Describe An Event In Your Life That Changed Your Personality (Essay Sample)

How Age Shapes Personality
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Circumstances in our lives often change our feelings, beliefs, thinking and above all our behaviors. The way a two year old would think and make a decision in life is totally different from how a five year old would behave in a similar situation. There always comes a time in one’s life where they have to make decisions and stand on their own. Most people when asked about events that have shaped their lives would always come up with a list of scaring events. They often forget the marvelous, interesting and positive events that have contributed to changing their lives. That confirms that most people are pessimists.
I can attest to that too, because the most difficult time of my life was when I first learnt that I was going to have a baby. I knew this would change everything probably a good change but I had already gotten used to my normal life. I imagined myself missing sleep the whole night just to take care of my kid. I pictured how I would miss coming home late, going out for late night dinners and dancing with him all night at our local bar. The thought of it made me miss our two years happy marriage already. Seriously I was not ready to let it go!
The fear of shifting our marriage kept on burning inside me the whole time. I knew there would be some additional stress from the kid which would totally change everything. The thought of leaving our bed for that hospital one which everybody else was afraid of really scared the hell out of me. I never had any history about the filthy hospital wards, nurses and the sight of blood. It was also scary to think of all the labor pains that I would experience, the dizziness and the swelling of legs made me cry. At this point I had already begun to have sleepless night and wondered if the situation was going to get from the frying pan to the fire when the little one finally comes.
Modeling was my hobby and I had to do all it takes to maintain my body shape. I had struggled all along to attain a body image and weight that I had always admired. It was difficult to allow a pregnancy to change everything in my life. I visualized how I was going to add extra weight to my treasured body size. I envisioned how I would miss going to work in the morning with my heels. Truly I was confused and thrilled of what was ahead of me. At this point I began to have second thoughts, to abort the baby.
Today we are here; it has been an amazing one year of learning a lot of...