Living Life on the Edge Death is certainly the most difficult aspect of life to undergo and losing a loved one can traumatize and emotionally crush a person. When I was six years old and my great-grandfather passed away from a short battle with Multiple Myeloma (a cancer of the bone marrow), I lost the closest, most caring person in my life. His death taught me, at a very young age, the value of life and that in an instant, your life could come to an end.
I learned to live my life without regrets and to do everything in life that I want to do before it is too late. Before my great-grandfather passed away, partly because of my young age, I never really understood death. I never had the chance to truly understand that my life could be gone at any time. His short-lived fight with cancer took him from this world in a matter of months. If my great-grandfather could be taken so quickly, I realized that the same fate could be imminent for myself as well.
Ever since, I have truly changed the way that I look at my life and everything that it entails. I give my all in everything that I do because I know that I may never get a second chance. I believe that trying my hardest in every aspect of my life will help me to be more content with the result of those things. If I try the most that I can and still don’t succeed, I still know that there is no way that I could have put forth more effort in order to alter the outcome of that situation.
At this point in my life I am reaching a point where there are a lot of “lasts” for me. For instance, being a senior, this year is the last year for me to work at my grades so I can get into the colleges that I want to. Also, playing soccer, I am at the point where I am playing my last seasons of club and high school soccer. I want to put as much effort into it as possible so that I can receive scholarships from the college I attend to help pay for my tuition. My great-grandfather was one of the most influential people to me during my early childhood.
The Term Paper on The Death and Life of Great American Cities
For thousands of years, cities have existed, bringing together large numbers of people in common living conditions, complemented by the infrastructure to support the needs of these people, centers of commerce, and the like. In a modern context, cities are planned and executed with practiced precision, in an attempt to create an orderly setting for what has become a hectic way of life in light of ...
When he passed away, I realized that my life could easily end as quickly as the man that I cared so much for. My great-grandfather’s death caused me to realize how precious life is and that it can be gone in a second. I want to accomplish the things that I find crucial enough to leave me with a life lacking regrets. With this new outlook on life, I want to study engineering and succeed at Texas A&M University, where I believe that I would thrive and develop excellently.
