ipl-logo

Never Living Up To My Future

915 Words4 Pages

I had always anticipated what my future would hold. The thought of never living up to my dreams gave me aches in my stomach. My mother did not play a positive role during my childhood, I don’t believe she ever intended on being a role model for her children. I could not tolerate the thought of becoming like her. I did not ever want to depend on someone else to support me. The year of 2010 I graduated with my senior class; that moment I threw my cap up in the air, I knew I was headed towards an adventure. A few months later, I had chosen to say goodbye to California and got on a plane to Wichita, KS to live the independent life with my older sister. I immediately obtained a job at the Walmart Auto Center; I began earning an income and stacking my savings. I knew what path I wanted to be on and there may be some obstacles on the way. 18 made it quite difficult between being responsible and desiring to be, well, an 18-year-old. All the while, I felt like life was a tremendous test in my ability to committing my goals. Tackling through the struggles I managed to work extensive, strenuous hours, even chosen side jobs, and gutted up rental homes for several years to allow myself to accumulate some credit in my account. One afternoon shift I was called into the store manager's office. I was being offered a promotion for the shop …show more content…

Until 2 months later, a wonderful friend and coworker at the shop informed me of an opening position within Textron Aviation; where he worked full time. I tried avoiding being too optimistic, that company typically only hires a person that carries a degree. Despite my lack of education, my friend went ahead and filled out the application for me referencing himself. A week later, I received a phone call from the HR department at Textron requesting me to come in for an interview. My stomach plummeted, I was incredibly stoked, yet simultaneously extremely

Show More
Related
542 Words | 3 Pages

And I was hers. And that belonging-to-each-other thing will never happen for me again” shows that her mom was her strongest supporter. Conversely, dad was not that reliable. It obvious that living without mom is vast and hazy. Dad only take responsibility of the family after Mom got sick.

Read More
245 Words | 1 Pages

In her article, “The Undercurrent”, Kellie Young recalls tales of her childhood and growing up with her worrisome mother and reflects on how this personal background ultimately influenced her own thoughts and actions. From surfing in the early morning, to public restrooms, to leaving home for M.I.T, Young expresses her mother’s incessant and often irrational worries about every possible thing that could go wrong. After examining her past, Young recognizes that her mother’s voice followed her even when she wasn’t around, and unconsciously Young’s voice and her mother’s began to mesh together. As she matures, Young becomes cognizant that her mother’s nagging is not oppressive or confining, but rather a safeguard meant to pull her in from danger

Read More
349 Words | 2 Pages

Have you ever felt unwelcome in your house of where you don’t feel the love you want? Between the two types of poems, “Hanging Fire” and “Teenagers”, the author Pat Mora of the poem “Teenagers best portrays the struggles of a teenager since the mom in the poem explains how her teenage kids are growing up too fast which means they don’t need their mom anymore also how she is talking about the way she used to be close to her kids when they were younger than the age that they are now. The mom in the poem of “Teenagers” is desperate due to the fact that her kids are growing up too fast. In stanza 1 she explains how one day how her kids vanished into their rooms with their doors and lips are shut.

Read More
681 Words | 3 Pages

In a second example, Jenna states, “I should be afraid. Mother would want me to be afraid.”(20). Without a mother to make them be afraid, kids would not know how to behave. They would do stupid things and have no fear. As a result, if a parent thinks about a future where their child is without them, they’ll realize choosing their future was

Read More
970 Words | 4 Pages

Before 2015 a past too abhorrent and a future too intangible cloaked my mind in a way I was rendered unable to pull outside of. Add the intractable disease I was both genetically and environmentally doomed for ─ depression ─ and I was an oh-so joyful culmination of veritable discrepancies. People knew me adverse of how I knew myself: In the midst of my academic accomplishments, I alone recognized my exasperating position in second place.

Read More
637 Words | 3 Pages

With a fresh start and a four companion from middle school that I had befriended over the summers being in North Carolina I knew greatness would be accomplished. I actually gained status because instead of a thousand students to make friends with it was a hundred with roughly a hundred more the following year. I liked what was happening then tragedy struck, I had to move back to Idaho nearly paying off the house in idaho the bank was trying to create a ruckus and not a single payment could be

Read More
2336 Words | 10 Pages

She exposes an individualistic trait which does not conform to the accepted norms of the then society. She wanted a life of her own. She wanted economic independence. I dreamt... someday I 'm going to live... in a corner house on the hill...

Read More
711 Words | 3 Pages

But I was not my grandfather. I was not like my mother. I was not my father” (Lockhart, 200). This quote shows her recognition from her past faults and how much she wants to grow out the faults she made to become a better person. Later on in the story, she shows how much she does to prove that she can learn from her mistakes.

Read More
1090 Words | 5 Pages

A moving piece written by Jane Kenyon titled as, “Let Evening Come” expresses what the main essence of life is, and the importance of now. What struck me the most in her beautifully written piece was in the last stanza of her poem where she states, “Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come” (1252). Generally, most people would associate evening into darkness or something that is terrifying. However in that passage from her poem, it asserts that there is no need to be afraid with the darkness that comes in our way because truly there is something beautiful beyond that.

Read More
673 Words | 3 Pages

When that interview was over, I felt as if I had been run over by a train. I was so mentally exhausted from the barrage of questions I could’ve easily just crawled into my car and fallen asleep. I thought I had handled myself well and as I left the room was told that after checking with my references, they would be in contact with me, one way or another, “in a few days.” Unfortunately, those few days took a lot longer than expected.

Read More
345 Words | 2 Pages

When my husband, Joe and I had to short-sale our home it gave us an opportunity to re-evaluate our life goals. Packing to move brought many discoveries of forgotten ideas and plans that we put on hold to raise our three daughters. We had been married for seventeen years and were curious about moving out of California. We had always talked about moving to Oregon so I got started on the research.

Read More
233 Words | 1 Pages

Depression can lead person to a place full of anger, hate and loss. It makes people get lost in their thoughts as they start thinking a lot and it usually happens because of a reason. The poem “Explaining my depression to my mother” by Sabrina Benaim is a free verse poem that explains the depression of a teenager because of the death of her father but what depressed her more was her mother as she forces her to do things she doesn’t want to do. The poet uses many conventions to attract the reader’s attention and to make the poem more interesting, clear and creative.

Read More
581 Words | 3 Pages

My journey consisted of many good and bad times, and throughout the years I discovered my strengths and weaknesses. I made new friends, took on different tests, accomplished many things. My first year was my most difficult, being new to the school, but as the years went by, school became a more fun experience for me. Knowing that the 4 years of high school was a journey for me, I was able to brace myself for the difficult times to come and the rewards I was going to receive. At the end of the journey, I had gained a lot from these 4 years, but it also prepared me for my next journey, my journey through university.

Read More
874 Words | 4 Pages

Not once did Kim’s daughter ever see Kim break down and cry, give up, or hate the world. Of course Kim wondered what life would be like if she waited to have a child, but she knew she was only given what she could handle. Kim’s dream were just to be successful and give her daughter the life she missed. What my mother dreamed is what what my mother

Read More
1010 Words | 5 Pages

The essay is written by Jean Kwok who is a Chinese American writer, and her short story was publish in 2012. “Ah, Amitabha, Buddha of great compassion, I whisper, help her to understand that all I have done, I have done because it was the only choice I had.” As every other mother there will come a time in your life where you have to make some choices that you may not like, but you know it is necessarily for you and your family. You will be in a situation where you have no other choice but to do what you think in a longer term will be the best; even dough the consequent may be Cuvier.

Read More

More about Never Living Up To My Future

Related Topics

Open Document