Throughout my whole whole life I have hear and say what people would want me to say or do. But freshmen year somehow there was a point where it came down for me to start thinking for my self to realize who i was and learn from other. I have met a lot of people since than, people I've met by organizations, clubs, school, college, church, work and family. People that i think that if i follow their steps i will come successful too but that is not the point because i want to be someone different, i want to make changes to benefit myself and others. My mother, my sister, and Monica have put and establish qualities and values on me that i wouldn't be able to live with, or have reach all my goals.
My mother has taught me since i was little that i can do whatever i want to and be whoever i want to become in life. But also been hard on me to keep up with good grades, been an honor student, to always look a head, never give up, and to not lower my standards because she will never will let me. This standards are sometimes to follow because in the process i can not count with her since she does not have a higher education other than high school. But that does not mean i will put a wall in front of me, instead that means that i have to find my way theough the situation and succeed at it. I push my self to be the best i can and to not get behind, and to set goals for myself.
My sister is a person who did not took advantege of the opportunities life gave her. She has been a great example for me on what not to do and how to not get stuck on something that i do not want to go through. That only I have the power to choose what I want to do with my life and that all the decisions i make are to either benefit me or make a hard impact on me. She makes me think real hard before making a decision on something and to look on both sides of the situation that i can find myself in. To balence them and while balencing them to make sure that none of my values nor expectations of my self are been put down.
Monica is a person i meet through OPS offices, she was the first person to ever contact me for a opportunity, offering me my first scholarship. At first she offer me an application for a new program called Bridge to Sucess Program that Metropilitan Commutiny College was offering for outstanding students. I do not know how she got my information nor how was i was one of the few people at my high school to have been sent to it. When i showed the application to my mother and saw her reaction and emotion on her face i realize that all my efforts have not been wasted but that I was succeding at my goals. Later on I was inform that i was not into the program anymmore but that something even better had happen, MCC had back me up because of the good grades and record and got me the scholarship within a group of other students I anonymously got one free class each semester and that OPS will pay my ACTs' throughout high school. Those moments open my eyes and saw that we sometimes we do things with or without a reason but that when we least expect it the rewards will come up. And to take advantage of every opportunity out there, because there is always ways to find one self success.
