Life Changing Moments

I feel like everyone around me has had these life changing moments that they were able to go back and reflect on. To me this felt like something that defines greatness in a person. In a sense it was my own personal American dream, a longing to have some great defining moment of adversity in my life that I had to overcome in order to be great. Obviously this seemed a little silly but also important to me because I wanted a sense of accomplishment, something that my parents couldn't give me because then I feared I would become entitled and get nothing done ever.

So I set out to make my mark in college and find my great challenge. I thought that through my course schedule, I could achieve this challenge but physics didn't prove to be as much of an obstacle as I had thought. I thought that if my classes couldn't challenge me academically then how could I find my place in the world. It wasn't until Dr. Qubein stated that the purpose of his seminars was so that we could learn but also go back and reflect on the lessons we had learned and apply them to our lives, did I see my own challenges. For the first time I saw what I had accomplished in my life but it still seemed quite...insignificant to what others had accomplished. I then took another step back further from my mind to see that I was only 19 years old, and while I certainly hadn't done anything crazy to make my mark on the world, maybe it wasn't a bad thing either because I am after all only 19.

The power of positive thinking as well as Dr. Qubein's seminars have radically changed my life. Although I was on an "upward trend" coming out of High School with my academics improving far beyond my middle school days I felt like my life didn't start to change until now. At this point in my life I'm getting a job tutoring Spanish and I am moving into the honors program next semester and getting my first car. So I'd say my life hasn't yet had one defining moment but the little things do add up to make you into the person you are today.