What Is The Study Journey Essay

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Since I was a young boy, in fact since I have started my studying journey I hated the fact that I have have to go to school every day and wake up 7:30 in the morning. Since the elementary school I thought that my class mates who study all the time and never have fun or play with us are weird. So I was always make fun of them, bully them and call them nerds, so I didn’t care about my grades, I barley study to my tests, it was fine because it was just an elementary school, also my parents thought that it was fine because when it came to hand working I was the best they thought it just a matter of time and I will start liking the school and study, but I think I didn’t liked the school and studying because I used to have an issue with the fact …show more content…

But instead of that all of my focus and concentration was on playing soccer and my grades still bad. So my father had an idea, he let me join a football or soccer club because he didn’t want me to play in the street and probably hanging out with strangers who could teach me bad habits such as smoking and drugs, also he thought that in the club they will teach me commitment and how to work hard to achieve my goals. In fact, he was right in the club I became a new person I learned how to work hard and achieve my goals and commitment, but unfortunately only on soccer I was perfect but in school I was the same person who don’t care about his studies. However, I have barley passed the middle school with a very low grade, and I didn’t even care because at this period of my life I thought that I will become a professional soccer player so I worked hard on soccer but really bad in school. Later I began my high school journey, so my father gave me an advice it was “Study hard, and then you will be satisfied your entire life” my father said. But I didn’t take his advice seriously actually we have a saying in Kuwait it says “Listen with your right ear and let it go with your left ear” so this is exactly what I …show more content…

Then my father told me “forgot about football think about your future every member of our family is a successful person you must be successful, focus on your study” I wasn’t totally convinced about what he told me so he realized that I have an issue with listening to someone and do what he tells me. So he took me with him to see two of his friends, one of them was an engineer and the other was a normal employee a secretary I guess. Suddenly he whispered to me” who would you like to be like the engineer or the normal employee?” my father said, between me and myself I said I really don’t want to be like the normal employee, he graduated from high school with a low GPA and he is a secretary with a low salary. I didn’t want to live like him or duffer like him. Most of his salary is spent on loans and his wife and his kids. his financial situation was horrible. However, I liked the way the engineer live, he has a really good salary, wear the best clothes, riding the newest and fanciest cars and travelling twice a year, I definitely want to live his life. So my father words affected me to the better, I started to think about my future, I started to work hard in high school, I said to my self in those three years in high school are my future they are to be or not to be a successful man. After those three years in high school I got a really high GPA,

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