A Special Person Analysis

There was once an exceptionally special person in my life, one who was the most honest down to earth person I know, and my role model. Every academic assignment I received, even in kindergarten, he would teach me beyond expected for that entire grade. How to draw, love and care for animals, and have an unconditional love for everyone around me are just a few of the traits he taught me. Every single day, no matter what, throughout my life, he said to treat all with kindness, and that simply talking to someone who seemed unhappy could turn his or her entire life around. I would sit in my room for hours and read encyclopedias all about random topics to try to become as smart as he was. He would rescue injured animals on our land and we would care …show more content…
However, I had many friends and family members surrounding me. When I was a sophomore in high school, one of my best friends was a boy named Jacob, who pushed me to enroll in the most challenging classes and make the best grades possible. At the beginning of every school year, we would compare our schedules and make sure that they were as challenging. At the finish of every day, we would compare our grades, as If we were in a competition. In reality, we both wanted each other to do the best imaginable in everything. Every day that I did not have volleyball, basketball, or work, I would go and spend time with him and his family. Their home became my second; I had become accustomed to being home alone because my mom was always working, until I became close with this loving family. Mid sophomore year, Jacob died in a car crash. Everything in my surroundings seemed to remind me of him because he had been in every one of my classes, and attended all my basketball and volleyball games. Despite that I didn’t want to get out of bed for weeks, even months, I woke up every morning and went to school and continued to attempt everything I had before. It was the hardest thing I have ever done to keep pushing myself. My world seemed to be over including my grades, as if I needed him to make the marks I had before. Young Life began taking up my time before school every day and I became closer to God than ever before, my mom never took me to church, therefore it was tough. To this day, every test I take, everything I do, I imagine Jacob sitting beside me, holding my hand, telling me that both he and my father know what I am capable of. His family; my family, remind me every day to make Jacob proud. My top competitor was gone, but I gained an angel that is by my side in everything I do. Although there existed a period that I struggled, I overcame