My Childhood Experience Essay

Experiences mold people into who they are destined to become. They teach lesson to the ignorant, inspire the stagnant, and spark the content. A person’s experiences write their past and present, and my experiences wrote a dramatic story. My story begins with a naive child who was blinded by the wicked’s of the world, but one day hell released it’s beast. The beast came in the form of shattering words cracking picture frames and smashing children's hearts. It tore a family into two and transformed this girl into an adult. The beast had hunted her down and handed her the role of a leading her siblings to success. But this evil didn’t gain power over the young child; inside of her it blossomed a caring heart that strived to ease the pain of others

through serving everyone she came in contact with. This eternal fire sparked me to serve and learn how to become great leader. In my effort to become a masterful leader I seeked help through a camp called Doe River Gorge.
Arriving at this camp, I was greeted with forced smiles and heartless words of encouragement.

I was in a program called Servant and Leadership Training; nicknamed as SALT or Slave and Labour Training. The nickname halfway sums up the program. Everyday we woke while the campers were sleeping, served when they woke, cleaned when they left, and learned when they were gone. We learned things such as how the Bible and Science are like Hamlet and revenge, and that to become a leader you must first set yourself apart for the masses. This idea is expressed by the brilliant businessman Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc once said, “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves”. This quote moved me to stay on task every day and to strive to do my best. My mindset encouraged my team to push past the unrelenting sandman that reminded us of our exhaustion, to overlook our aching muscles, and to see every smiling face as a success. I soon become the one that our counselors looked to for leadership. I was able to control our team in a way that they couldn’t. My ability to lead led me to run a store while I was there. I assigned my team members jobs, took care of issues, and open and closed for my boss. All of this taught me the importance of being a fair and stern leader; as well as contributing to my personal development.
Before going through this near death experience, I saw the role of a leader as a boss and my assumption was far from the truth. Lao Tzu says, “A leader

is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves”. A leader is there to guide and bring people together. I learned that I can’t go into a situation with a boastful attitude; I must go in with a servant's attitude. Apart from the five a.m. starts and my calist hands I thank that experience for molding me into a driven servant and a humble leader.