Who am I, and what do I believe? - Jessica

The summer before freshman year had begun I was terrified to enter the new big world but I knew that my family would always be there for me to help me get through the bad times and the good. At that time I had really thought that they would always be there for me, but now that the days are getting closer were college is just around the corner I realize that I will be miles away from them knowing now that they aren’t going to be there physically for me anymore. But I know that I can make it because I made my mother a promise. She once told me a quote by Christopher Robin “Promise me that you’ll always remember you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” I promised her and now I believe in myself no matter what anybody else has said to me, and it has gotten me so far and so close to where I want to go in life. I believe in myself.

When my mom had first said this to me I shook it off and just said “ya’ya mom I know.”But thinking back at how long ago she said that to me and actually taking the advice and following through the promise, I have accomplished so much. I now know that whatever I set my mind to I can do it. For example I desperately wanted to be on the all-stars team for rugby my junior year so all season long I worked my hardest to prove to the coaches that I have what it would take to go, and by the end of the year I was accepted to go and went to Boise Idaho for the tournament. To me that proved how well that believing in myself worked, because I was one of the smallest girls that was there but I had the big dream. This to me proved that I was stronger and braver than I thought that I could ever be.

To me it was harder to see at first that I actually was smarter than what I thought I was. But when I first moved from Idaho to Montana I had a hard time with grades and fitting in. I went straight down on my grade point average and I was slowly going downhill on class rankings. But then one day my mom sat me down and we had us a long important talk. And the words she said to me changed my views on everything. “Jessica I am very disappointed in you.” She was talking about my schooling and then she told me, “If you don’t believe in something you will fall for everything.” From that moment on I had put my focus on everything that was important to me and anything that was going to carry me out through the tough runs. And now I can say that I am a happy person and I know in just a short time from now I will be living my dream and teaching young students. I am Jessica D. and I believe in myself and others around me.