The Importance Of Tradition In My Life

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The sunlight was glaring down on my grandmother and I; the birds were chirping and playful noises could be heard from around the corner at the local elementary school, as usual we were walking down 29th Street towards a quaint little pizza shop, the sun was setting and soon it would be night, My grandmother placed a call in earlier to Louie’s and we were walking to go pick it up. To my family this was a very long standing tradition, and for me this tradition has been around my entire life, usually, once a month we would walk down the street and grab the pizza, but I walked out with much more than a pizza, many times I would walk out with the knowledge that influences me for the rest of my life. Every family has a tradition, for mine, it’s …show more content…

Louie’s taught me how not to take things for granted, and how with hard work you can get anywhere you want. Those are lessons I apply to my life everyday, especially when I’m working in ECT, The IT industry is a very hard and competitive field to get into not just anybody can jump off the street and do it, perseverance and the ability to adapt is absolutely critical to even get hired in the IT world, without those traits that I’ve learned over the years success in the industry I pursue would be incredibly hard if not absolutely impossible, and because of that when I’m doing what I love I stick to it and put in all of my effort. I believe everybody has a “Louie’s” a place in their childhood that has shaped and molded them over the years to become the individual that they are today. I’ll never forget those days growing up where I would visit Louie’s and grab a pizza with my grandmother, I have many, many memories of eating their food with my family and enjoying those short walks down the street. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Louie’s over the years it would be sometimes at the end of the day you can learn a lot from everywhere if you just stay humble and pay attention to your surroundings, because if you do, you can see how there 's a whole world full of value’s and information that you can apply to your life no matter who you are and what you do for a

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