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Open Letter To The Person Who Said I Couldn't

Doing better than what people say you can do is so satisfying.

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Open Letter To The Person Who Said I Couldn't

This is a letter to all the people that said that I would not able to do something with my life. I have little something to tell you in this matter. I have come far in my life and have done more than what has been expected of me. I have risen from fates that could be considered worse than death to some.

When I was little, I had two main things pounded into my thick skull. First was that I had a learning disability that the doctor could not diagnose, and that with that disability and who I was, I would not go far. This learning disability is always is rewiring my brain so it is an ever changing fight. There has never been an easy way to deal with it. In fact, there have been times that I have given up on myself for the fact, even in my own family and teachers, there was not much hope for my education. A member of my family it was said that the teachers just let me slide on by. So I never thought that going to college was something was for me, let alone make it far in life.

So when I started looking at colleges, I at first did not take it serious. Then one day, one of the teachers at my school came up to me to set me straight. He thought that there was too much potential that was being wasted by me not trying. It took them about a year to change my mind on this at which point I started to try harder at school, getting better grades, and looking at schools. It took time to find where to go on short notice.

Going back into old habits happens at times for me, especially when people say that I do not seem smart by the way I talk or walk. However, I have come too far to go back to those ways. Life may never get easier for me, but that does not mean I should just give up on becoming better.

So now to the people that have that have had the similar things said or told to them, it will get better, if not today, tomorrow, but I promise it will get better if you strive for it. You just need to smile and nod, then work twice as hard for what you are aiming for to prove them wrong twice as fast. You have to work for what you want in life and people will always try to hold you back, but it will get better. So it’s up to you to decide if you are going to reach and fail, then never being better than what you are.

In life you have the choice and I have made them both. All I have to say is doing better than what people say you can do is much more satisfying than anything else. So aim for moon and even if you miss you will still land among stars.

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