The saying,” When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful” by Bloom has been a source of encouragement to me. As a young child, I faced scores of life challenges that almost made me despair. I am Chinese and left China for America when I was only twelve years old. Life for me in America was hard, but I have managed to overcome all the problems. My struggles in life have shaped my inspirations and dreams. The challenges have also changed me into an adaptive person who can adapt to any challenging life situation. I have learnt to use my struggles to set my future goals. In fact, I have learnt to embrace my struggles and burn them as fuel for my life journey. My poor background and my struggles have inspired me to take a challenging course in computer science. My term career goal is to become a computer scientist.
My dreams and inspirations have been considerably influence by my family, school and community. The most powerful influence of one’s life is his family. I come from a poor family where getting food to eat was a great achievement. Throughout my life that perhaps could have been jammed with all kinds of gifts from my parents, I was involved in handling my emotional suffering. I was not happy with my family, and I did not like what my parents were going through. Seeing them struggle to provide the most basic needs made me desire to do something in life that could help raise my family’s living standard.
My performance in school was not gratifying. I was an average student, and I felt that I did not put effort the way my parents would have liked. The situation got worse when my parents divorced, and I had no one to advice me on how to improve my grades. My family situation depressed me and made my school performance poorer. My mother was a well intentioned and informed person, and she assured me not to relent but rather strive hard. She assured me that our problems and my poor performance should instead help me focus in achieving the best in life. Having friends from well up and stable families triggered me to strive harder and work towards perfecting my life and that of my family.
I must admit that my struggles in life and my family problems have made me an adaptive person. They have also instigated a desire to try relentlessly until I achieve my goals. Doing my best in class and in life creates no time for me to get concerned about the failure. Apparently, failure has been a prospect to help me start intelligently. I have learnt to be a focused person. My failure in class changed for the better making me realize that people pass failure on their way to success. Things have now changed for the best; my school performance and dedication to achieving the best in life are sturdy enough to allow me take a course in computer science.
