Persuasive Essay: Fighting To Change

Fighting to change
“You will hate me for making you do this but appreciate it later on” was what my mother informed me before she declared what she was going to make me do. When I was more inexperienced in life, my mother assumed I was lazy and while this was true she believed this for mistaken reasons. She never noticed me engaged in extracurricular activities because they were all at school. Most of these were clubs, hanging out with friends and I was also earning superb grades at the time being. She always criticized me about not doing anything but when I tried to validate it to her that I was actually active, she would ignore the evidence every time and say that I was always playing video games which was somewhat accurate but should not take away from the fact that I was
After a while of her thinking I do not really have anything to do subsequent to school, she coerced me to do something, and this was martial arts. She had a talk to me about it that was undeniably one sided. I pleaded and begged for her to not make me do something I desperately did not want to do, but it was to no avail at all. We had arguments, squabbles, and shouting matches over this but there was nothing to argue about because I could not possibly win; I simply did not have a say in the matter. She forced martial arts on me which is very cliche for an Asian mother to do but at least it was not extra studying or dreaded piano lessons. She proclaimed "You are going to be doing martial arts starting tomorrow."
The following morning I heard a ding dong and my mother unlocked the door. A stocky short man who was fairly muscular came inside. He greeted a hi to me, told me his name and I did the same to him. Then we both went to the living room so we could initiate the class. He was exceedingly friendly so although I truly did not appreciate doing martial arts, I always did it for him out of respect in the beginning because he always gave respect to me. We