Question

Write a 5 page paper on how your childrens can influence your outlook on life. Is this a person you know or have read or heard about? What impressed you most about this person? How specially have they influenced you. What were their struggles and setbacks. How did they deal with them? What impact have he/she made?

Answer 1

Our children or children around us do influence us and our outlook towards life many times and in many different ways.

Children sometimes create such an impression on our mind that even being adults we won't be able to do it. With their unique innocent ideas and ways in which they act are fantastic and so very influential.

Being adults there are lot of things mainly small things in life that we have forgotten or never pay keen attention to,but children make us realise the importance of those small things.

There are many such children staying in my neighborhood with whom I usually interact in the evening ,out of my interest and a kind of hobby. One of those many children has influenced my Outlook towards life. He is a child with disability but with certain unique other abilities which make him special and influential.

Even with his disability he use to be happy and cheerful ,he never felt or expressed that he is lacking in few things and he cannot be as other normal kids are. He taught me to be on your own ,love yourself as the way you are most importantly never to compare with any one else or be jealous of anybody just because that have something which you lack.

He taught me to find happiness in small things like making friends,talking good to people ,playing around with others, being kind to everyone around you no matter how they behave with you.

Initially when I saw him and observed him playing around with other kids I always thought how nice and simple their life is, how stress free they are with no expectations,no worries about future ,no struggles for independence. But I was wrong and I realised it only after I met the child's mother. I while taking with the child once happen to have a conversation with her and told her how their child has influenced me. And I love the way he is happy ,contended and stress free without any expectations but to my surprise she started revealing all his life experiences and struggles till then. He was born with cerebral plasy at birth ,doctors had given up on him and told he would never sit,stand or walk in his life and would never be able to do anything a normal person does, we had lost all our hopes and decided to give up on him and plan for another child, but we never had another child again. Later with passing years this child started smoking ,recognising us showing love and affection, interacting with us ,we as parents were very happy ,years passed when he saw other kids of his age going to school he asked us to send him too,but no school entertained him as he couldn't walk and they felt he wants fit to be there. He himself started showing interest in learning new things to which I started teaching him ,to my surprise in a year he learnt what normal kids could in two or three years. We again approached various different schools and I told them about his intelligence,one school agreed and we admitted him ,but he was always discriminated, bullied by other kids, due to which he lost his self esteem was very sad and withdrawn ,he started lacking in his studies and could not do well ,when his father realised the problems he was facing ,we decided to take him out of the school and appoint a private tutor, it took time for him to raise again but during that phase when we gave up at times he used to hold us on and build our hope ,telling us not to give up. We moved on with him ,even with his disability he was always much more strong and abled than both of us. We always realised he has special abilities and which we should nurture. With all the struggles he faced he was strong and kept going,even in worst times he never lost hope. He has set an example for us parents and also people like you his mother conveyed she is proud to have a child with disability but being differently abled and still being lot better than all normal people around.

He has created a strong impact on all the kids around him as well as to adults like us who give up on little problems in life and keep worry about nothing ,instaed of searching for happiness and containment,we keep running behind acheiving monetary gains in pursuit of happiness. Happiness is in being kind,staying strong, staying self contended, satisfied and spreading this happiness to others.