What Matters to Me and Why - Admission/Application Essay Example

I had been camping with my parents before, but this trip was a bit different. For one thing, it was quite far off from my home; secondly, it was not being supervised by an adult and thirdly the retreat we had chosen was located in a hilly area, where transportation was scarce. Naturally, I wanted to go with my friends but my mother had an objection to my going there. She was so worried that I might get hurt or some harm may come to me. However, I insisted on going and argued with her day after day on the same issue, until she allowed me to go.

When I was leaving home for this retreat, I saw tears in my mother’s eyes but I acted like I didn’t see them and just said a quick goodbye and left. On reaching the site I realized that it wasn’t really a very good idea, I felt uneasy about my mom. As things turned out, I had a severe viral flue attack and had to stay in bed due to high fever. There was no medical facility nearby, and since we had hitchhiked our way to the retreat, there were no readily available means of transport for me to go back home.

One of my friends managed to contact my mother on phone and told her all that had happened. My mother took the day off from work arranged transport for all of us and came to take me with her. She took me straight to the hospital where I was given medical care and afterward, my mother took great care of me at home during my illness.I was expecting that my mother would shout at me then, or be angry, but she was just sad and worried for me. She did not mention my rude behavior with her. She did not say anything about what had happened at all.

She just gave me nice meals, talked to me about different things, tried to distract me from the pain which the fever was causing and told me stories and incidents from my childhood. I felt ashamed. I had disobeyed her and had gone upon my own insistence, yet she was so forgiving.