Positive Event That Has Influenced My Life

In my life there have been a lot of positive and negative experiences that have influenced me. But the most influential positive thing that happened in my life was getting accepted into college and the most negative and impactful things were being fired from a job I worked really hard to get and having a long time relationship end.

Getting into college was the most positive influential event that has happened in my life. It was something that I had not planned on doing but when the chance came too, I went for it and never looked back. I was not the type of person who would be interested in a party life style and the college way of living. I was way too introverted and liked to stick to myself and I saw college as a chance to change that about me. I decided to go 3 hours away from home for school as well. This was the best decision I made to date because I was able to make a large set of friends, met my girlfriend at the time and got my first real money making job. College allowed me to do all these things. It was so positive for my person that I would not consider myself the same person this day. After I was able to break out of my shell, I was able to meet someone who I spent a lot of time with. I never had a serious girlfriend before and it was something I really enjoyed about life. We spent lots of time together and I even moved in with a girl, which was something I never thought I would do in college. I was also able to go out and interview for jobs and I landed a job in the catering kitchen here on campus. It was the first job I had where I was given real responsibility with people and inventory to manage. I loved being able to manage different factors to the larger picture and it would not have happened if I didn’t take the leap and head off to school away from home and friends.

After having these positive events takes place the negative ones were also a repercussion of some person choices I made. After getting into school, and getting a job. I started to become entitled to things like time off and going out. The most negative event would be me deciding I did not have time for a relationship because I wanted to go out and see friends. I was being very selfish and I didn’t take into account how she was feeling about the whole thing. I never took the time to sit and talk to her about how I was feeling and what I wanted to do differently. I just acted, and now I regret that decision to this day because that was my first “love” and I let her go over my own selfish decisions. The second most negative event happened to take place at the same time as my break up but I lost my job because I did not communicate well with my boss when my personal life started to falter. Rather than telling him I was not feeling well and should take maybe a day or two off I called into work sick and lied about what was going on. When the lie caught up to me, my boss had to fire me because I broke a clearly stated rule. After that I thought about what I could have done differently and how a simple phone call could have kept my job. These negative events happened due to my own selfishness they were not caused by other people but my own choices then living with those choices I made. The positive events in life are great because you are the person to get the credit for it. But when it is a negative event the only person there is to blame is you.