My Success Story It doesn’t matter how talented, hardworking, intelligent, or confident you are. It depends on what you are successful in rather its related to education, sports, work, or social life. There were so many events that turned out to be a huge success for me. One of them was participating in my high school’s color guard. I didn’t know much about it when I joined in to fill in an empty spot. I later realized that color guard was very similar to dancing which I’m passionate about. Doing color guard wasn’t just an extra circulator I participated in high school; it showed me how my self-concept, reflected appraisal, social comparison, personality and biology, and culture and gender presented me on how I am. “Self-concept is a set
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I compared myself to other competitive color guard members you see on national marching bands because they work as hard as I do. It was very difficult to learn the flag technique but with a lot of practicing and getting used to it wouldn’t be as hard as it looks. My color guard instructor was impressed on how I wasn’t bossing the color guard around when it came to dancing and helping others with flag techniques. She thought I was showing positive leadership. My band director thought I was doing a great job learning the drill for the show. Hard work pays off when you practice a …show more content…
Recall that gender roles are socially constructed ideas about how women and men should think and behave.” (Floyd, 77) Color guard isn’t just for sport for girls; boys can do it as well. Color guard shows a lot of self-confidence from the members performing. I considered myself self-confident because it related to my feminine trait. Having confidence helps me when it comes to challenges. When my high school’s marching band participated in a national band competition at Indianapolis, I was extremely anxious about performing to thousands of people. I thought I was going to miss a step or humiliate myself on the football field. I took my time to stay calm and pray that I would have the confidence to perform. By the time I got on the field to perform, I was imagining being a stage like I’ve done at my dance recitals. I had to best time participating color guard because it showed how self-confident I was throughout the
I compared myself to other competitive color guard members you see on national marching bands because they work as hard as I do. It was very difficult to learn the flag technique but with a lot of practicing and getting used to it wouldn’t be as hard as it looks. My color guard instructor was impressed on how I wasn’t bossing the color guard around when it came to dancing and helping others with flag techniques. She thought I was showing positive leadership. My band director thought I was doing a great job learning the drill for the show. Hard work pays off when you practice a …show more content…
Recall that gender roles are socially constructed ideas about how women and men should think and behave.” (Floyd, 77) Color guard isn’t just for sport for girls; boys can do it as well. Color guard shows a lot of self-confidence from the members performing. I considered myself self-confident because it related to my feminine trait. Having confidence helps me when it comes to challenges. When my high school’s marching band participated in a national band competition at Indianapolis, I was extremely anxious about performing to thousands of people. I thought I was going to miss a step or humiliate myself on the football field. I took my time to stay calm and pray that I would have the confidence to perform. By the time I got on the field to perform, I was imagining being a stage like I’ve done at my dance recitals. I had to best time participating color guard because it showed how self-confident I was throughout the