Our Journey

Everyone has a place where their journey first started. People may have multiple beginnings to one journey, but everyone starts at least once. No matter how your journey begins, it is the start of a new you and only you can decide where it takes you. Not every beginning is a grand one where you make a big change in your life from the start. Some beginnings are very small and grow to become something large that ends up shaping who you are

I will start off by talking about my own journey, how it began, and where it led me to today. I previously talked about how everyone has different beginnings for their journey, some big and some small. My journey was one of those that started off really, really small and led up to something bigger. My story begins all the way back in 2015 when I was 13 years old with little care in the world. When you are 13 this is about the same age where life starts to change for you as you get ready to enter high school. You start to develop yourself as a person more and view the world around you differently. When I got to this point, I was actually afraid of trying to change things up as I just wanted life to be something stable.

Surprisingly enough, I have always loved shopping for food so I enjoyed taking trips with my family to the supermarket but when it came to shopping for anything else I ended up getting bored fast. Oddly enough, I knew some people hated shopping in general but I never got why until later in life. Now as I have to shop for my own things I realize that the worst part about shopping are the prices.

In the summer of 2015, I decided to go shopping with my mom at Pathmark before they all shut down. Going through the aisles I saw Oreos, which were my favorite snack at the time but there was something different this time while going through. Right next to the original Oreos, there was a new flavor called “Brownie Batter Oreos” and for the first time I wanted to try this new flavor of Oreos. I usually didn’t care for flavors like birthday cake or peanut butter Oreos but this one caught my eye. I begged my mom to get the Oreos and luckily enough she ended up getting them.

To this day, there has been no Oreos that have compared to the Brownie Batter Oreos to me and surely enough my 13-year-old self loved them too. Weeks after, I started looking for more packages of these Oreos only to not find them. Searching them up online, I realized that they were limited edition and they stopped selling them. This was my first experience where I understood what limited edition meant because I almost hated the company for getting rid of them. It was only when I entered high school that I started to appreciate this experience of trying these Oreos that barely anyone knew existed. As ridiculous as this all sounds, this was the start of my own journey.

From here on, I wanted to try new foods that were limited or just new to me because these were new experiences that I could take in. Doing new things has definitely changed and defined who I am today. Every experience matters and who knows if you will ever get another chance in the future. It my perspective, it is better to take the opportunity rather than let the chances take it away.

The purpose of me telling this story is to show that not everyone needs to know where their journey started and not every journey has to start big. Your journey can start from any point and from anything but it is up to you to decide where you end it at.