How Taylor Paddock Changed My Life

Taylor Paddock had the characteristics of being kind, loved reading, humor, and served everyone around her. After her accident, I saw myself in her a lot more. The charactersit that really touched my heart was her love of reading. In my elementary school, there were only a couple of other kids who loved reading as much as I did. Teasing came my way as I earned 300 AR points one year and got the reputation of being a bookworm or nerd. I did not mind that title thought. Reading was I love of mine that began from a young age with my mother reading books to us at nighttime. The one book that was my favorite that she read was George’s Marvelous Medicine, At times, my mom had to have one of my older siblings read the book because she was laughing too …show more content…
This came through books. Whether it meant being a secret agent like Alex Ryder or being a Ranger Apprentice like will. My favorite character that I could play was Percy Jackson, and his journey to save the Gods. A dream I had from a young age was to become someone great in life and change the world. These books specifically gave me that feeling and kept me striving towards that goal. Strength enveloped me in times of struggle, happiness seeped into my soul, and anger sparked inside me as I read books. The heroes in Atlas Shrugged changed my life forever, They taught me to never give up. I became so enhanced in the books that my mom became probably the first mom to punish us kids by taking our books away unless we did chores. We spent so much of our time reading it became a punishment to not have to read. Usually it is the other way around that kids are forced to read, but my mom had to slow us down or we would go skip meals to read books. Taylor was also involved in National Honors Society. The values in this club were service, character, leadership, and scholarship. These characteristics have been a part of my life since I can