Life sucks. It’s fact. Things happen, we don’t like it. But as my mother told me one time, “It’s how you react to the things that suck in life that determines whether you’ll be happy or sad.” We can’t blame it on other people. Unless of course, that girl from 2nd grade threw a book in your face. Then yes, you can blame it on other people. So when I was asked what I wanted my legacy to be, about a million cliche things came into my head. But then I decided, I knew exactly what I wanted my legacy to be. A tootsie pop. I know, it sounds weird. But think about it. Almost everyone I know likes a tootsie pop. You lick your way down to the center, where there’s a piece of a tootsie roll waiting for you to enjoy. Keep that in mind. When life sucks,
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Not literally, of course. Math Analysis last year, boy was it hard. Luckily, the entire school year, I kept on licking that lollipop and I finished with an A in the class. Some of my friends threw the tootsie pop in the trash. They gave up. Accepted the fact that they couldn’t do it. They didn’t understand the homework, they weren’t passing the tests, they were done with the class. They wanted to throw that tootsie pop in the trash and abandon that mission forever. But one girl in my class kept trying. No matter what. She didn’t stop. I helped her on one of the units towards the end of the year. We were video chatting at least once a week, and I was explaining everything to her. She was able to do her homework, and she got the highest grade on that test than she had ever gotten in the class. And when she got that grade back, that was her reaching the center of the impossible tootsie pop that is Math …show more content…
Just bear with me, it’s almost over. People are like tootsie pops too. Some more complicated than others, but tootsie pops nonetheless. People have an outer layer that they show others, and they’re the same thing once you get to the center. Other people aren’t so simple. They may be an orange flavor on the surface, a cherry flavor in the middle, and then a piece of mint gum in the center. If you become close with that person and they trust you, then you can make it down to the cherry flavor, maybe even the mint center. But if you think about it, if you betray their trust, spread their secrets, you’re taking that special tootsie pop that few people get and you stomp on it. You crush it between your shoe and the pavement, and you throw it in the trash. You give up on that person. Would you want someone you told everything to to just betray you like that? Then don’t do it to others. People forget that they’re being handed a special tootsie pop and don’t think about consequences of their actions before it’s too
Not literally, of course. Math Analysis last year, boy was it hard. Luckily, the entire school year, I kept on licking that lollipop and I finished with an A in the class. Some of my friends threw the tootsie pop in the trash. They gave up. Accepted the fact that they couldn’t do it. They didn’t understand the homework, they weren’t passing the tests, they were done with the class. They wanted to throw that tootsie pop in the trash and abandon that mission forever. But one girl in my class kept trying. No matter what. She didn’t stop. I helped her on one of the units towards the end of the year. We were video chatting at least once a week, and I was explaining everything to her. She was able to do her homework, and she got the highest grade on that test than she had ever gotten in the class. And when she got that grade back, that was her reaching the center of the impossible tootsie pop that is Math …show more content…
Just bear with me, it’s almost over. People are like tootsie pops too. Some more complicated than others, but tootsie pops nonetheless. People have an outer layer that they show others, and they’re the same thing once you get to the center. Other people aren’t so simple. They may be an orange flavor on the surface, a cherry flavor in the middle, and then a piece of mint gum in the center. If you become close with that person and they trust you, then you can make it down to the cherry flavor, maybe even the mint center. But if you think about it, if you betray their trust, spread their secrets, you’re taking that special tootsie pop that few people get and you stomp on it. You crush it between your shoe and the pavement, and you throw it in the trash. You give up on that person. Would you want someone you told everything to to just betray you like that? Then don’t do it to others. People forget that they’re being handed a special tootsie pop and don’t think about consequences of their actions before it’s too