I believe that anything can be achieved through doing hard work. I found this to be true not only through looking at people who are around me but also through personal experience. I started believing in this after many trials and fails I faced throughout my childhood. No matter how many stupid things I did, I never even thought of getting better.
As a child I wasn’t raised in a bad neighborhood, I got into a lot of trouble almost everyday and it had somehow found me. Whether or not it was me getting in trouble at home or at school, I wasn’t heading the path that I had to. I didn’t know what I wanted in life and who I wanted to be in the future but what I knew is that I wanted to be successful but I didn’t know how I was going to get there. That’s when I was introduced to my dad’s friend who was convicted of a felony. He told me his story about how he ended up in prison.
It started back in his childhood, he wasn’t the greatest child, he always got in trouble. No matter what his friends and parents told him not to do, he always did the opposite. Skipping to his senior year in college, he got arrested a bunch of times and later on in his life he got in prison for a long time. When he got out of prison he decided that he needs to change his life in a good way and start making good choices. He began working hard everyday to show himself that he is better than that, got a family and lives happy.
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Since that day, I decided to myself that I don’t want to be arrested or end up in prison for doing stupid things. I began working hard everyday on my behavior and choices that I had to make. Every morning I started to wake up and say to myself that “Who am I if I don’t do good stuff in life?” I started thinking of people around me and how my behavior reflects on them, not only am I hurting myself but I’m also hurting people around me.
After a while I began noticing that I’m doing much better, I’m feeling better not only about myself but also about things that I do. People around me also started noticing that. My parents always kept telling me that if you want people to act good towards you, you have to act good towards them but I never listened to them. Now that I’ve changed my life and I get what they were talking about.
That story about my dad’s friend fixing his life after prison gave me a push in a positive direction for my life to change forever. I had support from my family and friends and thank all of them for sticking around with me.
