The Savior Who Made Me Rise Even Higher
In a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, a French woman, Lucie Manette inspires a hopeless man, Sydney Carton to consider becoming the man he could never be. Sydney becomes so inspired by Lucie that he falls in love with her and dies for someone she deeply loves, her husband Charles Darnay. Sydney Carton believes that if he dies, they’ll have hopes of having a child that will be a symbol of himself fulfilling all his dreams. So, he takes on the ultimate sacrifice of giving. But my own story was far less dramatic. You see, I graduated 8th grade at the age of 14 years old, yet, sadly I couldn’t receive the Superintendent's Award during the time of the graduation ceremony. I kept on thinking about how much I truly deserved it until I realized that I never truly deserved the honor of becoming a superintendent. The reason why was that somewhere else, there were always other people working …show more content…
I slammed open my MacBook and went to my subscriber updates where I found IIsuperwomanII’s new video, “ Your Wake Up Call” which transformed my perspective. In the video, she said one thing straight up to my face, “ ‘You don’t want your dreams so badly or else you would be getting them. If you go to sleep at night and you are not utterly exhausted, then you my friend do not want it bad enough … sleep should feel like a guilty pleasure.’ ”
These few lines caused my brain revolve in all directions until I understood her point, that all my aspirations were standing right beneath me. Basically, it was possible to achieve my dreams because they were right near me, somewhere in my reaching capability. The only thing all I needed to do was to dig harder to get to them. I had thought that I put in all my effort but I didn’t at all. The real superintendent probably worked ten times harder just having good grades didn’t cut it. I needed to be well-rounded
In a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, a French woman, Lucie Manette inspires a hopeless man, Sydney Carton to consider becoming the man he could never be. Sydney becomes so inspired by Lucie that he falls in love with her and dies for someone she deeply loves, her husband Charles Darnay. Sydney Carton believes that if he dies, they’ll have hopes of having a child that will be a symbol of himself fulfilling all his dreams. So, he takes on the ultimate sacrifice of giving. But my own story was far less dramatic. You see, I graduated 8th grade at the age of 14 years old, yet, sadly I couldn’t receive the Superintendent's Award during the time of the graduation ceremony. I kept on thinking about how much I truly deserved it until I realized that I never truly deserved the honor of becoming a superintendent. The reason why was that somewhere else, there were always other people working …show more content…
I slammed open my MacBook and went to my subscriber updates where I found IIsuperwomanII’s new video, “ Your Wake Up Call” which transformed my perspective. In the video, she said one thing straight up to my face, “ ‘You don’t want your dreams so badly or else you would be getting them. If you go to sleep at night and you are not utterly exhausted, then you my friend do not want it bad enough … sleep should feel like a guilty pleasure.’ ”
These few lines caused my brain revolve in all directions until I understood her point, that all my aspirations were standing right beneath me. Basically, it was possible to achieve my dreams because they were right near me, somewhere in my reaching capability. The only thing all I needed to do was to dig harder to get to them. I had thought that I put in all my effort but I didn’t at all. The real superintendent probably worked ten times harder just having good grades didn’t cut it. I needed to be well-rounded