My Legacy Essay

Author Jim Rohn once said that, “All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.” He is saying that every good person wants to improve the world in such a way that we cannot even comprehend that it is possible. He says that all people rich, poor, strong, or weak want to leave their mark on the world. A legacy that changes the entire world is the hardest to obtain, but that does not make it more important. Those who leave a legacy on the world are people who had an idea that no one else did, or had a dream to help everyone that they possibly could. Leaving a legacy does not mean affecting everybody. It means that a person changes somebody’s life for the better.

I have gone to school here all nine years going from kindergarten to eighth grade. I have accomplished many things, but there are also countless things I have done wrong or wish I could change. I hope people at Emmons will remember me for the good, not the bad. I have done things not only academically at Emmons, but also as an athlete, In seventh and eighth grade the boys basketball team that I played for at Emmons took second in our conference. Considering the size of my school, only about 20 boys in my grade, this was a big accomplishment for my teammates and me. This is one of the things I hope people will remember me for. As an athlete I also participate in track. Last year, and hopefully this year, I qualified for the IESA state meet in the high jump. This was my goal throughout the entire season and at the second to last meet I jumped the qualifying height of 5 feet and 1 inch. This was, in my opinion, the greatest athletic accomplishment I made at Emmons. I say that because not only did I actually have to do it, but I had to work for it every day. The track team practiced every day in 7th grade and I high jumped at every practice. It was a great accomplishment because I had to persevere and work for almost a month to achieve my goal. Another accomplishment I made at Emmons was winning the CML competition for my grade level. The CML was a math competition given within the accelerated class. Every month there was a six question test that we would take. At the end of the year the person with the most correct answers was the winner. In sixth grade I was the one with the most correct answers. These two and many other things are what I hope people at Emmons will remember me for. I want to remembered for things I am proud of not things I am ashamed of. I want the my legacy here to be of someone who I would look up to, not of someone I would look down