Why am I who I am? I believe I am who I am because of what my family’s heritage has instilled in me. My father has spent his whole life working. His father never gave him anything except for food on the table. Anything my dad wanted he had to work for. That is why I am who I am. The constant reminders of whether or not I will succeed in life is reiterated to me every day in my head and by my parents. I want to succeed in life because my father had just like his father did as well. I never understood why it was so easy to get up on early weekend mornings to go play lacrosse. But then I truly got thinking I want to succeed. I will spend my whole life working. Not as a chore or a job but because I want too. I have been wired for success by my …show more content…
My sister exemplifies this. She was the shortest girl on all her lacrosse teams at every age level. One might think that this would be a deterrence to quit. However, she had the same mindset as my family of never quitting. She worked hard and was able to become a D1 athlete and a captain of her team. I looked up to her in this way and wanted to be like her. Sadly, I found the sport I loved to late in life and was highly under recruited, but I never let that stop me. I went from being the worst kid on a highly competitive and greatly skilled high school lacrosse team to becoming a starter by my junior-senior year. What I did not say before however was I started my lacrosse career halfway through my sophomore year in high school. For many the thought of going to college to play a sport with my experience was impossible. But I did. My grandfather taught me that nothing is impossible and that you have to work for it just like how he taught my father. Even now I could go out and be lazy because I have acquired my dream of being a college athlete. However, I don’t want to be just another kid who goes to a school to play sports. I want to be the greatest lacrosse player the school will ever