...puppy. A dog. A protector. A young child’s best friend. Barks to the sound of birds chirping through the wind. Unfortunately, it takes losing a first playmate to realize what life will cultivate in the long run. I know from personal experience that losing a best friend transplants many lessons that can be used later in life. I reminisce about all the times Booster and I enjoyed, from playing fetch or him meeting me when I arrived home from school. Maybe even the times that I would get so mad at him. Because he jumped on me and whacked me down or when he gnawed up my favorite light up shoes. When we left for our family trip I never expected my world coming to an end. Booster stood not only as just a playmate; he happened to teach me...
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...what might force me to escape my comfort zone. Everyone goes through change throughout their lifetime whether it’s wanted or not. For me, change had its biggest impact on my life during my senior year of high school. I was just your average teenage girl, I had the three best friends anyone could ask for, the normal teenage drama, but was not the most confident girl. One event in particular would change my life forever, and it would require me to step out of my comfort zone and take risks. My name is Hanna, and this is my story. I was never one to take chances. It was always my girls and me doing our thing. I could pretty much tell them anything without them judging me. We were a pretty tight circle and never in a million years did I think that would change. It wasn’t something that happened overnight. We gradually drifted apart until we barely spoke anymore. It all began one day when Brooke and I were talking to our friend, Ally, on spare. She was talking about how she liked to visit her friends who were away at school and party with them. She mentioned how she was going down again the upcoming weekend and invited us to go. Brooke, being very outgoing, instantly agreed to go, but I was hesitant. I barely knew the people, and it was most definitely not in my comfort zone. After much convincing from Brooke, I finally caved in and was actually a little excited to go. I never would have thought this night would change the way I lived my life, or would bring me close to people...
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... Tell me about your friends. (Perhaps get a description of one or two individuals.) a. What do you like to do with your friends? b. Do most people seem to like you? Why or why not? g. Do you feel like you have enough friends, or do you wish you had more friends? 2. What makes you happy? a. What makes you sad? b. What do you do when you feel sad? c. What do your parents do when you feel sad? d. What makes you mad? e. What do you do when you get mad? f. What are you scared of? g. Are there things you worry about a lot? h. What do you do when you feel worried? i. All in all, how do you feel most of the time? 9. What do you think about yourself? How would you describe yourself? Do you like yourself? a. What do you like best about yourself? b. What don’t you like about yourself? c. If you could change anything you wanted to about yourself, what would that be? c. Are there more things you like or more things you don’t like about yourself? 10. (If there is evidence of depression or suicide risk) Have you ever felt so sad that you kinda wished you were dead? a. (If yes) When? Why? What was going on? What were you thinking about? b. (If yes to 10) What happened? What did you do? c. (If appropriate) Have you ever thought about...
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...event Growing up for me was one of the best occurrences that made my life interesting. I got to explore things that meant so much to me, that included items and equipment in the house. My parents’ support made me feel that I was doing the right thing. Like a chick which hides under its mother’s feathers, I would always run to my mother whenever I messed up things, for instance when they started crumbling down. I would also be devastated when things did not work out for me and my experiments failed. This always made me sad as I felt as if I was a failure. However, life did not stop at any instance to let me continue enjoying the toddler things. I had to undergo changes that were meant to make me better and grow into the man I am today. However I do recall some of those instances that I find interesting about my childhood. When I was eight years old, it was the best time for me to leave home and become a pupil in a junior school. This was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. I felt as if all the weight on earth was being laid on my back. I had to leave my mother at home and go spend time with other kids in school. I hated everything about school at that time and no matter how hard my parents tried to convince me that it was good for me to be at school, I still could not take it. When I was eight years old, it was the best time for me to leave home and become a pupil in a junior school. This was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. I felt as if...
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...positive aspect of things. I’ve always tried to be a positive person because growing up I didn’t see that much, everyone would always look for something to complain about and wouldn’t ever try to see the light, even in the darkest moments. A couple years back, I was on my phone and I was scrolling through things on the internet and I stumbled on a quote, I don’t remember precisely what the quote said, but it touched me mentally and changed how I reacted to my situations and it taught me that there is always going to be somebody going through something worse than you. Now that I’ve grown up a little, I realized that life isn’t always going to be unicorn and rainbows, there will always be a point in your life where it seems that nothing is going as expected and nothing will work in your favor but that’s not true, it’s how you allow the situation. Around seven years ago something happened in my family that nobody ever expected to happen, my sister who at the time was around twelve years old was diagnosed with cancer. A couple weeks before...
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...There a million ways that you can get hurt and disappointed. You can slip on spilled milk and get a bruise on your knee, you can get your three month old iPhone 6 wet from a pool party and have it to never turn on ever again, you can get cheated on by the love of your life and have him tell you it’s because you’re just not enough, or you can get an F on your Math midterm which takes up 30% of your final grade. In my case though, the worst hurt came from my best friend emailing me on Christmas Eve. This was not even half of what she sent me: “I just really want you to stop thinking about what others think of you! Bianca, you used to not care! What happened to the best friend I had 7 years ago who didn't care about what others think? The girl who didn't even bother to think about petty dramas? The girl who had so much self-control yet is super fun to hang out with? The girl who had so much ideas to offer? The girl who was Bianca. I miss Bianca ok. Look, I'm not asking you to never change because that's hella impossible. I'm just telling you to stick to who you are and to never forget it. I asked help from the chillest person ever and gives the most neutral answer ever and I won't name her. I opened up about how I'm feeling but before I vented we were talking about how opposite you and I are, like I'm so loud and you're angelic and everything else then she said "yeah I think Bianca's cool" and I said "yeah she is" and then she replied "...now medj hindi na" then that's when I vented...
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...The best advice I have received was the advice from my mom who said " everything thing happens for good". My mothers advice was so true and applicable . It gave me hope that when bad things happened to me or things don't turn out the way I want them because of my mom's advice I understood it was is for a reason. I followed it also because through out my life it was easy to find situations where I could get upset. Since I was a little girl I heard my mom say "everything happens for Good" I heard her say it both for the good and the bad things that happened. hearing her telling me this when she saw me upset made me put it in my mind and apply it in my everyday life. Finding myself in small situations being mad like missing the bus to get to school or being rejected by a friend, I remember always getting mad at myself , people or even God. The time I applied for a job and after waiting two weeks for interview I was mad because I didn't the new job. This days thanks to God I have been changed because my mom' advice was so true and applicable. Now rather than just worrying myself why things always don't work out as I expected I learned not to give in or give up easily in every situations I found myself in but always I try to see beyond what is in front of me or try to focus on the positive sides of situations as they saying goes " you can either think the cup is half full or half empty". The best counsel that I got from my mother when I connected it with what I read on the...
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...for I’m learning to sail my ship. --Louisa May Alcott This aphorism to me means that one is willing to take risks because even if a person fails she is learning from what she did wrong. Many times in my life I have taken the risk to do an activity and failed but did not give up and learned what I did wrong. In life a person is always experiencing trial and error, one has to fail at least once to learn how to do it the correct way. This aphorism to me also means one is learning how to cope with bad news, and still keep going with their everyday life. In life a person hits many obstacles but it is their own choice if they want the obstacle ruin them or let them learn from it. I choose to have all obstacles in my life let me learn and see the positive in everything. A time in my life when I wasn’t afraid of the storm, for I was learning to sail my ship even if I was in pain and doubted that I would ever get out of the storm, was when I lost my grandpa to cancer. He was my role model, my rock, my go to man when I was upset, the man who could make me smile even when I didn’t want to, and most importantly my best friend. When I lost him I was in seventh grade, I didn’t really know what to think, I couldn’t wrap my mind around what happened. I knew he was sick and he wasn’t doing very well at all, but I did not think it would happen that soon. I was not ready to say goodbye. He was the one that kept me going, he was always smiling even when he was in pain. My grandpa was the...
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...Little Girl Once Lost…” A little girl, that’s all I was. I was at the point in my life were little girl’s just like me had life’s that were pure and innocent, loveable and enjoyable, and beautiful and unforgettable. Bike riding, hop-scotch, and playing dress up were what all the other little eight year old girls were doing, but not me. I was an eight year old girl, a voice crying out for help, and a victim of child molestation. “Those who commit child sexual abuse often know or have close relationships with the child they abuse” (Newton, Gerrtis 25). That is exactly what happened to me. It was my stepfather, and he did it. “Sweetie Pie” was he called me. I was a trouble free little girl with an older brother I admired. My parents had split up when I was 6, and my mother was always so unhappy, or so it seemed. My mother lacked love and affection, and it showed greatly through our eyes along with everyone else’s. Thus, when I was eight, my mother remarried and I instantly gained a father figure and a stepfather. It didn’t take very long…the molestation, I mean. I was never quite sure of why it happened; all I can remember was my step father taking me by the hand and making me watch pornographic movies with him. After a while or so, I was forced to follow him into the bathroom where he would make me watch him fondle himself in front of me. It didn’t seem right to me right then, but I felt as though I was supposed to obey him. The abuse went on for several years, till was fifteen...
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...especially my best friend Kaynen and I. It was a normal game like any other that we played before, except it wasn’t for fun this time both teams wanted to win bad. I got the ball and dribbled up court and of course Kaynen was right there in front of me doing everything he can to get the ball. That’s when I did the worst thing I could have, I picked up my...
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...playing basketball is my favorite thing to do and brings joy to my life and family. I have never been good at the whole school thing. I am not an amazing A+ student, and didn’t have the greatest relationship with my family until something great happened. When things aren’t going right I always have basketball to motivate me In high school I was not the best student. I didn’t take it seriously, but that all stopped when I made the varsity basketball team. I didn’t want to disappoint my teammates and wanted to be eligible to play. My freshmen year I couldn’t play in two games because I had bad grades. It was the worst feeling I have ever had and from that point on I was going to do everything I could to get good grades. Basketball motivated me to work hard in school and got me through my four years in high school. I wanted to be that student athlete and not the girl that is good at basketball but cant play because of her grades. If I didn’t play basketball I would not be in college right now. I had to sacrifice a lot of things for basketball such as hanging out with friends. I made a lot of friends playing basketball and my high school team was like my second family to me. We were together all the time. We kept each other from getting into trouble and had each others back. Being so close to my teammates forced me to stop hanging out with the friends that are always getting in trouble and not making the right decisions. Playing basketball has made me realize who my true friends are...
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...Behavioral Interview Questions * Give an example of an occasion when you used logic to solve a problem. * Give an example of a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved it. * Give an example of a goal you didn't meet and how you handled it. * Describe a stressful situation at work and how you handled it. * Tell me about how you worked effectively under pressure. * How do you handle a challenge? * Have you been in a situation where you didn't have enough work to do? * Have you ever made a mistake? How did you handle it? * Describe a decision you made that was unpopular and how you handled implementing it. * Did you ever make a risky decision? Why? How did you handle it? * Did you ever postpone making a decision? Why? * Have you ever dealt with company policy you weren't in agreement with? How? * Have you gone above and beyond the call of duty? If so, how? * When you worked on multiple projects how did you prioritize? * How did you handle meeting a tight deadline? * Give an example of how you set goals and achieve them. * Did you ever not meet your goals? Why? * What do you do when your schedule is interrupted? Give an example of how you handle it. * Have you had to convince a team to work on a project they weren't thrilled about? How did you do it? * Give an example of how you worked on team. * Have you handled a difficult situation with a co-worker? How? * What do you do if you disagree...
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...LIFE Let me ask you a question. In your own point of view, what is life? It’s a simple question yet, hard to explain. Well son I’ll tell you, life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. Is it familiar to you? Haha well it’s from a famous poem written by Langston Hughes. And it’s true. Life is not that easy, there are many challenges to meet. Well for me, life is… a word of course. Let me tell you a story. Hi! I’m Kingston and I’m going to tell you the story of me. Before we go to the end, we start from the beginning right? Okay? Okay. There was a little boy born in the city Vigan. He was the cutest and the most… haha lol just kidding. Okay here’s the real one. My life wasn’t that easy. I always got bullied in school and always be the last one to be chosen in all the activities. I think that my classmates hate me. It’s true but there’s this guy who can accept who am I, the name is Warren Jay Parada. He was my best friend since the last summer for maybe how long? Ohm… 7 months? Yeah well he was the happiest person I’ve met yet, he had the most incurable pain. Why? Well you’ll know this in the next chapter. So Let’s go back to the story… I always got bullied it’s true and the one started it was my so called “FRIEND”, Mr. Rei Christian Presto. Oh, what a nice name but wait it’s the exact opposite of the attitude, personalities, and the face! And all other things. Well he was best friend actually, but since October 2013 he changed. He was insecure! Backstabbing me and teasing...
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...something and that something is the something that made you feel good about yourself. That’s when start to have a better outlook on life. My really good experiences about life aren’t just one big experience, it’s happened multiple times. My first one I can remember is, going to a concert for the first time. The one good thing that has happened in my life is skateboarding. That 7-layered maple wood with pivot metal things and polyurethane wheels is the best thing in my life that’s happened to me. I’ve always played Tony Hawk games and was really good at them but never really got into it until I was 12. I found out one of my best elementary friends Jamie skateboarded. It was 7th grade and all I had was a wal-mart digimon board from when I was in 3rd grade and some Reeboks. I called Jaime over one day so he could teach me how to skate. He said; “I can teach you how to ollie”, which is a simple jump, he maneuvered the board and I said, “wow”. I was so amazed he could do it. After about a week and a half, I could do a pretty stable ollie, I thought I was so cool. After all that my mom bought me my very own pair of skate shoes, which were called Vans. I was becoming a skater more and more, it felt good. Every weekend I would go over Jaime’s house or he would come over mine. He taught me front side 180’s,over spring break. We skated three times in one day early in the morning for about an hour and a half. Then we would go in play a little video games for about 2 hours then go outside again...
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...Hazel Dogs are man’s best friend, and sometimes his only. My dog, Hazel was the best thing that ever happened to me. Even though she was an elderly dog, you could often find her acting like a young puppy. She was a beagle/pointer mix and had short, brown, grey, and white hair. If anyone were to be near her, she would lick them until they were drenched in slobber. She could listen and was the best friend anyone could ask for. Saying goodbye was one of the hardest things I’ve ever have to do. There were many amazing memories with Eloise. For example, when we first took her home, she got into the neighbor's backyard. Then, it took us the whole day to decide on another name for Eloise. After spending a lot of time cooped up in the laundry room talking, my family and I decided on Hazel. Hazel was the best. One winter, we took Hazel with us to cut down a Christmas tree. When we got out of the car and into the snow, she started running around all over the place. After a couple minutes, she was covered in snow and miserably cold. Then, several months later, we got chickens. It only took a couple months for her to figure out how to get inside, and once she did, she killed almost all of them, bringing their dead bodies back...
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