t was not until I lost everything I took for granted that I was able to find myself. For much of my life , like many teenagers I felt invincible , motivated by status and reward to find inner happiness. I was a risk taker fortunate that most of my risks panned out. This outlook shaped a path where I got involved in all that I could possibly do. I've always found joy through responsibility , leadership, academic success and social action. This joy never lasted , later I realized that the happiness I was seeking was superficial and seeking perfection would alway leave me empty in an imperfect world. In my junior year the lifestyle I was so accustom to ceased to exist. I was heart broken when my twenty one year old cousin passed away after being
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Only a couple months later I was struck by a minivan driving home from a baseball game which resulted in valuable time being missed from school. Two weeks later a local student I used to play baseball with was stabbed to death. All this tragedy and I didn't know how to handle everything on my plate, I couldn't rap my head around all that occurred in such a short span. There never seemed to be enough time to accomplish what needed to be done and as a result I failed to achieve my goals. Even with the tragedies of junior year I never game up a single extra curricular. I continued to be an active leader with soccer, baseball, school leadership, shadowing a student at my temple, mock trial, environmental organizations, The newspaper, theatre, volunteer work and clubs. Yet, As my gpa fell from an unweighted 3.75 to a 3.142 so did my confidence. Knowing the important of junior year in high school I was devastated with the results of my second semester. If it wasn't enough to lose loved ones I felt as if I had lost a chance in getting into a "good college". I had failed, and the next two months were filled with regret and …show more content…
Most importantly I came to the conclusion that from this point forward I would embrace all my imperfections, tragedies and anything I didn’t like. At the core of who I am, i’m resilient, resourceful, compassionate, and socially active. This differed from my superficial core that I previously sought of being intelligent, a leader, and being accepted . Those core ideas were simply results and to achieve those I needed to be resilient, resourceful, compassionate, and socially active. This reflection opened up a new chapter in my life, there was a rebirth in a sence of who I was and will become. With these new core ideas I set forth life goals. Cherish every moment with my family and reach out to them, don't wait for them to reach out to you. Second spend all your freetime reading and learning so that I can become as knowledgable as I possibly can. The third was to not only be a leader, but someone who leads other leaders in the process of educating and innovating for a brighter future. Lastly was that no one should have to feal the way I felt and help people find themselves as someone they can be proud of. I was eager to start a new chapter in my life, I decided to take seven academic classes out of the maximum six available and start reading the art of war and the prince when I had the time. I developed a new fond love of learning contiune to challenge myslef academically and in the proccess great grades follow. I currently have A’s in all my courses
Only a couple months later I was struck by a minivan driving home from a baseball game which resulted in valuable time being missed from school. Two weeks later a local student I used to play baseball with was stabbed to death. All this tragedy and I didn't know how to handle everything on my plate, I couldn't rap my head around all that occurred in such a short span. There never seemed to be enough time to accomplish what needed to be done and as a result I failed to achieve my goals. Even with the tragedies of junior year I never game up a single extra curricular. I continued to be an active leader with soccer, baseball, school leadership, shadowing a student at my temple, mock trial, environmental organizations, The newspaper, theatre, volunteer work and clubs. Yet, As my gpa fell from an unweighted 3.75 to a 3.142 so did my confidence. Knowing the important of junior year in high school I was devastated with the results of my second semester. If it wasn't enough to lose loved ones I felt as if I had lost a chance in getting into a "good college". I had failed, and the next two months were filled with regret and …show more content…
Most importantly I came to the conclusion that from this point forward I would embrace all my imperfections, tragedies and anything I didn’t like. At the core of who I am, i’m resilient, resourceful, compassionate, and socially active. This differed from my superficial core that I previously sought of being intelligent, a leader, and being accepted . Those core ideas were simply results and to achieve those I needed to be resilient, resourceful, compassionate, and socially active. This reflection opened up a new chapter in my life, there was a rebirth in a sence of who I was and will become. With these new core ideas I set forth life goals. Cherish every moment with my family and reach out to them, don't wait for them to reach out to you. Second spend all your freetime reading and learning so that I can become as knowledgable as I possibly can. The third was to not only be a leader, but someone who leads other leaders in the process of educating and innovating for a brighter future. Lastly was that no one should have to feal the way I felt and help people find themselves as someone they can be proud of. I was eager to start a new chapter in my life, I decided to take seven academic classes out of the maximum six available and start reading the art of war and the prince when I had the time. I developed a new fond love of learning contiune to challenge myslef academically and in the proccess great grades follow. I currently have A’s in all my courses