After about six years of being an ordinary, rather unremarkable person, I finally came to the conclusion that I will never be amazing at anything. I will never be the perfect all-star varsity player, or the perfect test-taker who can get a 100% on every test without studying, or the perfect anything, actually. Many say that nobody's perfect, but I have seen people that come very close. I used to pity myself, thinking, "I can never be them." Well, I still think that way. What has changed, however, is the self-pitying attitude and negative outlook on life. I was not born with the natural brilliance of Albert Einstein, or the athletic ability of Serena Williams. So what? I have come to realize that if I give my all in everything that I do, I can be almost as great. I don’t have to fit into a “role,” like I once thought. I used to never give my full effort to something I knew
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At the beginning of high school, I didn't know how life worked; I was still in the sweet dream that is adolescence. I didn't want to expend the effort required to overcome my fear of adulthood. Eventually I got over that hurdle, and now when I want something, I go get it. I still am not exceptionally talented in anything, and I do enjoy doing nothing but sleep from time to time. What I do have, however, is tenacity. I have a wide array of things I am good at simply because I tried hard enough and stubbornly didn’t quit tasks even when I easily could have dropped them. Although I am not good enough at tennis to make the U.S Open, I can say with pride that I made the varsity tennis team my first year of playing through hard work, not raw talent. I sang and danced in a musical, and did it well, then the next season I was playing varsity softball. My vast array of skills can be summed up in a phrase: “jack of all trades, master of
At the beginning of high school, I didn't know how life worked; I was still in the sweet dream that is adolescence. I didn't want to expend the effort required to overcome my fear of adulthood. Eventually I got over that hurdle, and now when I want something, I go get it. I still am not exceptionally talented in anything, and I do enjoy doing nothing but sleep from time to time. What I do have, however, is tenacity. I have a wide array of things I am good at simply because I tried hard enough and stubbornly didn’t quit tasks even when I easily could have dropped them. Although I am not good enough at tennis to make the U.S Open, I can say with pride that I made the varsity tennis team my first year of playing through hard work, not raw talent. I sang and danced in a musical, and did it well, then the next season I was playing varsity softball. My vast array of skills can be summed up in a phrase: “jack of all trades, master of