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The Value Of Values Essay

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For my life the thing that I value is my family and friends, exercising and participating in sports, and finally going to and getting an education. I chose these specific topics because I feel like these are incredibly important to almost everyone in the world. Each of the values have a enormous amount of appreciation because first of all, people need all three, family, exercise, and education. I have never felt so close to my family before, because they have been preparing me to be able to leave and somehow manage to stay a float when it was time to grow up. Just because your family is getting you ready for real life and trying to see how independent you can be, doesn’t mean they are not still going to help you with any questions you have. Exercising arguably the …show more content…

In the recent year, I was looking at different options at my future, so i was trying out a wide variety of things. One of those things was joining the US Marine Corp, I have an incredible amount of respect and honor for every military branch and i wanted to see how they do things as Marines. I got a hold of one of the recruiters and he requested that i come to their physical training sessions, and i was a little nervous but very excited. I will say i have never felt so dead in my life, it was action packed with workouts and other various forms of exercise like running 2 miles straight, lifting a giant lodge, doing 20 pull ups, and finally 50 reps of lifting ammo crates that weigh about 20-30 pounds. All that packed in 2 hours, which is insane, I frequently look back on the day and say, “Wow I can probably do it again.” I may have complained about it at first, but looking back on that day i am full of joy knowing that I was able to endure that amount of stress on my body without giving

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