Whats the Best Advise you Have Ever Received (Essay Sample)

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What’s the best advice you have ever received?
Life is a long and arduous journey. During this journey we sometimes have good experiences and sometimes truly horrendous ones; a good learning experience, well, at least for some of us. We meet people who leave their mark on our very souls. Others, we wish we could leave a mark on their faces. Pun intended. Others guide, others mislead; you know who I am talking about. The fun ones. Then comes along an individual with whom a few words make you see things in a completely different way. My individual came along when I literary felt my soul dying.
A story was imparted in regards to grappling with career identity which closely resembled my own and I suspect many others. A problem that was the sole source of my raging inner conflict. Every morning once my alarm blared, I would turn it off then just lie there and weigh the pros and cons of why I should go to work. The pros (bills, bills, more bills) always outweighed the cons due to a crippling fear of the unknown. That was basically the only motivation I had to soldier on to work. A constant cloud of misery and un-fulfillment shadowed me every day.
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