5. In looking back on
your life, you may be able to identify particular “turning points” – episodes
through which you experienced an important change in your life. Please choose
one key turning point scene and describe it in detail. If you feel your life
story contains no clear turning points, then describe a particular episode in
your life that comes closer than any other to qualifying for a turning point –
a scene where you changed in some way. Again, please describe what led up to
the event, what happened in the event, where and when it happened, who was
involved, what you were thinking and feeling, and so on. Also, please tell me
how you think you changed as a result of this event and why you consider this
event to be an important scene in your life story today.
“We all change when you
think about it. We’re all different people all throughout our lives.”
– The Doctor
I think the biggest
turning point in my life happened in the summer of 2014. It was the 4th
of July at around 10:30 p.m. There was a basketball court just a few minutes’
walk from where I was living and I decided to go out to it and watch the
fireworks. I walked out to the court and decided to lay down on the concrete to
watch the fireworks. After the fireworks were done it was about 11 o’clock but
still quite warm out, and I decided to stay and just watch the sky, which is
something I don’t normally take time to do. During this time the clouds and the
sky seemed the most interesting, beautiful, and important view in the world to
me. While watching the sky I began to be introspective about my life at that
moment, and what I was happy and unhappy with. I was viewing my positive and
negative attributes in a way that I had never view them before. I thought about
what I thought was important and valuable to me in life, such as wanting to
travel the world and experience just how amazing, and ever changing the world
is, because I realized that it only lasts of a second, and then it’s gone. I
promised myself in that moment that I was not going to waste my life waiting
for positive things to happen to me, that I was going to go out and make my own
story. Since that time I have done exactly that. I spend my time experiencing
all that I can, while making memories with friends, and good people.
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