A Smooth Sea never made a Skilled Sailor
People learn with age and mistakes, and life inevitably hurls endless whirlwinds of complications at us, however the more complications we endure, the better we handle them, the easier they become, and the wiser we grow.
I began life in Hill Top, an estate in West Bromwich. It has never been the nicest place to live and when I was younger it was probably at its most degenerate state. Gangs flourished on the estate, crime rate was exceptionally high and the barbaric depths of poverty were forever increasing. Growing up in the local primary school I had learnt how to handle myself, how to handle the gangs and stay out of trouble, learnt right and wrong and obtained my morals.
I did well in primary school, consistantly hitting top marks in class as well as achieving sporting success, captained the football team and ran cross country races for year 5 & 6 when I was just year 3. In ways my sporting success helped me a lot growing up, it helped me make friends, stay out of the trouble and kept me off the streets.
Upon leaving primary school I went to Alexandra High in Tipton. It was here I matured and became who I am now, however drastic changes and situations constantly hunted me. As though I was cursed, as if somebody had control over my life and just wanted me to lose my mind. The unpredictability and fluctuations of my life evidently made it agonizingly strenuous.
My life seemed to be going well when at 14 I got trials for Stoke City, I've played football since I was 7, it helped me loads and still does. It’s my pass time and its the one thing I do to take my mind off things. I passed the trials and got offered a scholarship, however I rejected after deciding I wanted to focus o...
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...h, who was and still is almost certainly the most important person in my life, I was undoubtedly the happiest I have ever been or at least the happiest I ever remember being, and my life was continually improving still. I got my grades, and not only that but I got into King Edwards. My life is still at a high, but due to the merciless circumstances life throws at us, I know it is only a matter of time before the destructive, ruthless wave of tribulation comes crashing upon me once more.
On my 17th birthday I got “A Smooth Sea never made a Skilled Sailor” tattoo’d on my left rib. A quote which in my lowest point, helped me and drove me to move forward, a quote that repeatedly reminds me that the skills you obtain and learn in life, can only come through the struggles and hardships, and it motivates me every single day to make the most of the high points in life.
Playing sports and joining clubs in school helped me focus on what is important in life, like finishing school and graduating. Like Strickland started his pottery, that is how I was with soccer. I did not let people around me influence me because I knew what mattered the most in life. Unlike the people that surrounded Strickland when he was younger, he treated every one he met with respect and he did not care who you were he would try and help you out. As I mentioned before that is how Mr. Delbridge was with me and my fellow classmates.
My participation in high school sports have made me into leader as well as helped me gain relationships with friends that will last a lifetime. It has also taught me to rely on the people around me and work together with your team to accomplish your goals. Being a part of a sports team has also influenced my decision making because in order to participate on the team you have to have good behavior, and be a good student
Overall, I am glad that I had the opportunities growing up to attend different types of schools. They shaped me into the person that I am today and helped to make me successful, along with the fact that I am very competitive, take pride in what I do and take the time to learn how to work with others. I believe these traits have gotten me as far as I am
In my life, I had not had the chance to be a part of something that influenced me much, until I joined football my freshman year in high school. Joining football was perhaps the most devoted and wisest thing that I did because shortly after joining I began to see changes for the better, and from then I saw the person that I wanted to be in the future. In other words, it shaped the person that I am today and will be for the rest of my life. Not only did the sport influence me but it also equipped me with a new mindset that affects me today in my decision making skills, time management and many other beneficial life virtues. I believe that these virtues will bring me success in the nearest future because I feel confident about myself and I feel more in control in my life through my actions, all thanks to simply joining what seemed to be a “regular” extracurricular.
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Some say wisdom comes with old age, I guess I am wise beyond my years. You see even though I am only seventeen, I have been provided with numerous life experiences that have both challenged me mentally and molded me emotionally. In her book, You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt states that the best part of learning is “the capacity to learn from each thing you see, from each fact you acquire, from each experience you have, from each person you meet” (14). By saying this, Roosevelt is stating that we learn throughout everything we view and live through, not just what we read about in school. There have been a number of life lessons that have helped guide me, and they will continue to steer me throughout the rest of my life. They will grow
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Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.