Personal Narrative: My Years Of Highschool

During my years of highschool I've struggled with many issues to become a successful member of society. Some ways I've been self reliant as a young adult is not listening to what people tell me I can or can't achieve something. For example, in the article “The Struggle for Human Rights” by Eleanor Roosevelt she says “We have put down here the rights that we consider basic for individual human beings the world over to have. Without them, we feel that the full development of individual personality is impossible” (Roosevelt 7). In one of my years of highschool I wanted to join the cheerleading team and realized I didn't care what people think and that I should do what makes me happy so that is exactly what I did. I didn't care what anyone
said even if it was negative towards me. Some sacrifices I made to succeed is no sleep and late nights doing homework to get good grades. They are significant to my struggles because it brought me to where I am now, which is almost about to graduate and to attend a college after high school. As Eleanor Roosevelt said “We must not be deluded by the efforts of the forces of reaction to prostitute the great words of our free traditions and thereby to confuse the struggle” (Roosevelt 14). Without struggles to be encountered life would be easy and everyone would have what they want without even working for it. Although, what keeps me moving and motivated to make good decisions are my parents. Knowing they weren't able to finish school because they made the decision to have a family and wasn't able to to go to school and take care of their family make me want to graduate and make them proud. In the end the struggles that I've faced are what made me who I am today and made me want to better myself and want to achieve my goals as I progress and get older for my mom and dad.