Kewana's Ambition

Success is not solely based on ones background. Backgrounds vary among person to person and can often times rather influence the passion and drive that helps individuals reach their goals. Many successful people credit their success to adversities in their life and see the failures in their life as motivation to do better. While some individuals come from backgrounds that would much rather hinder others from reaching success. Learn to overcome hardships and reach success through their own personal will and persistence. Success is reached through determination, hard work and passion despite ones background as seen in people such as Elizabeth Gilbert and stories such as Kewana’s ambition.
“Kewana’s Ambition” is a story written about a troubled …show more content…
She described her passion for writing as a child and sending her poorly written stories to the “New Yorker” only to be rejected countless times. She goes on talking about her life as an unhappy waitress after college pursuing her dream of being published. She would go on to be rejected in the span of six years finding herself feeling discouraged. Although receiving a college education this did not guarantee her success as a writer although being given an advantage. She was not met with success until “Eat, Pray, Love” an effort met after countless efforts through writing and never giving up her passion. She continues talking about writing and describing it as something she loves more than herself, a concept from her adolescence when growing up that followed her even through her poorly received follow up to “Eat, Pray, Love”. Gilbert reached her success doing what she was most passionate about. Her passion in her craft encouraged her to continue working even through her failures. Nothing could guarantee her success in life but taking chances to reach her goals in life disregarding the chance of