Jk Rowling Failure

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From the words of J.K. Rowling’s “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”, she really focused on what reality is soon to be for the graduates of Harvard University. Rowling’s parents wanted a different path for her as do all parents that want the best for their children. It seems that her parents were prone to poverty and they did not want her to struggle with the same issues. In a previous life her parents had been poor and so had Rowling’s and her daughter as she stated at the commencement“as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless”. Rowling’s quote states that “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to …show more content…

My parents divorced when I was only six years old and it was just my mom and I. My mom always worked two jobs or more just to make ends meet. When I moved out, only at the age of sixteen I started to learn bills and how to manage my money on my own. I became responsible for what I would do to make ends meet and my journey was good and bad along the way. I can say that seven years later, I have become great at saving my money for the hard times and my family would say the same for me. However; I have also been put in situations where I had to move back home from college and travel an hour each day to and from, because I did not have enough money to pay bills any more. No matter how much training someone gets in life on how to live it, they will almost always inevitably fail along the way. Whether their parents rather them stay home and keep the job that brings in $60,000 a year or go to college and make over 100K, it all comes down to the person that will create and live that life. What they choose to do with their life, just like what I chose at sixteen is up to them. I was old enough to take the wheel, so the responsibility was with

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