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Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.
All my most life changing moments were unpredictable. They all happened at an unpredictable time, with the most unpredictable company, with the most unpredictable of things. This life changing experience happened with a brownie pan.
I held my brownie pan close to chest as I walked up to the hospital steps. My hand shook slightly as I opened the door and was greeted by the cold air conditioned breeze which made me shiver despite the warm pan in my hand. I slowly walked to the front desk, got my badge, and was led to the hospital room.
"Manda will be very glad that you came to visit. She has had a very rough day", the nurse told me as she led me to the door. I had come to the hospital to from a program that my religious institution had set up. Basically, everyone would be given a slip on which a child's name and what they wanted for Christmas. Anyone who knew me knew that I would be all over this opportunity because I volunteered everywhere and anywhere. My slip simply wrote "Manda" and underneath it "Brownies". I thought simple enough. I didn't think much of the trip until I was in front of her door. What if I react wrong? What is she does not like me? So many questions swirled around my brain. I was scared to see her in a state of weakness. I was scared to face the reality of her disease. I slowly breathed in and released it as I mustered all my courage to not run out of the hospital. I balanced the brownie pan in my hand and opened the door.
And there she was. A girl around the age of 12, sitting on her bed with her hospital robe flipping through the channels. She turned to me as soon as I walked in. Immediately I knew that she had suffered from cancer by the effects of chemo on her body. Regardless, the moment I looked at her I felt an angelic presence. Her eyes glittered as she said hello. After I introduced myself I gave her the brownies. And that was the moment she gave me the biggest smile I have ever seen. It was a genuine smile of gratitude. It eternally filled my heart with joy. The brownies took me less than 30 minutes to bake however the result I got from it will last me an eternity. I had not realized it before, but my entire high school life was filled with me volunteering at the food bank, the homeless shelter, and a free clinic. I was signing up to help the community right and left. It was engrained in me to always want to help. I realized after this experience that all I wanted to do with my life is to know that I left a legacy. I have no intention in becoming a leader but I do fully intend to leave an imprint in as many lives as I can. Weather it is to bring brownies to sick patients in the hospital or build a school for the underprivileged kids in Bangladesh (a goal I one day wish to achieve) or paint a picture for my mom or even build new technology for the world(many of my life goals), I feel the most warmth when I know that somebody smiled because of me. Many people tell me that riding me future on peoples smiles and satisfaction can be unsatisfactory however I know that it is my comfort zone. This is when I feel the most happy. All my life I have been doing things for the community, for the smiles and for my legacy. It just seems the most pragmatic to lead my life the way that I can be the most happy, the most satisfied. There is so much sadness and darkness in the world. I want to get that same feeling I got when I gave that girl the brownies.
Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.
All my most life changing moments were unpredictable. They all happened at an unpredictable time, with the most unpredictable company, with the most unpredictable of things. This life changing experience happened with a brownie pan.
I held my brownie pan close to chest as I walked up to the hospital steps. My hand shook slightly as I opened the door and was greeted by the cold air conditioned breeze which made me shiver despite the warm pan in my hand. I slowly walked to the front desk, got my badge, and was led to the hospital room.
"Manda will be very glad that you came to visit. She has had a very rough day", the nurse told me as she led me to the door. I had come to the hospital to from a program that my religious institution had set up. Basically, everyone would be given a slip on which a child's name and what they wanted for Christmas. Anyone who knew me knew that I would be all over this opportunity because I volunteered everywhere and anywhere. My slip simply wrote "Manda" and underneath it "Brownies". I thought simple enough. I didn't think much of the trip until I was in front of her door. What if I react wrong? What is she does not like me? So many questions swirled around my brain. I was scared to see her in a state of weakness. I was scared to face the reality of her disease. I slowly breathed in and released it as I mustered all my courage to not run out of the hospital. I balanced the brownie pan in my hand and opened the door.
And there she was. A girl around the age of 12, sitting on her bed with her hospital robe flipping through the channels. She turned to me as soon as I walked in. Immediately I knew that she had suffered from cancer by the effects of chemo on her body. Regardless, the moment I looked at her I felt an angelic presence. Her eyes glittered as she said hello. After I introduced myself I gave her the brownies. And that was the moment she gave me the biggest smile I have ever seen. It was a genuine smile of gratitude. It eternally filled my heart with joy. The brownies took me less than 30 minutes to bake however the result I got from it will last me an eternity. I had not realized it before, but my entire high school life was filled with me volunteering at the food bank, the homeless shelter, and a free clinic. I was signing up to help the community right and left. It was engrained in me to always want to help. I realized after this experience that all I wanted to do with my life is to know that I left a legacy. I have no intention in becoming a leader but I do fully intend to leave an imprint in as many lives as I can. Weather it is to bring brownies to sick patients in the hospital or build a school for the underprivileged kids in Bangladesh (a goal I one day wish to achieve) or paint a picture for my mom or even build new technology for the world(many of my life goals), I feel the most warmth when I know that somebody smiled because of me. Many people tell me that riding me future on peoples smiles and satisfaction can be unsatisfactory however I know that it is my comfort zone. This is when I feel the most happy. All my life I have been doing things for the community, for the smiles and for my legacy. It just seems the most pragmatic to lead my life the way that I can be the most happy, the most satisfied. There is so much sadness and darkness in the world. I want to get that same feeling I got when I gave that girl the brownies.