Influence of My Father on My Educational Journey

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Figuring out what made you is a hard thing to accomplish Is it a mixture of your mother’s intuition and your father 's stubbornness? Or is it the fact that you have his nose and her smile? Or is that distant look in your eye you got from your grandmother? To include education into this age old question brings up another. Who had the biggest impact on my life, the one who made me decide that continuing my education was worth it. I would have to say it would have to be my father, a man who believed he could make me into the child he wasn’t. My father Blake Christopher Thomas has had the biggest impact on my life in both positive and negative ways. He is the reason I decided to continue my education at San Francisco State University.
I am named after my father, a man whose deep hearted laughter could fill a room and whose stern words and big smile filled my whole world. Standing at 6’5 he was, for lack of better words, my skyscraper. Since a young age, my father’s worried. He worried if I would grow up to be a delinquent, an imbecile, or my mother. The same his way his father raised him, he wanted to do the same for me, with …show more content…

It was not hard on me on it more or so that they believed it was. For my mother, she gave fun, excitement and dreams. My Father gave me worry, worry I wouldn’t be able to succeed under her roof. Worry that I would not live the life he planned for me. So in return he got me every other weekend filled to the brim with books and requirements. If we went to a museum it educational museum, if we went the park I had to reach a certain height to be able to get off the swing. But I loved it, became the time I spent with him learning Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion, or reading one flew over the cuckoo’s nest and giving him a report at the end. It was the time I was able to spend with

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