<p>guess what you think i would have gotten, and i'll tell you what rock review gave me:</p>
<pre><code> "Progress isn't possible without sacrifice"
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<p>Progress within ourselves is not intuitive natrually by any means. Mankind's most valuable tool of learning, is a loss or some sort of sacrifice. Mistakes help us for future mistakes, and make progress more feasible. Two examples of my life clearly portray how sacrifice is essential to progress. One life changing experience, skateboarding, revealed a hospitable nature to me that I had never before witnessed. The other example, a loss of a cordial, loving, and most of all caring relative of mine who had passed away, and the lessons I had learned from his passing away.
First and foremost, let me explain breifly why I mention my experience of how being skateboarder had a profound impact on my perspective of life. I had grown up in my late-teens and found myself experimenting with different interests to find one that suits me best. I had come across skateboarding about three years prior to this essay, and want to exemplify the lessons I had learned from it. I had skateboarded within and throughout New York City at a remarkably young age, and exposed myself to life's realities, the adversity that most of mankind faces, and the unfortuante disasters this world has to deal with. To be a bit more specific, I had seen people facing great hardship on the streets, begging for a dollar in hopes to increase the quality of their lives. What I had exposed myself to, made me feel irratable, and almost selfish because of how much more I had than people facing adversity. I wanted to help, and I wanted to most all change how these people lived by any means necessary. After witnessing encounters similar to the one I mentioned, I became more cognizant of activities within my school and community that aided people with life-threatening issues, and people who were in desperate need of money. I become officous, offering help to any organization or fund-raiser to bring about a change in today's world. Unfortunately, though, I had sacrificed my favorite passion to devote my time to a better passion, something I had acquired through sacrifice. Clearly, sacrifice taught and created new aspects of life I had been blind to prior to these encounters.
Another profound experience of my life, was one of the most devastating sacrifices one can possibly face; death of a close relative. My great-grandfather was an astounding man, and had the ability to make the most apathetic person inquisitve as if they couldn't hear enough. He was a former United States Air Force pilot, and flew fighter jets during World War I. His stories, were remarkable, his liveliness despite his old age even more remarkable. Anyway, after his unfortunate death, I had obtained an unusually novel perspective of life, a perspective which made me soon realize the importance of one's health, and the importance one's relationship amongst their family. Soon after this tragedy, I did anything possible to bring my family close with one another, and became very grateful for my well-being. I also became cognizant of any moments of selflishness, and immediately repealed those provoking thoughts as soon as I thought of my great-grandfather, and the astounding influence his death has had on me.
Sacrifice is remarkable, especially the lesson's one learns from oneself. I had never anticipated any sort of novel perspective of myself, nor had I anticipated that a death would teach me more than I have learned in all of high-school. Sacrifice is clearly essential to progress, and vice-versa.</p>