What is the meaning of life;
most people spend their whole lives trying to find the answer only to arrive to
the end, and realized that you are just supposed to live. Simone Elkeles said, “If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is
here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the
here, the now.” From that I understand that you have a short life, you
have to always keep moving forward, and enjoying what you are doing because at
any moment it can all end.
When I was six years old I moved to
the U.S. without knowing a spit of English, honestly I wasn’t too worried
because worried because I was just a kid not really grasping the concept of how
I wasn’t going to be able to communicate with these people, but I got lucky on
the first day of school I met a kid who spoke English and Spanish. Back then I didn’t
realize how nice this kid was being helping the foreigner, and thanks to him I made
it to the second grade able to understand what was going on around me. Unfortunately
Brian moved, he came back in fifth grade, but we weren’t friends. That taught
me something about life the past does not define anything for the future things
can change not always for the best, so you just have to let it happen.
In the third grade I met my best
friend Sam Tuschman we didn’t really have much in common he was good at sports,
better at math, and had more friends. It was an unusual way to meet someone, we
were sitting in class the teacher asked us to take out a sheet of paper because
we were doing does introduction activities since it was a new year, Sam did not
have paper, I gave him one then he was placed next to me, and we have been best
friends since. I learned that anything can happen over a simple jester. I
learned many things from Sam one of the most important things I ever learned
was from him when we were only in the fifth grade. We had gotten into an
argument, I stormed out of his house pissed off not wanting to fix the problem,
that weekend I just stayed home, but then on Monday when I went to the bus stop
Sam just came up to me like nothing had happened. I didn’t understand what was
happening, so I asked why he wasn’t made and he told “ What’s the point of
holding a grudge over something that happened already,” from that point on I have
never found the point in holding a grudge for more than an hour. I gathered the
knowledge to understand that what happens in the past stay there, and it is
your decision about what you want to do next.
When I arrived to middle school
things were very different I had new problems, but also there were benefits. My
writing teacher from sixth grade, Mr. Lewis, taught me that just being yourself
well get you far there is no need to pretend you are something you’re not. He
was always very kind to me, which was the weird part because he was the strictest
teacher in the grade; he once humiliated the biggest kid in the class for not
doing the assignment. Looking back at the work I did in the class I am embarrassed
it is all illogical writing, but Mr. Lewis did not care about that he was just
pleased that I was doing the work and showing improvement. I learned that if
you show potential in something you will get recognition, and it will give you
motivation to better your ability.
The hardest part about middle school
was probably the girls it was a whole new level. I didn’t understand the rules
to this game very well yet, but I got my share of experience. For the first
time ever a girl had asked me to date her, but the only problem was she wasn’t my
type. I didn’t know how to turn this girl down, it was extremely complicated
because if I messed up it could spread that I was a jerk, so I knew I had to be
careful with what I said. I learned that it’s best you just confront those
situations and not try to prolong them because it causes mixed feeling in the
other person. Nothing bad happened, but I ended up being the guy who wanted to
wait till eight to have my first girlfriend.
My final year in America I learned
what people want to see and how I could control them with that. I was in the
mall when I saw auditions to be famous, and of course I was interested that
year I was making YouTube videos with Sam. My mom signed me and my sister up.
The day arrived where we went to show what we were capable of. While I was in
the waiting room I saw my social studies teacher, I asked what he was doing
here he was with his kid, but I never would have thought that because of him
being there I learned something very valuable about people. I and my sister
were interviewed by the person managing the auditions, so I knew what say the
guy loved me for just saying I wanted to have fun. Then came the advertisement they
told me I had to pretend I was in a commercial, they gave me the lines I had to
memorize, and then the scene came on I was supposed to advertise Pepsi cola. My
teacher’s favorite soda was Pepsi he always had one in class, every time he
opened it and took the first sip he would smile, while I was saying my lines I remembered
this, so at the end I looked at the camera said “It’s great,” and gave a little
smile. They love it I got the call back, unfortunately Sylvia didn’t, but then
I learned something else a manager is very expensive. The most important thing I
learned is that giving a little smile and looking happy give people comfort.
This comfort creates relationships because you become an easy person to trust,
and that’s how you can control someone.
My last year of middle school was supposed
to be amazing I was finally the big kind in the school, but I should have
remembered to expect the unexpected. My parents got divorced, and that shaped
me into wanting to be a faithful person. That wasn’t the only thing that happened
I also got to move to Colombia. I went to a school that was up too twelfth grade,
so I didn’t get to be the big kid like I was hoping. It was going to be one
year, but from that I learned parents lie. Nothing I could do about not being
able to move back, I then had two options enjoy it, or live miserably until it
ends. Unfortunately I took the path of being miserable, but I now understand if
I would have just accepted what happened to me I could have had a better time.
I’m not saying I haven’t enjoy the time I’ve spent here, just that it could
have been better, now I know when life gives you lemons just say thank you, and
do whatever you want with them because they are your lemons.
World History eleventh grade was not
what I was expecting because of everything people had said about the class, but
also because I had gotten in to trouble right before the year ended, and I learned
that news spreads fast around the school. I was passing by Ms. Sierra’s class,
and since I was going to have class with her I thought I’d be polite. She knew
my name, I thought that was a good thing, but then she said just because she
knew my name did not mean it was for a good reason. I was not very enthused
about having class with her because I thought she would be hard on me,
nevertheless when we finally had class it was the amazing because we got along
so nicely. From that I learned it’s never late to change the impression someone
has of you as long as you show your true colors.
In world history class we learned
about Hitler and how he caused the holocaust. Something I learned from those
lessons was that people will do crazy things if they believe it is right. Also I
learned that if you have more followers you get away with more just by twisting
words around because what Hitler did was bad, yet the U.S. later cause major
damage in Vietnam with no consciences. I discovered that the government was
corrupt, and molded by those who want the most power. People try to control the
outcome of the world by saying that something is right or better than the
other, but I learned no one can change the world, but change what happens
around their world. I don’t plan on making changes to the world I plan on
making changes on people lives.
Over the years of my education I have
learned many things that molded me into the person I am today. I know that you
have to appreciate what you have, to never look back on what you did wrong but
to look forward on what is going to go right, also that making one person’s day
is better than trying to take control and make the whole world better. No one
can fix the scars we have made on the world all we can do is help them heal.
Citation:
Elkeles,
Simone. "Quotes ." (231 Quotes). N.p., n.d. Web. 04
May 2014. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/corruption.
