/Portals/2/logos/__TFMF_uzif1o55mbifg5mjzf151jz4_e761e948-166b-4b0e-9a33-4cf7fd96954d_0___Selected.jpg en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:41:13 GMT 15 By Jasmine Cotton
Have you ever experienced something in your life that taught you an important lesson? Well for me everything in my life so far that I have experienced good or bad has taught me an important lesson. The experience that I chose to write about was being born premature. For those who don’t know this about me I was born four months premature. I weighed 1 pound and 12 ounces. I am very thankful, lucky, and full of happiness to be alive today. Being premature has taught me many lessons not just about myself but in life itself. The most important lesson that I have learned about this experience is to be proud of who I am. I also learned to accept and love myself for the person I am. This experience has made me appreciative for so many things but the thing that I am most appreciative of is my life. When a baby is born premature it means that they were born early and they are really small. Some premature babies don’t survive once they are born. I had to stay in an incubator for four months while I was in the hospital. The doctors had to shave all of my hair off and stick I.V.’s in my body when I was born so I could survive. Being premature has a really big effect on my family but most of all me. My family calls me a miracle baby because the doctors didn’t think I would survive but I did. When my family would come and see me at the hospital they would have to wear masks and wash their hands so I wouldn’t catch any germs. One of the lessons that I have learned from this is to not take life for granted and live everyday to the fullest and I don’t take my life for granted at all. In my opinion my life is very important to me because I had to fight for my life while I was in the hospital. The next lesson that I have taken from this was the encouraging words that my English teacher Ms.Bell told me. She told me that I shouldn’t let people’s words get me down and she wants me to keep my head held high. These words that she told me have changed my life because I have listened to her advice and all of the things that she has had to say. I used these words to my advantage and they have helped me every day. She truly is a special teacher. I appreciate all that she does for me. The relationship that we have with one another is indescribable. As my teacher I trust her and I can talk to her about anything whether it’s personal or academic. Today, because of Ms.Bell I hold my head up high. I used the words that she told me and they have helped me more than she will ever know. She has also told me something that has been very helpful which was even though your family is your family, the people in your family may not have your best interest at heart. She taught me that if I am pondering on the past and what people have done to me just don’t put myself in that situation to be hurt. Now, she has made me realize what she meant by that. The thing that she meant by that was sometimes people don’t know any better and I have to learn from certain people’s mistakes. A teacher is encouraging, an inspiration, and a support and to you Ms.Bell thanks for being all of these things for me. It makes me feel blessed, proud, and honored to have the family that I have because without having the loving Christian family that I have, I don’t know what I would do. While I was in the hospital my family prayed for me a lot because they wanted me to survive and they were extremely concerned about me and my circumstances. I can’t describe how much that means to me to have their prayers while I was in the hospital. It touches my heart to know that they cared that much to do that for me. I appreciate and love my family from that bottom of my heart. My family is very important to me. Their love, prayers, and support gave me the strength to fight for my life. Going through this experience has made me realize a lot about myself. I realize that I am a survivor and a fighter. I am a strong willed, determined, loving, caring, strong, dependable, loyal, trustworthy, honest, intelligent, and a genuine person. If it wasn’t for God and my family praying and supporting me when I was born I think that I wouldn’t be alive today. God means a lot to me because he kept me when I was a preemie. I thank, praise, and worship him for all that he has done for me in my life so far. My family says that I am a blessing and a miracle to my family and without a doubt I believe them because it is so very true. I embrace and am proud of the fact that I was a preemie and will be for the rest of my life because it is what makes me the person I am today and it makes me very special because I survived when all odds were against me. I’m going to continue to have strength, be encouraged, full of happiness, and have perseverance all that I had when I was a baby and throughout the rest of my life. I’m going to continue to be the genuine, sweet, special young woman that I am. ]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:27:06 GMT