Perserverence

Life is always easy on TV. There are the lawyers who just graduated from law school who are already wearing expensive suits and living in large homes. Or a guy who is supporting a family who lives in a large house in the city. Outside of TV, my guidance counselor said that all we had to do was to come up with goals to achieve and we would be successful.

What nobody tells you is that that there is a road that you must take to reach your goals. And you have to work hard. To earn a college degree, you have to apply for school and give the school your transcripts and take a standardized test. Once you get accepted to school, you must attend classes, write papers, and pass tests. Not only that, but you have to find a way to pay for classes. You only get your degree when you have finished your classes with an acceptable grade point average. It takes three to four and half years to get a degree, but on TV they just show a person who says she wants a college degree and then the next day she gets it.

When I went to school, there were many people who I knew who dropped out in the first semester. They couldn't manage their time between drinking and studying. Some people thought that since high school was easy college would be easy, and they didn't expect to have to study and go to class and write papers. I notice that people don't just have this attitude with college but also with marriage. Marriage isn't what many people expect and they quit when they realize this.

I have found that if a goal is worth achieving than it is worth working hard for it and perservering through trials to achieve your goal. Whether it is marriage or getting a degree, some things are worth fighting for.