For the common application I've decided to write a personal experience that has changed my life , Its my first essay and I really need external opinions . Feel free to make any suggestions!
The most important experience caught me at an unexpected time. I had always considered my family as "perfect". Since I was little, I grew up with the idea that we were different and that we will never face a crisis. And even though we have had problems, that idea still remained in my head until the beginning of this year when I faced my first family crisis.
At the beginning, the only thing I could feel was anxiety. I thought that my family will never work the same way it did before. In two months I had many doubts about what to do and how to react towards the problem, of course the first thing I did was to avoid any type of situation that could bring me any kind of trouble to me or to my family, I didn't want my parents and sisters to have more worries so we could solve the situation we were going through. As time went by, I started to develop a feeling of despair, since I couldn't accept the fact of losing that stability for so long and risking everything we had fight for as a family. During this period I kept the same attitude and took advantage of that time to think about life in a general aspect. At first I let emotions intervene into my analysis, which didn't help me to solve anything, but then I started seeing things independently; leaving every emotion aside and that enabled me to reach the most important and useful conclusion for me about life that not only helped me to solve the current problem itself, it also created in me an attitude towards life.
Life is full of troubles and obstacles and if you don't know to accept them, they will never get solved. Some will be difficult and even painful, others will be easy to fix but still will affect you in some way. It is not about avoiding or hiding problems. What will make you successful is knowing how to handle and accepting problems in order to enable yourself to work on them. Of course it's not easy and can be really long and tedious but if you don't take time to do it, nobody else will do it for you. I know this can be a known advice and a lot of people might have heard this but what makes it special and important to me is that I had to learn it with a rough experience and that's why it has a great impact in my life. Sometimes, just listening is not enough to understand what life is about.
The most important experience caught me at an unexpected time. I had always considered my family as "perfect". Since I was little, I grew up with the idea that we were different and that we will never face a crisis. And even though we have had problems, that idea still remained in my head until the beginning of this year when I faced my first family crisis.
At the beginning, the only thing I could feel was anxiety. I thought that my family will never work the same way it did before. In two months I had many doubts about what to do and how to react towards the problem, of course the first thing I did was to avoid any type of situation that could bring me any kind of trouble to me or to my family, I didn't want my parents and sisters to have more worries so we could solve the situation we were going through. As time went by, I started to develop a feeling of despair, since I couldn't accept the fact of losing that stability for so long and risking everything we had fight for as a family. During this period I kept the same attitude and took advantage of that time to think about life in a general aspect. At first I let emotions intervene into my analysis, which didn't help me to solve anything, but then I started seeing things independently; leaving every emotion aside and that enabled me to reach the most important and useful conclusion for me about life that not only helped me to solve the current problem itself, it also created in me an attitude towards life.
Life is full of troubles and obstacles and if you don't know to accept them, they will never get solved. Some will be difficult and even painful, others will be easy to fix but still will affect you in some way. It is not about avoiding or hiding problems. What will make you successful is knowing how to handle and accepting problems in order to enable yourself to work on them. Of course it's not easy and can be really long and tedious but if you don't take time to do it, nobody else will do it for you. I know this can be a known advice and a lot of people might have heard this but what makes it special and important to me is that I had to learn it with a rough experience and that's why it has a great impact in my life. Sometimes, just listening is not enough to understand what life is about.