My Influence On Academic Success

There are many that congratulate me and compliment my work, work ethic, and accomplishments once they hear where I am going to college and my plans when I get there. I do normally go along with the compliment and take credit for my successes, in part because compliments make me recoil, and explaining the extent to your influence would be too expository and frankly unnecessary in some situations. Your effect on my life goes beyond what I could ever expect, or even consciously like, and your influence I constantly feel at rare but increasingly frequent moments of realization and introspection. I would like to take the credit for my academic successes to make myself feel like I have actually accomplished something, but I cannot knowing that the only thing I did to build myself academically and psychologically was take shape from the building …show more content…
You gave me the affection I needed and the fun I so desperately wanted. Even if you were more lenient with my academic performance, you were more demanding of my psychological and emotional success, that is, the health of my mental state and of my perceptions of the world. Thank you for pushing me to become self-sufficient (to a certain extent) and for encouraging me to push myself and become more efficient and able. You were, and are, just as stern and severe as my father, but in different realms, and you consistently pushed me back down to earth when I was in the clouds or brought me down to zero when I was at one-hundred. Thank you for teaching me stabilization and the importance of having a sturdy and immovable foundation in the most trying of situations and spaces, as it is invaluable to me now and will be in the future -especially since the future, as we both know, is absolutely random and unforeseeable as being adaptable and flexible yet stern will be what keeps me