At the beginning of high school, I didn't know how life worked; I was still in the sweet dream that is adolescence. I didn't want to expend the effort required to overcome my fear of adulthood. Eventually I got over that hurdle, and now when I want something, I go get it. I still am not exceptionally talented in anything, and I do enjoy doing nothing but sleep from time to time. What I do have, however, is tenacity. I have a wide array of things I am good at simply because I tried hard enough and stubbornly didn’t quit tasks even when I easily could have dropped them. Although I am not good enough at tennis to make the U.S Open, I can say with pride that I made the varsity tennis team my first year of playing through hard work, not raw talent. I sang and danced in a musical, and did it well, then the next season I was playing varsity softball. My vast array of skills can be summed up in a phrase: “jack of all trades, master of
At the beginning of high school, I didn't know how life worked; I was still in the sweet dream that is adolescence. I didn't want to expend the effort required to overcome my fear of adulthood. Eventually I got over that hurdle, and now when I want something, I go get it. I still am not exceptionally talented in anything, and I do enjoy doing nothing but sleep from time to time. What I do have, however, is tenacity. I have a wide array of things I am good at simply because I tried hard enough and stubbornly didn’t quit tasks even when I easily could have dropped them. Although I am not good enough at tennis to make the U.S Open, I can say with pride that I made the varsity tennis team my first year of playing through hard work, not raw talent. I sang and danced in a musical, and did it well, then the next season I was playing varsity softball. My vast array of skills can be summed up in a phrase: “jack of all trades, master of