Riley's Influenced My Life

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The last words of the song resonate and echo through the auditorium. There are few beats of silence before the crowd starts to applaud. It sounds like thunder moving through the crowd as the girl on stage takes a bow and heads off, smiling as she goes.The spotlight shines on her as she walks away. I stay sitting in my seat, amazed by the song I just heard my sister sing. My older sister, Riley, is 16 years old. She lives with my and our parents in Marshall, MI, in the bedroom just across the hall from mine. She’s great at school, plays the french horn in her high school band, and loves hanging out with her friends. She inspires me because she works hard every day to become better at what she does, tries many things to reach her goals, and …show more content…

Even though she’s already good, she won’t stop until she gets better. She is always, always, always singing. I can hear her sing by herself in the shower at night through my bedroom walls, and in the car on the way to and from school. When she isn’t singing for practice, she’s singing because she loves to. She sings at school, too. Riley is in one of the choirs at her high school, and she has choir class every day. She also takes voice lessons outside of school so she can really excel. Riley is dedicated to singing, and it shows by how much work she does to get better. This is what inspires me the most about her. Not only does Riley work hard to become a better singer, she has a goal that she is always working …show more content…

For as long as I can remember, Riley has wanted to be an actress on broadway. This inspires me because she knows what she wants to do with her life, and not many kids her age do. I wish that I was as certain as she is on what she wants her life to be like, and how she is going to make it happen. Riley’s life is not complete unless she’s doing a play. She has been doing them since she was a little kid and she will be doing them for many years into the future. Doing plays now gives her a head start on the career she wants in the future. Riley has a plan to get where she wants to be, and that is inspiring. Most of the time, I don’t even have a plan for what i’m going to eat for breakfast. She has her life loosely mapped out, and that’s pretty amazing for a 16-year old. Riley will never stop until she reaches her goal. Riley inspires me because she is persistent and never stops trying. Sometimes it’s like she’s a marathon runner, still in the middle of the race. Giving up and walking would be so much easier, but she can’t if she want’s to win. She could skip doing a show once and awhile or only sing in one choir during the year, but she doesn’t because singing and theater is what she wants to do in her life, and she’ll need every second of practice that she can get. She never gives up. If she doesn’t get the part she wants, she keeps going. If she

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