I sit here looking at my computer screen thinking to myself what is something that I can say about the people and the things that have affected me throughout the 17 years of my existence. I stare at the screen once again. What can I write about that can sum up all the things that have helped shape my aspirations in life? Then I am stricken with a memory that will always resonate within me. The thing that can best describe my life is the game of football. Football is always suggested as violent barbaric game where sole purpose is to hurt others, but when it is really evaluated it throws critics off guard. Football has shown me how to become a man. Through football I have pushed and tortured my body to the nth degree so that I could be ready
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Academically I was having an upward trend with my grades and at the end of my sophomore year I had lost over 60 pounds. I felt that this was the apex of my existence so far because education wise I was always placed in remedial classes because of my hearing and vision loss as a child. I was constantly tormented about my size and learning disadvantages to the point where I was spit on and kicked down the stairs. So when I was finally recognized for being me and not a chubby kid. This recognition filled me with joy. This joy came to a crash and burn when junior year came.My junior year was the year where I had really lost myself. My uncle was diagnosed with stage 4 Leukemia, my brother became incarcerated over 3 times, and I had to keep a job to keep food on my nephews table. Everything I did was to keep my family together even though we were on the brink of extinction. I was my family’s rock even though I was sinking myself. I never addressed it because my neighborhood’s slogan would be playing would be running through my head constantly “Un hombre no se habla de sus problemas” or rather a man does not talk about his problems. I had tried to fix the problems that I had with the blueprints that my neighborhood had set out but it only made my situation worse. So rather than focus my attention on my attention on my academics I focused them on my family. So I sat with my uncle throughout the year as I saw him slowly fading away from the person he was to a stranger. I saw my mother have tears running down her face when my brother presented himself in front of the judge. I had those memories playing through my head while I worked loading and unloading cars, and all so that my nephew can have something to fill his
Academically I was having an upward trend with my grades and at the end of my sophomore year I had lost over 60 pounds. I felt that this was the apex of my existence so far because education wise I was always placed in remedial classes because of my hearing and vision loss as a child. I was constantly tormented about my size and learning disadvantages to the point where I was spit on and kicked down the stairs. So when I was finally recognized for being me and not a chubby kid. This recognition filled me with joy. This joy came to a crash and burn when junior year came.My junior year was the year where I had really lost myself. My uncle was diagnosed with stage 4 Leukemia, my brother became incarcerated over 3 times, and I had to keep a job to keep food on my nephews table. Everything I did was to keep my family together even though we were on the brink of extinction. I was my family’s rock even though I was sinking myself. I never addressed it because my neighborhood’s slogan would be playing would be running through my head constantly “Un hombre no se habla de sus problemas” or rather a man does not talk about his problems. I had tried to fix the problems that I had with the blueprints that my neighborhood had set out but it only made my situation worse. So rather than focus my attention on my attention on my academics I focused them on my family. So I sat with my uncle throughout the year as I saw him slowly fading away from the person he was to a stranger. I saw my mother have tears running down her face when my brother presented himself in front of the judge. I had those memories playing through my head while I worked loading and unloading cars, and all so that my nephew can have something to fill his