The courage to have faith in yourself

life is like riding a bicycle. When I learned to ride a bike, I started off with training wheels, and then as I grew up, I learned to ride the bike without the training wheels, sometimes I fell because I needed to accustom myself with only two wheels. But, finally I learned how to balance myself with two wheels. Riding the bicycle best explains how life has given me the strength, to overcome the challenges that life faces me in an everyday basis.

Being the oldest sibling in the family has not been easy. I’ve always believed that anything is possible in life, if we just believe in ourselves. I strongly believe this because my experiences make me learn how to become a successful person. I’ve learned this through my experience in high school.

When I entered high school, life became a struggle. Like any ordinary teenager, I had to confront the peer pressure that surrounded me and at the same time focused on school to obtain a good GPA. The biggest struggle I had to overpass was not letting my friends influence my behavior. This was hard because if I didn’t do what my friends wanted me to do, then I wasn’t cool enough to hang around with them. Having to give up school to hang out with my friends wasn’t exactly how I planned high school to be. Therefore, it dreaded me to know that I wasn’t going to have friends because I wanted to do well in school and breaking my parents heart by converting myself into a bad girl, was not something that my parents deserved after everything they have provided in life for me.

I remember going home and not regretting the time I spent talking to my mother about the issues that were going on in school. That day she helped me find my identity. The advice that I got from her and that will always be in my heart is when she said to be yourself and not another person that you are not. Being another person will only make you weak and there are greater things in a person’s personality than trying to fit in. These words went deep into my soul that it gave me the courage to stand up for myself and not let others affect me, but it even helped me into doing very well in school to make my parents and myself proud of my accomplishments.

Life is not easy. The experiences of peer pressure with my friends made me realize that I needed to stand up for myself and not let it drag to the ground. Just like the time where I had to accustom myself with riding a bike with two wheels. There are going to be times where life is going to seem unfair but there is always a way out to your struggles. The secret into confronting your problems is by looking deep down into your soul and do what you want to do. All it takes is the courage to have faith in yourself. This I believe.