I stepped through the door to my grandmother and grandfather's home without even a knock. My grandpa looked up from the television he was watching from his cozy comer chair. He had a head of snowy white hair gleaming in the room. Over his broad body hung a navy blue dress shirt and a fuzzy cardigan sweater. He wore slacks, held up awkwardly by a belt, allowing his small potbelly to hang over it. His face showed the years of worry and stress, and his white bushy eyebrows and growing second chin showed his old age. His smile greeted me. As I drew close to him, his aging arms reached out and wrapped around my body and pulled me into a warm.
loving hug. As he released me from the hug, I said, "Grandpa, I have some news I want you to hear" as I plopped down in the chair beside him. "I wanted to let you know that I am getting married," I told him.
The room was left in a dead silence, frozen for a brief period of time, as we recovered from the intensity of the news I had brought him. Reaching for the remote to turn off the television, my grandfather looked at me. Before he could say a word, the excitement of an unseen grandmother came from the kitchen. Both our eyes looked toward the cheerful light and the sounds of my grandmother's excitement As the excitement faded away, his eyes turned toward mine. Awaiting his comments, my eyes.
were open wide. Excitement had filled my body, because of the news I had just brought him. "Wonderful, go ahead and tell me all about it," he exclaimed.
Well, I woke up this morning just as I always do, but this time it was to the ringing of.
the phone. I reached for the phone and said "Hello," and on the other end was my boyfriend. He said he needed to see me as soon as possible, so I said "OK," and went to meet him. When I arrived at his house, he met me at the door and asked me to come in and have a seat on the couch, I was a little worried at this time. I sit down on the couch and he kneeled down in front of me on one knee, I just looked at him knowing now, what he was up to.
This is a trait I hate about myself but yet I never have tried to change it. ... The life was literally taken out of her. ... Their life could resume back to usual. ... You want to hold on forever. ... My dad assured me this was real life. ...
The Day My Life Changed It was summer break in June 1994 and my two brothers and I were spending the summer with my Father. ... I remember thinking how Jason had changed that summer after his visit. ... I went to bed not knowing that that night would change my life. ... What seemed like forever for the paramedics to come actually was. ... The struggles we go through in life can either change us for better or worse. ...
This is day 0, out of the 16 years of his life. ... My thoughts are never silenced, but I am forever muted. There have been people in my life who I have loved so much and been crushed at the fact that the hatred they hold for me is forever in stone. ... No pill or person can change my train of thought. If I can't change me, no one can change me. ...
The swimming pool located in the back yard is opened yearly, around Memorial Day and is regrettably closed on Labor Day. ... From deer to squirrels, the animals range from varieties of life. ... From diving for change to relaxing on a float, swimming in the pool will cool anyone down. ... Again, the house becomes vibrant with new life. ... But like all houses it's occupants can not forever occupy it. ...
The Day My Life Changed The day started out calm, I woke up, took a shower, and went to school early to finish the homework that I hadn't finished the night before. Little did I know that the next few hours would change my life forever. ... For many Americans, September 11th has afforded a brief snapshot of another world, a very real world where constant terror, ongoing devastation, and crushing, unrelieved poverty amount to a life in which the volume is forever turned down, in which entertainment is forever tempered by despair. ... As I write this, almost a year and a half after the at...
He said I would stay forever. ... Like most, he had spent his life moving from one place to another, running away from it all, and then going back and enduring the torture and spite with the hopes that things would change, that his father would change. ... "I'll show you to take my woman, you worthless piece of crap."" ... It's forever, kid. ... "It's forever. ...
At some point in life, all of us will set goals for ourselves, each of us, somewhere down the road, will experience a relationship or an event that will leave a mark in our life and change us forever. ... I was heartbroken for Betsy, and I didn't know how she would go on with out Chris in her life. ... It took a long time for my sister to become herself again, and I don't think she"ll ever return to the Betsy I once knew, a piece of her died with Chris that day. ... All of my family's lives were changed by this tragedy. It took many baby steps to return to the normal routine ...
As I look back over the lives of people who have impacted my life in a positive way, I can think of no one more important than my youth pastor, Douglas Elsey. ... During the 3 years I attended Redlands Academy, he became an influential person in my life. ... I felt a change in my life as a young boy. ... From that day on, I have respected and honored Pastor Elsey for his influence in my life. I am forever grateful his spiritual leadership. ...
Throughout the day people experience many events that can change a person's outlook on life completely. ... In May 1999 when my mom was fighting for her life, I fell into a depressed state and changed my focus to going out a lot to avoid my problems at home. On one of these occasions this lifestyle led to the accident that changed me forever. ... I have strengthened my resolve to fight and become the person that I know I can for I know at any moment, life can be taken away or my life changed forever. ... These events have not only changed my life both mentally and physically but emotio...
