The Most Important Day
In Helen Keller “The
Most Important Day” it narrates the day she meet her teacher, Mrs. Anne
Mansfield Sullivan, and displays how she helped her change her entire life. The
most important day of my life was when I got the opportunity to come to study
into the United States. This journey began on the day I was done with elementary
school; my parents proposed me to move to San Antonio and study high school in
order to have a better education as well as a new environment. This decision
was very important for me because as my dad once said, “this would define your
future later on”. When I finally decided
that I wanted to give it a try, this journey seemed to be challenging and full
of obstacles. As the time passed by, I learned the different meanings that life
had proposed to me such as experiencing a new lifestyle, a better education,
and learn how to be more independent. Along the way I learned that the one
decision I made completely changed my life and gave me the opportunity to open
new doors into my life.
During my first year living in San Antonio, I
entered as a boarding student in freshman year at the Incarnate Word High
School. This experience of living in a boarding program taught me many
different lessons such as different cultures, languages and new perspectives
from people that were from different ethnical backgrounds. Meeting and
socializing with new people was challenging at first for me because I was not
familiar with the English language, and I could barely understand it. The years
passed along and my fears started to decrease, I started to master my English
and overcome my obstacles. As Helen Keller did “I felt approaching footsteps. I
stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother. Someone took it, and I was
caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal all things
to me, and, more than all things else, to love me.” (85, par, 4). Her
experience of being blind exemplifies how even though she could not see who the
person in front of her was, she still trusted her instincts and understood that
by giving her fears a chance she could figure out what to do. My experience of
learning this new language and meeting new people was similarly challenging,
though as I gave my fears away this new lifestyle taught me to be a more
open-minded person and helped me to understand the language better.
High school experience at Incarnate Word gave
me the education that I was looking for; it taught me how to be organized and
independent by the modular schedule system and also socialize with clubs and
teachers. Just as Helen Keller shared her enthusiasm for learning, saying, “I
left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave
birth to a new thought.” (86, par.9). Like her my weaknesses faded as the first
year progressed. My mind was now starting to build up the pieces of the
undoable puzzle. With patience and dedication, I had accomplished one year of
practice and started to grew up new thoughts and ideas due to the many
different things I had learned since the beginning.
Independence had lightened my path
when I went into senior year, which was my last stop before college and self-sufficiency.
I was able to cook a decent meal, do my laundry and drive myself around, for which
I realized many people were dependent on their parents. Sometimes “I did not
know what the future held of marvel or surprise for me. Anger and bitterness
had preyed upon me continually for weeks and deep languor had succeeded this
passionate struggle.” (85, par, 5). At this point, I felt many responsibilities
because my family’s opinion is very important to me because of the fact that
they always encouraged me, and that they showed so much pride for me motivated
me to overcome any obstacles that were though my way and helped me to defeat my
fears.
Several aspects of Helen Keller’s
life resonated with my own problems in the past. I realize now that people with
eye impairment go through an amplified version of the path people learning
English as a second language go through. I am the person I am today Because of
the decision I made and the obstacles and sacrifices that came along. I thank
God for giving me the opportunity to be a person who lacks nothing, but it’s
grateful for what she has. The most important day of my life will remain in
constant opening for new opportunities who will hopefully in the future hold my
dream of improving.
Keller, Helen “The Most Important Day.” Models of
Writers: Short Essays for Composition. Eds. Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012, 84-87. Print.
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