Life Is Like a Box of Chocolates.
In everyone’s life, people go through steps, obstacles, and challenges that shape them into the individuals they are. Common obstacles in everyone’s life are their adolescent years. As everyone can attest, the adolescent years may be the most fun but also the hardest, most emotional, and most rough times in everyone’s life. To become individuals, we all have to go through our own journey, which includes the letdowns and miracles because it is what builds us to be the person we grow up to be. Some people may waste life, some may rush through it, but the ones who cherish every moment and live every minute as it was their last, get the richest experience life has to offer. Life is a mystery, and you never know what is going to be handed to you. Just like when Tom Hanks said, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get". To get life’s richer experiences, take risks, have fun, and take on critical decisions instead of being afraid of them.
In my life, there have been several people who have made the most impact in my life, and my number one fan, although our relationship has been up and down is my mother. My mother has never pushed me aside, and has always kept me under her angelic wings like the precious son I am to her. I have disappointed her time after time, but she has never given up on me. Although there have been times where she said she’s one incident shy, but I know my mother’s strength, and she’ll never give up on me because she wants me to succeed.
Another fan of mine that I have been able to learn from in my lifetime is my dad, which is. He has taught me one of life’s most valuable lessons, and that’s to take a deep breath and bite my tongue. I have always had a temper as a young kid and now that I am older, it becomes exerting in different ways, but it still exists. With his help, there has been several times where I saved myself from severe groundings because I stopped my rant, and took a deep breath.
Throughout my life long journey, and of course alike to everyone else, the world has thrown sticks and stones that have made me want to quit, and had almost convinced me to a suicidal act. We all are different, express ourselves differently, but what I do not understand is why we are constantly critiqued and judged by other people. A few years ago, I met the two best friends of my life, and they taught me to be myself and swallow whatever people may shove down your throat, or write on your wall, comment, or criticize about me. This has been one of the biggest impacts of my life, because instead of acting like a person I was not, I started to become comfortable in the shoes I owned, not the one’s I borrowed from the critics and the stubborn teenagers lingering around my school.
To accomplish a well-defined and memorable life, I have conjured up a few ways to make a memorable life possible, in a detailed, but easy step-by-step process.
The first step to achieve a richer life experience is to seize every day, and every moment like it was your last. If you have an optimistic approach on life, then think of everyday as a gift. Life is precious, and every day you live is a gift, that’s why you call it the present. You must live in the moment, not wait for the moment, or push the moment aside, live each minute like a clock ticking its sixty seconds in front of your own eyes, because you will enrich your life that way. When you wake up every morning, and as the sun is beaming through your windows, take a deep breath and greet your morning to a fresh start and a good day.
The next step to achieve life’s treasure is to be adventurous. You need to explore life and live on the edge as you embrace new challenges. Go on vacation, visit new places with friends and family and take the fork in the road that no one else dares to take. Do not follow the same old everyday routines, mix it up, and live with a craving for adventure. Some people say that a journal is beneficial to an individual during their life’s experience. I completely agree because you can record precious moments and have them forever. Journaling cranks up the value of your life.
Another mechanism to achieving life’s riches is to accept yourself and love yourself and others. Challenge yourself to stand in front of a mirror completely naked, look at your body and honestly believe there is nothing wrong with you. Especially in today’s society, we look in the mirror and want to change almost everything about us. We want to rid ourselves of our uniqueness and model the rest of the world’s lustful expectations. This lack of self-acceptance has become so scarce that there are doctor’s making millions, if not billions, changing people’s nose shape, enlarging woman’s breasts, shaping a woman’s butt and all with our common resource, plastic. Doctor’s and plastic surgeons live well off from our self-disgust and lack of self-acceptance. We see it in a magazine and we want to be it.
So make the best out of your life, use the gifts you were given, and go out the front door with sunshine in your smile. So instead of sulking about the bad times, mourning about the regrets, I decided to take charge and live life to its fullest, laugh as loud as I want, be as immature as I want, and most of all be who I am because that’s truly what I want. Everyone wants to be him or herself, but many people aren’t because there is some burden that has been placed on them. Whether it is everyday judgmental acquaintances, work status quo, low self-esteem, it drags the world into a slum because the world is missing out on the bright, shining individual you are when you hide it.
As 17 years of my life have gone by, I have learned many things, but as I mentioned earlier, the best part is when you make lemonade. My testimony for everyone is to make lemonade, and don’t be afraid to share it, look at the clock and don’t waste a minute, and look at yourself with confidence because everyone is unique and that is okay.
By: Ali khadem.