooted me from the community I had lived in for the past seven years, and the people I loved. It caused me to leave friends that I grew up with and that I couldn’t imagine leaving. And forced me to meet new friends and discover a new place. As I have had time to reflect on my experiences it causes me to realize that it doesn’t matter where you are, or the people you know, but how you react in the situation.
For two years not one person told me I had looked happy. It was simple, but it clicked and made me realize that I did not need the negativity that I had lived in the shadows of for so long. I was more important than the relationship and I wanted more out of life than the inconsiderate person I saw in the mirror behind the foggy glasses. I wanted to be free of the ridicule and negativity from my peers and family that surrounded my day-to-day life. I wanted to have friends again, and most of all I wanted to be successful.
The only place that I have ever resided in was Miami, Florida so moving meant that I had to go to new schools and meet make new friends. Surprisingly, I made friends with people within the first two weeks and they are still my close friends going on three years. Despite having made friends, there was always a void in my heart. At school, I would sit in class wishing that my father was still alive or that I was still living in Miami.
It’s that time again, another move, it seems as if I was just arriving in Arizona yesterday. It’s not as if it came as a surprise to me: I’ve known my entire life to not get attached to people and to expect a move every few years. It’s just tough finally finding friends and belonging one second, then starting all over the next. It wasn’t all that bad at the beginning, when I was younger, but as time went on and siblings began to leave, I started to feel alone. Living in two different countries and three different states throughout high school was tough on it’s own, but after my brother, my last sibling at home, went off to college, I felt empty and incomplete.
The way I felt about my city and my surroundings had a strong correlation with the way I felt about myself. Prior to this realization, my dreams and aspirations for the future were minimal. I performed well throughout elementary school, and I was moved up a grade because my reading and math skills were advanced. However, when I began attending middle school, the new atmosphere combined with all of the new awareness I gained as I started transitioning from a child to an adolescent ended up in me lowering the expectations I had for myself. Once I regained my optimism and saw that Oakland is not what people say it is, I began seeing life in an optimistic way as
When I was 14 I had to move to San Clemente, California. I had already recently moved temporarily to Texas while a house was made ready for us on the military base. “The house is ready!” my mother had said excitedly, after being on the phone for a few minutes. “It’s time to go back?”
I moved away not knowing anyone or anything, but I was perfectly content because I had a new Roller Derby family waiting for me. It may be an entirely new group of girls, but regardless we are Derby Girls, so we are family connected through years of blood, sweat, and tears for this sport. The world could give me it’s absolute worst, but I am stronger because of Derby. I can do anything because of
Long ago in a land once known as the United States of America, in a time where everyone had freedoms that no longer exist today, religious freedom had no price. Back then, everyone was free to practice whatever religion they pleased. That all changed the day the continents collided; an event that was much later given the name the Collision. For a time, there was peace but even a tentative peace can’t last forever. Only days after the Collision, the Vatican City sent its troops out across the newly formed continent.
Anxiety makes me feel like an outsider, the odd one out, a human on Jupiter or an alien on Earth. My thoughts fill my brain like meteors; violent masses causing disturbance. So I ask myself, “What will tomorrow bring to me?” “Why can’t I just live like everyone else?” “Will I ever heal?
I had been out of the saddle for about six weeks after that, my hands had blisters where I had gripped onto the reins so tightly. It had made closing my hand a very difficult task for the next four weeks that came. Once, I was finally all healed up it took a couple of weeks for me not to be scared of him again. It was difficult, and I wanted to sell him and spend my money on lessons instead. However, my mom, friends and trainer had pushed me to work past this problem and not give up on him.
Distant Lands - Prologue I The Heated discussion It was tremendously noisy, he just couldn't hear a thing, the fight was terrible, so before he said something he would definitely regret, he didn't know what to do, he just had to get away... Frustrated, he kept thinking, frantically, “What can i do” he asks himself, Walking, with his head down, slowly weaving in and out of the side streets, The flicker of the street lights making him jump,
“CHA CHING!” I heard the cash register ring up as I woke up. I heard loud yawns coming from the other slots. “Why does the register have to be so loud and obnoxious?”, said Larry. Larry is a $5 bill.
“A hunger for authenticity guides us in every age and aspect of life.” Karen Wright, a writer for Psychology Today, examines this subject in her article “Dare to Be Yourself”. Some people live their lives not knowing who they truly are—some purposefully hiding who they are—due to fear or utter confusion. When asked to define oneself one may even struggle to conjure up a word. Anyone who has hidden themselves, or their qualities knows that when a person accepts their true character, the best shines through once they are fully themselves.
We need to talk about ‘Wanderlust culture’ Travelling has never been easier, this much is a certainty. I was catching up with a friend who had just returned from Italy last month when, out of curiosity, I did a 5 minute research to discover the cheapest flights available in Europe, from Portugal. Imagine my surprise to find I could easily go to Paris or Milan for outrageous prices such as 20€. That’s about as much as I pay to visit my hometown, 120kms away. My mouse’s cursor hoovered anxiously over the “Buy” button.