During a person's lifetime, everyone
experiences difficulties that they need to work through and overcome. It is how
we choose to cope with them that makes us who we are. When I was little, one of
my uncles had died a week before my eighth birthday. My parents spent a great
deal of time deciding whether or not to tell me, and if they did, how they were
going to do it. After quite some time, they decided that this was something
they could not keep from me, seeing how close I was to him and that I kept
asking about him. When they did finally decide to tell me, I didn’t quite know
how to take it or what to think. Although I was so young, I feel as if I dealt
with the loss better than other children my age, because I had dealt with many
other hardships growing up.
I feel as if going through this
experience can help me make it through college easier in many ways. One of
those being that any difficulty I have went through from that point on has been
a minor speed bump in my life. If I went through something that made me upset
or angry I just stopped and thought about how things could be much worse and
that I was still lucky to see another day. Another way that it can help me is
that now I have a guardian angel looking down on me. He makes sure that I am
safe and make smart decisions.
I would be lying if I said it didn’t
bother me to go through that loss, but I can say that standing here today, I am
a stronger person and I am able to overcome many other difficulties because of
this. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him and how much
he meant to me. I wish he could be here every day with me experiencing all the
things I am, but I know that this cannot happen, and I have accepted that. I
know he is happier and healthier now, and that is all I can wish for. All I
know is that everything happens for a reason.
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