Face of Reality Everyone had at least faced the harsh truth of reality once. It is not easy, but it can take a while. Some may be successful, but others may fall and meet an early end if one were to give up. Life varies among the billions of people inhabiting the Earth. That’s the sad truth of the world we live in. Who would win at being the worse at life? That’s not an excuse.
Ever since kindergarten, everyone was told you can be anything you want to be. Each child was asked and they all chose something like a rock star, secret agent, an astronaut and even a superhero. All the answers were the same. As I grew older, I understand that is unrealistic. Let’s choose something more realistic. I want to be an engineer. Despite my efforts and not having the ability to “think like an engineer”, I was hopeless. I thought my purpose was to make my parents proud, but I have further
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My choices were narrowed down even further, but that is okay. I haven’t gave up. When I was around 4 years old, I would get beaten a lot. My parents have high expectations of me. They wanted to have a son that would succeed as much as they could imagine. My parents were Vietnamese immigrants that came to the United States around the nineties. Growing up wasn’t so easy. My mother did not know English and my father was away trying to make money to support the family. They did whatever they could do. Ever since I first went to school for the first time, I would get physically abused for not living up to their standards. Whether, I was crying because I was bullied or got a disciplinary citation from school for breaking a minor rule, I would get beaten with a stick until they vented all their anger out and kneel against the wall. It would happen almost every day as far I could remember. Many chopsticks and bamboo canes were broken. “It is tradition”, my relatives said including other people outside of my
That is a common question, to pre-schoolers, to fifth graders, to tenth graders. It is a tricky question, most adults don’t know what they want to be in the future. I don’t either to be completely honest with you. At first I wanted to be a firefighter, then a NASCAR racer driver, then an architect, then an artist. And now I want to be a music producer and a rapper. Odd how we change the course of our future. I wish I can change my past but as much as I dream that I could. I can’t, but what I can do is to try and change the future. All I see now is sadness, sadness in young teenagers, sadness in parents, sadness in teachers. We are becoming the outcome of something. Something that we just can’t seem to understand, but it is destroying
All of my life I have been a city girl, but I moved to Santa Rosa when I was about 13. Up until I was about 16, I lived there permanently. I used to switch back and forth from parent to parent all of the time. When I first started high school, I went to Piner High and, in my junior year, I went to Montgomery and, from there, to a continuation school. I am currently now back at Piner. I had to basically kick and scream to get back into my regular high school--as you can see there is some drama behind the scene.
Whoever said that we were supposed to take everything on faith? Not God, that's for certain. He's always told us to try it for ourselves, and see if it makes our lives better. I'll never forget the day my high school chemistry teacher had a nervous breakdown because he tried to understand a universe where there was no God, whatsoever. (That is true, to my knowledge, by the way.)
Probably the most important turning point in my life happened in 1992. At this time, I was eight years old and living in Williamsport Pennsylvania. My dad had a well-paying job at Anchor Darling Valve Company, I was attending a parochial school and I thought life was just great. At the time we lived in a large four-story house with a separate three-story garage and an acre of forest for a backyard. I had a ten-speed bicycle and I would often go bicycling with my friends at the nearby cemetery. No-one ever objected to this, in fact people would often have picnics at the top of this hill at the cemetery. I guess the only things I ever complained about were the constant music lessons and practice sessions my parents subjected me to.
The experience of the APEC Youth Science festival was incredible. It has had an enormous impact on me in many ways, changing the way I look at the world and connecting me with people and events far beyond my formerly limited experience. I am extremely glad to have had this opportunity. It was a wonderful experience on multiple levels. It challenged me and expanded me intellectually and socially. I feel that this experience has had an immense impact on me.
When we were young, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were generally things like astronauts, princesses, rock stars, spies, professional sports players, or even The President of the United States for the really ambitious ones. We were unaware that in just a few short years, we would get the same exact question, but the adults asking would be expecting a much more serious answer. The reality of this situation is that we are now the adults. However, when they said that we are supposed to have a serious and clear plan
Some life lessons are better to be learned at an early stage at life and for my situation it’s good that I did. I learned that one should never depend on others when it comes to doing your own work. You have to work hard to get what you want, you can’t just wait for others to do it for you. This is one of the toughest lessons I learned and it’s good that I learned it. Although, it was tough for me the way I learned it.
Albert Einstein once stated “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”. Throughout my life, I have faced numerous obstacles, which have forced me to keep pedaling even when my balance was gradually becoming unstable. Approximately 2 years ago, my family and I decided to move from Kansas to Washington since my father acquired a position at Microsoft. As you might imagine leaving everything you have come to cherish over the past 16 years of your life would be extremely difficult. However, I persevered and kept my balance as I escalated up this steep hill. In a few months, nearly all of us will experience a new hill waiting to be conquered. This hill is called college. All of us who choose to undergo this challenge will struggle and several of us will venture off course, but the remaining persistent bikers will surmount this hill and end up with a degree. In my case, I’m going to kick my legs into 5th gear and start ascending this hill at Bellevue College.
An excellent business woman or man leads with their head held high with little to no worries. Business Administration has pushed me into the direction of becoming a strong leader. Growing up I did not have many resources to navigate me in the right direction. I was born in Harbor City, California and raised in the city of Compton. Opportunities and roll models were not completely there for me which caused me to not have much to lean or rely (CSULB). I am the first in my family to even reach the point of community college. People in my neighborhood laugh at the idea of going to college. Around my neighborhood there are not many businesses that benefit my city and what it consists of. Education is highly low and the risks of jobs are dropping due to population. At a young age I decided that when
In this essay/report I will explain to the best of my abilities, my possible career path. I have wanted to be many things. In grade 1, I wanted to be a superhero, and that hope stayed out for a while. Later on, when I was 10, my brain started getting new ideas, exploring the world around me, thinking of other things aside form cartoons and I thought to myself, how in the world am I going to become a superhero? I started thinking of other jobs like firefighter, police officer, engineer, construction worker etc., etc. But then I decided it was no good. Then one day when I was watching an interview on TV, a firefighter was being interviewed and one of the questions was: How long did it take you to decide what you wanted to be? And he said a long time. Then I wondered how long a long time would be, I wanted to jump into the TV and ask the guy how long a long time was. Hmm, I wondered, how long is a long time and then I answered my question. “It’s going to be a long time ‘till it’s a long time, I’ve got nothing to worry about.” That question just flew off my mind until at the start of grade eight when I encountered this question again, and I answered it. It took a while and some research but I answered it. I want to be a Neurosurgeon when I grow up.
One of my most memorable event that took place while I was at High Point was during my junior year. I remember that I was going through a phase in my life. I was changing into someone who is stronger, ambitious, and more determine in life. This event occur over a period of several months. It involve some of my closest and best friends that I will ever have. This little incident had particularly changed the course of my life and would forever leave a mark in my life.
Imagine one minute blazing hot about ninety-eight degrees to a cool calm breeze, that’s here in the Sunshine State. Seventeen years of living in this state has been an abundance of life changing events. It was my first day in junior high school, every dramatic parents crying with their son or daughter. Starting from the first day you have a load of classes like math, science, social studies, gym, and sadly reading. Ever since I started school reading hasn’t been my favorite. Thick paragraphs of words trying to create a meaning didn’t mean anything to me.
The road to success is not ever a consecutive straight paved. In order to succeed, you must face bumps and curves. Your willingness to accept failure because you know positive possibility could come out, and the way you react to failure determines your next step to success. With my personal experience of failure, I could recall the several times failing my math class test. Since I can remember math has never naturally come to me. Said by Galileo math is the language of the universe; for me, math is a language I just can’t grasp. As with math and I, I’ve consistently tried. I always get up and aspire once more for the best result, however, when it came to math, it was my downfall.
Hardships are not unknown to me, life has often decided to sprinkle a little dash of hopelessness here and there. It seems to me that life is meant to be difficult, that it is meant to push me so close to the breaking point, only to then to give me a little relief. Life, in my opinion, has a dark, sadistic, sense of humor, but I still appreciate it. Weird, right? You see I believe that my life obstacles have helped me have a greater sense of appreciation for the good moments in my life, they have become even more precious.
The one question you hear all the time as a little kid is “what do you want to be when you grow up.” Most children give the same three answers: doctor, lawyer, or astronaut. The adult who asked the question usually replies with a little chuckle underneath their breath because they know what achieving one of these prestigious jobs entail. In today’s world only the elite will ever have a chance of receiving such an astounding career opportunity. Now, looking back at the top three answers given by children, the reality of becoming a doctor or a lawyer is much more likely than receiving the job as an astronaut. Today the qualifications you must meet to be eligible for this career include: exceling in an array of required skills, passing rigorous physical exams all while finding a unique way to distinguish your self from the thousands of other hopeful applicants.