Personal Narrative: My Life Story

Let me first of all say that I’m Nigerian and how big a deal and normal it is for at least 7 out of 10 Nigerian parents to continuously nag their children about how many relatives are watching them and waiting for them to succeed. Most times the children including myself have no idea who most of these extra relatives are because previously we only knew a handful now members of the community and church attendees who we once said hello to because our parents accidentally bumped into them after mass join that category. And let me not forget the already married and unmarried but successful children of aunts and uncles and may be one or two or may be ten more unknown relatives they’ll constantly talk about in the form of comparison. So yes, to …show more content…
Like I said earlier my family plays a huge role in my motivation by reminding me about known and unknown relatives. However for me it is very important to remind myself that my life story and their life stories are completely different. That I am not one and the same with them and that because we are all different individuals our beginnings and endings vary. With this thought process I always remind myself that in my search for success I don’t want to lose what makes me unique and I don’t want to live my life vicariously through someone else’s life path and more than anything don’t want to convince or deceive myself into doing something I know I’m not comfortable with. I want to understand what it means to get to where I want and be able to answer if what I want is really what I want and not because that’s how someone else got theirs. And if it is, why in the world are my still sitting and thinking that there’s no way I can achieve it or what way do I choose to go to achieve …show more content…
I’ve heard a lot of stories about how difficult it is and how different the curriculum is compared to freshman and sophomore general courses. I’ve also seen it firsthand that it is no joke. But I always tell myself why do twice what you could have done once. Why take a course and not do the best that I can to at least be done with it or do the best that I can because I owe it to myself to perform based on my assessment of my skills and not based on the stories of other people. It’s very easy to lose one’s self to the stories of others and very easy to count the blessings of others rather than one’s own because the mind gets overwhelmed with everything going on. So for me my thought process is such an important aspect of my