College Admissions Essay: Miserable Vs. Strong

Miserable vs. Strong Carlos Castenada once said,”We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” If you know me, or probably if you don’t but have seen me before, you can tell that I am a nervous person. But what you can’t tell just by seeing, is all of the battles that I’ve gone through in my life that have shaped me to become the person that I am today. In the fall of 2015, I faced one of these hardships with a mindset that everything that happens to me will cause only bad repercussions. The first day of freshman year I was extremely nervous to say the least, my palms were sweaty, I was shaking and I had this crazy feeling in my stomach. I don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous as I was that day. But then the nervousness wore off little by little once I saw how nervous every other freshman was. The first week quickly passed by but I still felt sad because I missed all of my friends from my old school and on top of that, the same week I started school, my only sister and closest friend had just started her freshman year at ECU. My feeling of loneliness quickly led to me being so depressed that often I would come home from school and cry. Many weeks passed by and suddenly it was November. My favorite months are definitely November and December but that wasn’t the case this time. In November my church always attends a christian youth event called Pilgrimage where 5,000 youth get together and worship God in this huge arena by songs,
You need to realize that you are the one in control of how you handle life and you pretty much control the repercussions of moments in life. That thing that you’ve been worrying about isn’t as bad as it seems and you need to pursue your life in an optimistic “you’ve only got once chance” mindset. So, will you make yourself miserable? Or will you make yourself