The future: As far as I’m concerned, it’s a blank slate. Sure, I have an idea of what I want it to be, law school, a lovely family, work my way up to being a hot-shot lawyer one day living in a big city, but one can never be sure. One can never be sure of where they’re going, only where they have been.
Most of you probably don’t understand what I mean by this, so let me elaborate. I have no idea what my future holds, but I do know what it could hold, what I could do, and what I want to do all because of past experiences, where I’ve been, what I’ve learned, what I’ve been taught. I use my roots, my morals, my values, my experiences to give me my edge, to get me ahead, to give me my direction.
Simple things like growing up in Savannah is what gave me my direction, growing up around the amazing role models I had that shaped me into the person I am today, having the challenges that taught me integrity and to work for what I want and to earn it. I know I want to be like my parents, earning everything they receive, being honest with everything they do, being a joy to be around. I know I want to feel pride in all my work, to look at something and be able to say “I did that” and be proud, and have others be proud of me. I know once I have children I want to set an example for them, be a role model for them, as my parents were for me. I know I want to be persistent, and never give up on my dreams, no matter how hard or far I may fall from them. I will succeed at whatever my future holds for me, and that is because of my past.
I will thrive wherever I am going, and that’s because of where I have been.
