Essays About Life Changing Experience

Life passes down great experiences to all of us. Sometimes these experiences go much more than just a memory, they go into teachings. By living through these experiences, we gain a great amount of wisdom. Fortunately I was blessed with the experience to see my...

Have you ever met a person that has had a life changing impact in your life? Well I know I have! The day I met Mr. Salazar. I had many problems going on in my life when I was in the sixth grade. He gave...

There comes a point in every person’s life when you or somebody else makes choices and it changes how you intended your life to be. This happened for me at a very young age and it wasn’t easy, it was shocking and hard. My family...

If the ultimate goal in life is to reach happiness, then I have met the most incredible of winners. To me he is the best example of true goodness. He does not judge by looks, does not occupy his mind with hateful thoughts, nor thinks...

Grew up in a small rural village in China, the last thing I can ever dream of was coming to Big Apple. “ I saw snow for the first time! I just saw the Central Park in real life!” the first few days after I...

I have always been uncertain to things that I do which also makes me indecisive. I tend to doubt the people around me even my own family. I tend to have second thoughts in choices that I am about to make. I have doubts about...

The moment that changed everything. This essay is about such a moment in my life. At the age of 16, it was April and the spring’s breeze was floating through the air. I can feel the breeze push through my hair, keeping my eyelids a...

People in my life tell me that a successful life comes from many different things. My mother tells me that success comes from having children, and from creating a new life with my body. My father tells me it comes from earning money, from making...

Well, serendipity means the things occurring unknowingly with or without our knowledge ends up with positive results. Our lives are made up of amazing moments, chance encounters, and serendipitous occurrences, but we are not always astute enough to recognize them when they happen. But every...

‎ “Any story worth telling is worth telling twice.” Oftentimes we watch movies passively ‎and in incredible amounts. However, it is only in some rare cases that we come across movies that ‎manage to turn our world upside down, changing our perspective on life and...

In an episode of the TV situation comedy “Friends,” entitled “Good Deeds Do not exist,” two characters — Phoebe and Joey — engage in a contest based on the theories of sociologist Marcel Mauss, with respect to his analyses of topic — “There are no...

My name is Beckie Louise Walker. I am the youngest out of three of us, there is my oldest brother Aaron Walker who at the moment I am having a hard time dealing with and then there is my twin sister who is older than...

Subsequent to taking our free online course, numerous understudies see enormous changes in their connections. Judy is a bosom tumor survivor. When she discovered that a lady in her yoga class was experiencing chemotherapy, she contacted present herself. Her planning couldn’t have been something more:...

During retired astronaut Jeff Ashby’s discussion with the 2013 Bezos Scholars, he urged each of us to, “share your gifts with the world as you write your signature across the Earth.” That was the first instance during my life-changing, week-long experience at the Aspen Ideas...

Reborn The sky was grey, as were the faces around me.There are moments in a person’s life that define or change them. These could be huge, previously thought-to-be impossible events or something as small as getting the dog you have always wanted. My life hasn’t...

The idea of taking photographs to let people see new places around the world sounded like a dream job to me. I started a list of places I wanted to photograph around the world and hung it on my wall. Never actually thinking I would...

My story is a perfect example of what life is like when a person is ignorant of gratitude, and what happens when you make gratitude a part of my life. If i had been asked six years ago if I was a grateful person, I...

The unknown as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “not known or experienced before.” The concept of the unknown can be frightening to some, but exhilarating to others who see the exploration of the unknown as a challenge. Author and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh in her...