Teacher’s Summary
This personal essay explores the profound impact of family challenges, loss, and resilience on personal growth. The author reflects on the emotional journey following their parents’ divorce, the significant role of their grandfather, and the tough decisions made during their move from Poland to Canada. The narrative highlights the importance of listening to others, making difficult decisions, and starting anew after significant life changes. Through these experiences, the author has gained maturity, empathy, and a deep appreciation for family bonds and personal resilience, all of which will guide their future endeavors.
My Life Experience – Lessons Learned from Family, Loss, and Resilience
Experience is that kind of stuff which every human be gain since be born. There are two kind of experience which is bad and good. Therefore, about experience everyone can talk and talk and never finish talking. In the other hand almost everyday of everyone life is experience. In my whole life I have gained and still make new experiences. I learnt how important is to listen other people and how to make a difficult decisions. Also I learnt to start new life once again.
When my dad past away I was very close to my grandfather, in fact he took a place after him. When my mom went to Canada I was living with him and with my brother. He took part in the war and he used to try telling me about his experience, but I did not listen to him. In this case I was only 13 year old and for me that stuff was boring. In fact my friends were more important than to listen to him. I did not take to myself that will come a day that he wills not anymore walking on this earth. However, when he past away I realized my big mistake when I did not listen to him. In other words, his death taught me that listen other people is very important, even when this person is telling stuff that are boring. Definitely, if I only listen it would be great beneficial for me.
That year when my grandfather died my mom did surprise for me telling me that I am coming to her for vacation to Canada. I was so happy, because I knew that I will see her after one year that she left me and my brother. On the whole summer I was spending time with her. In this vacation I got my first job in my life. I was babysitting a child. In addition I could make money to buy something for myself and I was not asking my mom for money. Obviously, summer comes to the end and I had to back to Poland, my mom was thinking to stay me here in Canada. But she gave me permission to make decision by myself if I want to stay in Canada or back to Poland and then she will back after one year to Poland. That was so hard to do it, because I had to choose between my mom and my brother who was in Poland. I decided to back there. Moreover at the airport when I was after the passport examination and I saw my mom from far away I started to regret my decision. Afterward, while I was sitting in the plane I felt that my heart is broken but I was thinking that my brother is in Poland and waiting for me. That was my hard decision but now I know that was right decision because after few months my brother past away. So making decisions is not that easy especially if someone have to decide between people that are very important for this person.
Some people in the world would have a chance to start their life once again. I had that chance when my brother past away. At that time when I buried my brother I buried with him myself. In few months later I left Poland to move to the Canada and live with her and started new life with her. Although, when I immigrate to Canada I left there all my friends, my home as well family. Even though I had my mom by my side I was missing my friend and my family. As a result, I tried to make a new friend and started to live again and forgot about my brother as well about my friends and family from Poland. That taught me that God had better away for me to live and give me a chance to moved to Canada.
All of that are days of my life that were experience for me. During my life until today I learnt much stuff that maybe some people never had. My life experiences were seriously. Some of them though me how to life and forgot about something and some of them though me that not pay attention to listen someone else when is talking. The experience in life makes people more carefully or giving a knowledge about stuff that they didn’t hear before.