In “The Blue Marble” composed by Gregory Petsko, the writing focuses on images that were captured by accident and how these images later on became iconic. These iconic images are moments in time that impact and shape the culture and society of which we live in. There moments in your own personal life that shape and define who you are as a person and who you will be in the future. You may not realize just how impactful they were until you look back on them, just how the images that turned out to be iconic although the photographer was not anticipating for that result at all. There were two specific moments for me that helped shape the mentality that I have today. The first of these two moments took place about two years ago, the event that
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One day my mom sat me down and told me she wanted to talk to me. She started off talking about how proud she was for everything that I have done and accomplished so far. I told her thank you and that I could not have done it without her always pushing me to be better. Next, she said I am mostly proud of you because you overcame all of the obstacles and disadvantages you had, at first, I did not know what she was talking, about so I told her to elaborate. What she was referring to was the fact that I grew up without my father in the picture, there was no father figure that I had in my life to teach me how to be a man, so I had to learn on my own, I had to always push myself in sports and teach myself how to do things that my father was never there to do. She was also referring to the situation I was born into, I was born into a family with low income who lived in a neighborhood that was not the best for a young kid to grow up in. I did not see these as disadvantages because they were just things that I was used to and the only life I knew was the one that I have. I wasn’t dealt the best cards in life but I did not let that hold me back from being successful and I am not going to ever let my past effect my future. I am not going to become yet another statistic, I am not going to be another kid without a father who grew up in a poor neighborhood and did not amount to much. I am going to be the one to beat the odds and be successful in every aspect of life. This day is when a spark inside of me was lit and pushed me even more to be determined for
One day my mom sat me down and told me she wanted to talk to me. She started off talking about how proud she was for everything that I have done and accomplished so far. I told her thank you and that I could not have done it without her always pushing me to be better. Next, she said I am mostly proud of you because you overcame all of the obstacles and disadvantages you had, at first, I did not know what she was talking, about so I told her to elaborate. What she was referring to was the fact that I grew up without my father in the picture, there was no father figure that I had in my life to teach me how to be a man, so I had to learn on my own, I had to always push myself in sports and teach myself how to do things that my father was never there to do. She was also referring to the situation I was born into, I was born into a family with low income who lived in a neighborhood that was not the best for a young kid to grow up in. I did not see these as disadvantages because they were just things that I was used to and the only life I knew was the one that I have. I wasn’t dealt the best cards in life but I did not let that hold me back from being successful and I am not going to ever let my past effect my future. I am not going to become yet another statistic, I am not going to be another kid without a father who grew up in a poor neighborhood and did not amount to much. I am going to be the one to beat the odds and be successful in every aspect of life. This day is when a spark inside of me was lit and pushed me even more to be determined for