reflective self-analysis essay

Significance of life

Many events that happen in one's life contribute a lot in shaping their attitudes toward education and just education in general. Often people face different obstacles that they have had to overcome to move forward, and they need a lot in life. Traumatic events that occur in one's life are some of the reasons as to why one would take matters of education more seriously in their lives. This is a result of a lesson they have learned from someone close to them, and they would want to use such a lesson to better their lives and become people of value in life. Education is one thing that makes an individual the best person on earth. In my life, I went through a tragedy when I was still so young, at below the age of five. This tragedy helped me to always want to push and strive for the best in my life. I have always grown up wanting to be a better person because of what I went through in my life as I was growing up. I realized that being educated would greatly change the life of an individual by enabling one to land a well-paying job and many doors being opened for life.

My mother’s alcoholism had a great impact on my life today. It is not always a door opening for many people, but it means the closure of a door. Luckily on my side, I learned from someone's mistakes, which has helped in shaping up my life. One very disturbing and traumatic event that I had to go through in my life as I was growing up was seeing my mother drink alcohol. One thing I trust and believe is that was it that my mother was educated, or if she could have gone to college just to further her knowledge, my mother would not have resorted to drinking alcohol. This because if my mother could have gone to college, she could have followed a career path that could have changed her life by wanting to achieve more in life than just thinking of alcohol day in, day out. My mother's alcoholic nature played a major role in changing my views on education because I would not want to follow her footsteps; unlike my mother, I would want to go far in life, and the only wheel I can use, is education. I want to follow and pursue all my hopes and dreams. My mother's decision to not go to school and college cost her more of a fortune than going to college.

My mother’s health and care for her family was greatly destroyed by her way of drinking. Usually, people use the phrase, “if you have good health and good family, you are already wealthy." For my mother's, this never clicked in her mind, she had lost a lot of her life during this time. She, lost quality time with her loved ones. Alcohol robbed my mother, all of these. The sense of caring for her children, and that of embracing her loved ones in the family. I am sure my father never enjoyed the love he expected, for alcohol, which sounded my than the minds of my mother, could not recognize what love is. Because of what I saw in my mother, I made up my minds to be rich; I want to have a great job, I want to commit my life to wake up in the morning every day, going to the office to work, I want to have a family that would always be there for one another. A family that will always be happy; I want a job that is well paying, to provide for my family.

Another event of which I have witnessed in my life is my father's life. My father was one of the luckiest people on earth; he got a very well-paying job. He worked in the movie industry even though he never went to college, and therefore he never had a college degree. This, currently, is close to an impossible mission. My father did not love going to a job every day. This puzzled my mind greatly; I could see my father going through many thoughts before he ever left the house for a job. I had to ask my father, "Daddy, why do you not like your job"? The way my father looked at my face could explain everything; the job was not one of the things my father liked in his life; he shook his head, and told me, "attain your education, so that you can choose what to do in your life, your circumstances should not choose for you what to do in life." Since then, the sound of my father is still fresh in my mind, I must learn so that I can choose the job I want. My father did not like going to work every day because of the insane number of hours he could spend in the movie industry. This experience, these events changed my view of life. Education is the key; I came to terms with this phrase because of what I have gone through. I would taste my father's life in my own life; what I want and what I have resorted to is having a great education that will help me choose my job, but not let my circumstances select for me what I have to do like for my father. My father's lack of education could not allow him to choose what to do; I had to do whatever he got to provide for his family.

I would conclude by saying that witnessing and experiencing some events life would greatly shape a person's attitude in what they would like to achieve in life. For these events that occurred in my family, the key issue that lacked here is education. If my parents had education, our lives could have been different, we would have experienced motherly love, our father could have enjoyed what he did on the job, but alcohol robbed my mother of her senses, for the lack of education, my father never enjoyed his work. I, therefore, must embrace education to bring back the family glory in my life.