My life has been something full of experiences, from I have learned what I know. Those experiences have gave me the tools to live every day with more knowledge. This helps me to do everything with a better idea about life and about the world. Off course, I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but those mistakes have formed the knowledge and expereience that I have, without those mistakes I would not be the person that I am. Once, I read an article that said that mistakes are the best way to learn, so that is really normal to have mistakes in life bacause those help us understand many things and finally reach for success. Last Saturday, during the TOEFL test I had to make an essay which was about success, in which I expressed all my feelings and thoughts about it; including some possibles strategies to reach it. All the mistakes in life are like new challenges to prove how we grow up and mature as persons.
Thinking about every situation in my life, I would change many things but I really do not know where to start. I would prefer to mention thinks that I would change but at the same time I would like to change because those mistakes have formed who I am and have teach me many things that help me now and will help me in the present.
When I was born, my parents were economically stable, everything was geat. We could go every two years to Disney. As the time passed, everything changed, our las trip was to The Bahamas in 2001, and then my parents suffered an economically imbalance. SinceI was eleven years old, I have been growing up with the economically imbalance, and the problem is that I have not received the same opportunities as my brother and sister have received. Two years before my brother graduated, my parents gave him a car and his graduation’s gift was a trip to Europe with his friends. My sister have also received other type of opportunities; she received painting classes and also went to many psychologist, which reperesent a amount of money. These examples does not mean that I have not received many other provileges, but I have grown up in the reality of myfamily, in the economical reality, and the only explanation for my reactions is that I have to accept the reality and live happy with it. The mistakes that I have made over this situation, is that sometimes I get really mad because life s not fair and I would like that I could have the same opprtunities, but then after I have a fight with my parents, I realize that I made a big mistake. They give me everything they can, and I have to accept it and live happy with it, as I said before. Almost 3 month ago, I realized that my dream was to study in another country, but after I found some information about some universities, my father told me that, because of economical reasons, he cannot pay an university, expect the university Landivar. At first, when he told me that, i got really mad, but then I understood that he was dong the best he can, so I apologized and understood the reallity.
Another mistake that I did in the past years of my life, is that I could not keep strong relationships with my friends, which is something that now I am really sorry about it. I do not know why I could not handle strong relationships, but I needed those friendships in my life. I think that it was because many mistakes that I made in the past friendships that I had, but now those problems have taught me the methods to change many things in my attitude, just be a better person. Now, I have great friendships that I hope that last forever. Every time that my friends and I have a problem, we find out the way to foregive each other and grow up into the friendship. My friends are really special and now, because of the mistakes I made in the past, everything has change and by friendships have lst many time and this is just the beggining of a happy life with true and close friends.
In conclusion, I have done many mistakes in my life, but even though I would like to change those mistakes, I know that they have helped me to change as a persons. Now, I realized that every mistake is just a step in life that even though it has negative consequences, it also have long term positive consequnces that will last forever. Those consequences make me grow as a person and lead me to succeed in life, just by learning from the positive and negative situations.
