BUILDING CHARACTER

It is difficult to select one specific event in my life that has ultimately

shaped my character. Athough I long for ease and simplicity, my life to

date has been far too complex to single out a specific circumstance that

defines me as a whole. The man I am today is due largely in part to a

culmination of events otherwise known as "my life". The child I was is a

distant remembrance of a more innocent time, when life was simple and

trouble free. The man I am today results from 18 years of experiance,

some of which I am proud, others I wish I could deny. And finally, the

man I aim to be is predicated upon happenings that have yet to occur.

Though I cannot identify a precise event in my life that was particularly

earth shattereing, I can say that the events surronding the demise of my

family had a profound affect on my life and my outlook upon life in

general.

My early years were ple...