Senior Year Research Paper

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Days start to go by faster and faster, time starts to speed its way around. Senior year, the year many around me have waited for. As I anxiously made my way to school the first day it wasn’t about what clothes I had on, or how my hair and makeup looked, it was about how far I’ve come a year ago I lost my bestfriend, my strength in my weak times, my older brother, I didn’t think I was going to see senior year with the way my life started to go.

Growing up I had many ambitions, millions of idea’s of the amazing person I wanted to be but very little support. My mom was never around it was always just my dad and my big brother my dad never cared too much about my brother and I so all my brother and I really had was each other. All throughout elementary, middle and even my first few years of high school I had so many people telling me what i couldn’t do, and how i wouldn’t make it. My brother always reassured me that no matter what anyone said it was I whom made myself the person I wanted to be.

Months after my brother’s passing I was beyond ready to give up, being on the field during my soccer games and looking to the stands and not seeing him
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Sometimes it takes minor setbacks for major comebacks. sometimes it takes loosing all you have to work for more. sometimes it takes reassurance from yourself to get your head on straight. but at the end of the day it's not about those dreadful school and work hours, it's not about your alarm going off at 6 am for school. It's about the major test days that are easy breezy because your worked to get yourself where you are, it's about those friday pay days that remind you you don't need anyone but yourself and your own

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