Act like you are grateful to be in College

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When I was 18 I was invincible. Nothing could stop me. I got a 26 on the ACT, and a 30 in the reading comprehension. My whole life I just assumed I would enter a university graduate at 22, and nothing would stop me from my goals.

Then my first semester in college I flunked out I have a chronic illness, and that fall I lost sixty pounds at six foot I weighed 100 pounds. My biggest mistake is I lacked gratitude. I could blame my lack of education on my myriad of issues, but it won't do my homework. It won't squeeze the knowledge of the electron transport system into my brain.

This was before the ACA so I went without treatment for months all the while bleeding internally. I went to community college only for the health insurance. I wasn't grateful to be there I was toed. I was better than cc, or so I thought.

Years later I lost my job that I was making 50k a year, because of a 60% turnover rate, and rampant uncontrolled depression that I still struggle with. So I went back to school, and got a job at a gas station to help pay for it, I was lucky I had thousands in savings so I could finish the first two years debt free.

I was getting a 4.0 at midterm, I was determined to get a 4.0 despite working 30 hours a week. I developed a pneumonia, but continued going to work and school seven days a week. Take care of your health mine nearly derailed me.

I developed an 11cm lung abscess at 26, and nearly died. I was ready to sign AMA to take my finals I would rather die than miss out on college again. They obliged me, I was diligent in my antibiotic treatments I got better, and I salvaged all As and Bs despite missing two weeks.

Some people are better than me, could have handled my situation better I admit it, but I was doing the best I could. Now I am just grateful to sit in college again, because once something is taken away from you, you learn its true value.

So act like you are grateful to be in school, because for many people the opportunity slips through their fingers. Sometimes its their fault, sometimes its not, but usually its a little bit of both.

I am back at cc I graduate with an associate in science this spring, I am a student tutor, and I am unbelievably grateful for the effect community college has had on my life, and the opportunity to go back I have been granted.

So don't take it for granted I was lucky I got a second chance at it many people don't.

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Wow - the words of Maya Angelou come to mind

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”

― Maya Angelou

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Wow - the words of Maya Angelou come to mind

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”

― Maya Angelou

For the longest time I was a pessimistic, and the universe just kept seeming to oblige my viewpoint with everything that happened.

Then my stats professor said something that made me pause. "Statistically speaking if you have had a harder time than most, the odds are in your favor that things will improve." So I banked on it, and slowly they have.

So I keep going to college, I may not be a nurse, but it looks like I will at least have a science degree, so I should be able to get into a decent 4 year, and get my bachelors. In the end its what makes me happy.

Maybe I needed those things to appreciate where I am at now, who knows. I wish I could go back 7 years, and do it right the first time regardless of the obstacles. I was young, and thought "why me". It doesn't really matter maybe there was a reason, maybe there wasn't what is done I done.

Thank you for your kind quote. I hope you don't think I was trying to be pescimistic, its just what I wouldn't do to go back 7 years knowing what I know now, oh well.

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I think you should try writing an article about your personal story and how you persevered! I like the articles on here especially ones that share their stories and what they wish they could have known starting out.

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I think you should try writing an article about your personal story and how you persevered! I like the articles on here especially ones that share their stories and what they wish they could have known starting out.

Thank you, I actually did. If you read it try not to judge me, it is deeply personal, and I wrote it because my life is slowly turning around. I also want others to learn from my mistakes.

Its featured on AN breakroom in philosophy/ethics/ and religion. I am at work right now so I will provide a link when I get home if you are interested.

And thanks.

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I don't quite know how to get to the break room...I can't seem to find it in the forums lists.

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I don't quite know how to get to the break room...I can't seem to find it in the forums lists.

It's not accessible on the app.

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The nature of love, a story about Agape. | allnurses

Here is the link. As I Said. It is a short summary of my adult life essentially.

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