For this essay, you will write a narrative argument about your education. You will be asked to make meaning out of an educational experience you have had. You can also draw from any learning...

In the golden word of MK Gandhi, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow". I have customised it to one should learn as if we were to live forever. All through my life, I have witnessed many things both at professional and personal front but I will always marvel at the experience of learning a new language that is foreign to me, English. Learning and understanding a new language is not at all easy. However, I was determined to learn English and was mentally prepared to overcome any obstacle that will come my way. I had started to practice the language much before I formally enrolled in an English Language. It was like I was lost here and couldn’t even share what I was feeling with others. Many thoughts like, others wont like me, I wouldn’t be able to make friends and would be considered as a complete alien haunted me to the core. But something in me said, I will not give up! Sure, it looks practically difficult to learn English and even impossible to speak in this language but its worth a try. How we see and understand the events around us makes all the difference! I believe, more importantly how we decide to judge and interpret those events actually shapes everything else in life. Just think about it, our perceptions can be either source of strength or they can weaken us. I know there are incidents when we suffer because of external conditions however, if we are emotional, subjective and short-sighted we will interpret an event badly leading to unhelpful perceptions. While if we control our emotions and put things in prospective such that we are examining things objectively then we can begin to see obstacles with greater clarity.
My mother tongue is Arabic and even the word "English" was difficult to pronounce at first. My family members were inclined to settle...