This I Believe Essay
Credo
I believe in the power of appreciating and acknowledging the people you love.
I believe that telling a person you love them even if you are angry can make a difference in how any life event can affect you. Looking back on my life, I don’t remember being mean to my grandmother when she was around but years later my mom told me that this was indeed the case. My grandmother died from stomach cancer and now looking back on that incident I realized the power of treating the ones you love with kindness because you never know when they are going to leave you. I believe in acknowledging and appreciating the ones you love so that you won’t regret what you did and so you don’t look back twenty years from now and feel guilty. With this belief, I can guarantee that when people I love leave, they can leave knowing that I love them.
My Goodbye
I remember talking to my grandmother for the last time. I was about five or six years old and it was over the phone. At that time, I had no idea that it was the last I would ever hear her voice again. I remember speaking into the phone but not hearing any replies, just the silent sound of what seemed like a ghost, slowly inhaling and exhaling. What I was not aware of was the fact that my grandmother was dying from stomach cancer. I whispered my last goodbye to her and just like that, she was gone.
Years later, I realized something that shook my world for quite some time. I learned that right up to the time my grandmother died, I was nasty and mean to her and I didn’t take the time to fully appreciate having her in my life. I soon became immensely guilty and extremely ashamed of myself.
When I was about 13 years old I was reading a story told by a 15 year old girl that expressed her experience of not telling her father she loved him and how it affected her life. The story starts out explaining that she never really had a habit of telling her parents she loved them until one night when she was watching her father work. At that moment she slowly realized that she had never told him that she loved him. She was just about to tell him before going to bed but for some reason she couldn’t make herself say it and instead went to bed with only a goodnight. The next morning her father died unexpectedly and she never got the chance to tell him she loved him. Reading this book really made me think of what I would feel if something like that was to happen to me and the thought of it genuinely scared me.
After suffering through infinite guilt and reading about another person’s tragedy and loss, I realized that it was comparable to my own experience After this realization, I truly believed in the power of not only appreciating people you love but also acknowledging the people you love. By living this belief day in and day out, I can make sure the people I love really know I love them so that when their time comes, they can leave knowing that I do cherish and will always cherish them.
I believe in the power of appreciating and acknowledging the people you love.
I believe that telling a person you love them even if you are angry can make a difference in how any life event can affect you. Looking back on my life, I don’t remember being mean to my grandmother when she was around but years later my mom told me that this was indeed the case. My grandmother died from stomach cancer and now looking back on that incident I realized the power of treating the ones you love with kindness because you never know when they are going to leave you. I believe in acknowledging and appreciating the ones you love so that you won’t regret what you did and so you don’t look back twenty years from now and feel guilty. With this belief, I can guarantee that when people I love leave, they can leave knowing that I love them.
My Goodbye
I remember talking to my grandmother for the last time. I was about five or six years old and it was over the phone. At that time, I had no idea that it was the last I would ever hear her voice again. I remember speaking into the phone but not hearing any replies, just the silent sound of what seemed like a ghost, slowly inhaling and exhaling. What I was not aware of was the fact that my grandmother was dying from stomach cancer. I whispered my last goodbye to her and just like that, she was gone.
Years later, I realized something that shook my world for quite some time. I learned that right up to the time my grandmother died, I was nasty and mean to her and I didn’t take the time to fully appreciate having her in my life. I soon became immensely guilty and extremely ashamed of myself.
When I was about 13 years old I was reading a story told by a 15 year old girl that expressed her experience of not telling her father she loved him and how it affected her life. The story starts out explaining that she never really had a habit of telling her parents she loved them until one night when she was watching her father work. At that moment she slowly realized that she had never told him that she loved him. She was just about to tell him before going to bed but for some reason she couldn’t make herself say it and instead went to bed with only a goodnight. The next morning her father died unexpectedly and she never got the chance to tell him she loved him. Reading this book really made me think of what I would feel if something like that was to happen to me and the thought of it genuinely scared me.
After suffering through infinite guilt and reading about another person’s tragedy and loss, I realized that it was comparable to my own experience After this realization, I truly believed in the power of not only appreciating people you love but also acknowledging the people you love. By living this belief day in and day out, I can make sure the people I love really know I love them so that when their time comes, they can leave knowing that I do cherish and will always cherish them.