How I Have Understood The Importance Of Education
My earliest memory is vaguely seeing my father come home late with my stay at home mom and siblings when I was younger. With my family, there was no communication. My parents had their problems at the time and my siblings are four and five years older than I am but we got along just fine.
Over the years I participated in sports, eventually entered middle school and didn’t understand why I was weird in school at the time. Slowly without fully understanding what self-awareness was, analyzing now I knew I had strong feelings and emotions but I didn’t know what to do but hold in. For my age I went through puberty and matured at a very young age. I felt loneliness and out of place because of my household influences. Opening up about my internal and external thoughts and feelings to the counselors they had diagnosed me of being “hormonal” or that I was going through “phases” but my personality, my emotions and thoughts were all me.
At the early age I knew I had complicated feelings and emotions but I didn’t know possibilities life had to offer. At the ending of the eighth grade, I learned about college or at least had an idea that with it, could lead to so many opportunities. My mother did not get to finish high school so all I would hear would be is how much she dreamed she finished school. I was close to my mom after a few years and eventually got along with my dad. My father worked for a family of five as a teacher and worked plenty of side jobs just to put food on the table. By junior year, I had a job at International House of Pancakes to help with the finances at home. Even if I would get back at 2 am or random hours of the night, my pay was very little for the hard work being 2. 14 an hour, depending on tip. Eventually I had enough for all my necessities and had money to spare and looking back with all the struggles and stress, I was finally able to learn the hardships of finance.
Having to work to help my father with bills, making me understand things in more depth. Knowing the importance of school, the importance of education giving me ambition to thrive on my own with an education. I was self-aware of my surroundings, and overall myself as a person. Where I stood in society and realized that maturing at a young age is not at all bad, but good as it taught me value as an individual. Now better than ever as a senior I know college is important and with all this ambition, it is a need to finish school and attend college to better myself and make my family proud. As my mom would say every time, she would drop me off at school, “Si se puede hija, hechale ganas. ”
