Everything I do, I do it with a purpose. I do it with the hope to make my parents proud. I was raised by the two most hard working people I have ever met, and I aspire to be just like them and provide for my children the exact same way they provided for me and my siblings. My parents have given me every opportunity to be successful. They supported me in every sport I wanted to play. Drove me back and forth to practices, went to every game they could make, cheering me on in the stands. They let me get a job at 15, and I say let me because they didn't even want me to start working but I begged and begged and then when they finally agreed they took me back and forth to work. When college decision time came around they fully supported every thing I wanted to do. When I would get a bad grade I would be upset because I disappointed my parents not because of the grade. If I did something bad I was scared to tell my parents not because of the consequences I had to deal with but because I didn't want to let them down. I personally couldn't imagine myself at a point where I think I can finally say I made my parents proud.

I feel like there will always be a way to make them more proud, and there is absolutely no problem with that. It's something to work for, it's something to aspire to, and it's someone to make proud. I love my parents more then life itself and without them I would be no where. So here is to the parents that have been there through it all, that are their kids best friends, biggest supporters, their rocks, their therapists, their chauffeurs, and most importantly the ones we aspire to be. We love you.