As a child in a large Asian family, nothing that I have done has ever been good enough. My grandfather is a wealthy, successful man, who rose up from nothing as a new American immigrant to where he is today. Thus, my mother has always felt that she was in his shadow. Because she had children early, she felt stuck in her life, never believing that she could move forward. As a result, she pushed her dreams and aspirations of moving out of the shadow onto me early on.
This had both positive and negative impacts on me as a person. I strived for her praise, but doing well in anything was only the minimum, and I was always told I could achieve more. This was a result of much frustration through the early years of adolescence. My mother and I would …show more content…
I made it my own endeavor to do well, to be satisfied with myself. Unbeknownst to me, I was in the same great shadow that many in my family were under, before I finally started taking my own steps out of it.
As a result of moving into a new world at a young age, technology was my best friend. I would constantly preoccupy myself with watching television or playing video games. As such, I grew to have an appreciation of it and aspire to one day be in a field related to what I love. My logical side has also always been more dominant than my artistic side, and thus I set my goal on programming. It combines what I like to do and what I do well.
As a person, I took in the influence of several people in my family. From my grandfather, who to this day continues to work tirelessly, I learned the importance of hard work and its rewards. From my father, a Catholic man, I learned kindness and generosity. From his actions, he showed me to be appreciative of what I have and to look at things in perspective. In a way, I suppose my mother succeeded in what she was trying to achieve as well. I made her dream my own. Her strict rules became guidelines for myself. Her discipline shaped mine into what it is today. Her expectations have become the floor of what I expect from myself, while my own ambition pushes me to rise above. I refuse
This had both positive and negative impacts on me as a person. I strived for her praise, but doing well in anything was only the minimum, and I was always told I could achieve more. This was a result of much frustration through the early years of adolescence. My mother and I would …show more content…
I made it my own endeavor to do well, to be satisfied with myself. Unbeknownst to me, I was in the same great shadow that many in my family were under, before I finally started taking my own steps out of it.
As a result of moving into a new world at a young age, technology was my best friend. I would constantly preoccupy myself with watching television or playing video games. As such, I grew to have an appreciation of it and aspire to one day be in a field related to what I love. My logical side has also always been more dominant than my artistic side, and thus I set my goal on programming. It combines what I like to do and what I do well.
As a person, I took in the influence of several people in my family. From my grandfather, who to this day continues to work tirelessly, I learned the importance of hard work and its rewards. From my father, a Catholic man, I learned kindness and generosity. From his actions, he showed me to be appreciative of what I have and to look at things in perspective. In a way, I suppose my mother succeeded in what she was trying to achieve as well. I made her dream my own. Her strict rules became guidelines for myself. Her discipline shaped mine into what it is today. Her expectations have become the floor of what I expect from myself, while my own ambition pushes me to rise above. I refuse