As a student, I’ve always strived to actively participate in my school as much as possible. This all started in middle school when I chose to participate in ASB leadership, track, football, and basketball. I feel that my motives to take on as many tasks as possible stemmed from the strong encouragement from my parents. My dad never attended college, and my mom only attended for a short period of time, and as a result of this, neither were able to obtain their ideal career path. Due to this, my parents constantly reminded me as I grew up about the importance of doing well in school and becoming the first in the family to earn a college degree. I learned quickly that by actively participating in school activities, academic success was made that much easier …show more content…
I reaped the rewards of this as much as possible in middle school as I made many new friends by participating in sports and ASB. I remember as my eighth grade year came to a conclusion about how excited I was to continue playing sports and as a result, make new friends throughout my upcoming four years of high school. This all came to a drastic halt when my parents no longer allowed me to participate in football due to the increased physical competition and subsequent unsafe nature of the high school game, and when I was cut from the freshman basketball team. For the first time in my life, I had found myself unable to participate in the activities that had my brought me happiness and academic motivation. For a while, I lost all motivation to participate in my school and as a result, I didn’t participate in any extracurriculars and lost my perfectionist goal of achieving a 4.0 my freshman year. As my freshman year came to an end, I looked back on my first year of high school and realized that I didn’t want my remaining