Every kid, teenager, and even young adult is asked the same loaded question, “What would you like to be when you grow up?” As just a young sixth grader, I had a revelation and adopted my dream. A significant person that has meant the world to me, by shaping my future, is my junior high English teacher, Miss Bonnet. She taught me the importance of individualism, drive and determination, and passion. The lessons that I learned both academically and personally through Miss Bonnet have impacted my life greatly and now lead me towards my future everyday. As a simple-minded preteen student, my thoughts were set on anything other than my future. The furthest plan that I drafted out for myself was how I was going to ask my mother for a ride to the
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Throughout my years, we only grew closer as student and teacher, and then family friends. I continued to take her classes for as long as she would teach in my capabilities and babysat her children as a young teen. Her family became apart of our connection too. Her husband, Todd, taught me about the connection between a loving pair. Together, the three of us sat for hours and hours, having long and intellectual talks about life where I learned some of the more valuable lessons that I had never thought to ask for. They showed me that love was based on positive and healthy change, over time. Miss Bonnet, who I would later refer to as Angela, fought through breast cancer and displayed courage as she beat the illness and slowly grew her hair back. Each summer I took care of their gardening while they enjoyed family trips, and when they came home we would all discuss their adventures with pictures and souvenirs. Angela was the first person that inspired me to become myself through what I loved doing and to work for happiness, rather than success. She and her family showed me a lifestyle that I was unfamiliar to: individualism and determination. Both of her kids and her husband all had their own separate goals in life, and it was amazing to see how they cheered each other on with each triumph, no matter how
Throughout my years, we only grew closer as student and teacher, and then family friends. I continued to take her classes for as long as she would teach in my capabilities and babysat her children as a young teen. Her family became apart of our connection too. Her husband, Todd, taught me about the connection between a loving pair. Together, the three of us sat for hours and hours, having long and intellectual talks about life where I learned some of the more valuable lessons that I had never thought to ask for. They showed me that love was based on positive and healthy change, over time. Miss Bonnet, who I would later refer to as Angela, fought through breast cancer and displayed courage as she beat the illness and slowly grew her hair back. Each summer I took care of their gardening while they enjoyed family trips, and when they came home we would all discuss their adventures with pictures and souvenirs. Angela was the first person that inspired me to become myself through what I loved doing and to work for happiness, rather than success. She and her family showed me a lifestyle that I was unfamiliar to: individualism and determination. Both of her kids and her husband all had their own separate goals in life, and it was amazing to see how they cheered each other on with each triumph, no matter how