What Shapes ME One says that the life of an average American teenage boy isn’t really difficult and is sometimes called the best moment of their lives. Is it really not that complicated? Can anyone achieve true success and really achieve the “American Dream”.
Life isn’t really a utopia especially when you live in a ghetto community outside of L.A. where drugs, gangs, and crime is easier to achieve than a diploma from high school. For a young boy with Mexican immigrant parents deciding where to live isn’t exactly a choice onto decide. My parents worked hard to keep us healthy and fed but it wasn’t easy over time and heavy stress, only seeing my father several hours a week. I was a little kid so energetic and I wouldn’t realize the …show more content…
I am a leader and have the qualities of a great one. Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader... they set out to make a difference, it’s never about the role-always about the goal. Those are the words that inspire me to become a better one every day.
I wasn’t always the most social person on stock but I knew deep inside that I would have an impact in several people’s lives. Freshmen year came by and my first opportunity came I was in need of community service hours and a U-8 team was in need of a coach. I always had a passion for the sport of soccer but I always made my impact inside the pitch not on the sideline. I volunteered as coach knowing this would help my view of the sport take a different angle and maybe improve from that. I signed a couple papers, received the uniforms and other equipment and I was on my way. I had a difficult challenge ahead and the first game was a month away at Ford Park in Bell …show more content…
Apparently my team was the only team who had no club players and 6 out of the 11 players were rookies. I knew this season wasn’t going to be an effortless one but that wasn’t going to cease the fact that I would lead the team into the playoffs. I quickly knew I needed the support of others to get the team going. After tiring practices the team was ready to face the first matches. The first match came by and the team was a mess we created opportunities but the ball wouldn’t go in and we lost 3-1 which would be our only defeat. That defeat motivated me to increase the intensity of the practices and it was successful because at the end of four months we were
Life isn’t really a utopia especially when you live in a ghetto community outside of L.A. where drugs, gangs, and crime is easier to achieve than a diploma from high school. For a young boy with Mexican immigrant parents deciding where to live isn’t exactly a choice onto decide. My parents worked hard to keep us healthy and fed but it wasn’t easy over time and heavy stress, only seeing my father several hours a week. I was a little kid so energetic and I wouldn’t realize the …show more content…
I am a leader and have the qualities of a great one. Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader... they set out to make a difference, it’s never about the role-always about the goal. Those are the words that inspire me to become a better one every day.
I wasn’t always the most social person on stock but I knew deep inside that I would have an impact in several people’s lives. Freshmen year came by and my first opportunity came I was in need of community service hours and a U-8 team was in need of a coach. I always had a passion for the sport of soccer but I always made my impact inside the pitch not on the sideline. I volunteered as coach knowing this would help my view of the sport take a different angle and maybe improve from that. I signed a couple papers, received the uniforms and other equipment and I was on my way. I had a difficult challenge ahead and the first game was a month away at Ford Park in Bell …show more content…
Apparently my team was the only team who had no club players and 6 out of the 11 players were rookies. I knew this season wasn’t going to be an effortless one but that wasn’t going to cease the fact that I would lead the team into the playoffs. I quickly knew I needed the support of others to get the team going. After tiring practices the team was ready to face the first matches. The first match came by and the team was a mess we created opportunities but the ball wouldn’t go in and we lost 3-1 which would be our only defeat. That defeat motivated me to increase the intensity of the practices and it was successful because at the end of four months we were