In life you are destined to meet a lot of failures, but what if it takes you too far? what if you can not recover the failure? This is what I've learned during summer. My name is Adnan and my parents pressure me to put all my efforts into study there fore isolating all my friends from me. I spend all my week ends by my self while my friends hang out. I study to a point where I barely sleep any more. Even though, as bad as it sounds, this wasn't the worst failure. The worst failure was that I failed to get up to my parents expectations
FINAL DRAFT
In life you are destined to meet a lot of failures, but what if it takes you too far? what if you can not recover from this failure? I’m a 18 year old senior at Hokkaido International School, located in Sapporo. Coming to this school, I’ve seen a lot of people with different backgrounds, people with different skin colors, and people with different ways of thinking. In this high school, people uses the phrase “Have fun in high school” or “Work hard party harder” quite often. Since they come from different backgrounds with different expectations, they are able to believe in those phrases and sayings, unlike me. My parents are very uptight about education making my worst failure being about reaching my parents’ biggest expectations.
Coming from a far different background from anyone else in the school, my father ran away from his family to marry my mother because of his arranged marriage. After my father running away, as a turn of events, my father’s family and family in law was in a huge debt which fell onto his hands. He invested all the time he had to study and become a doctor which he did. Slowly paying “his” debt little by little. The definition of “high school” and “education” for him had changed. He will never be able to vision high school liked he used to or like how anyone else does anymore. Both of my parents have the same vision of high school putting me in a spot where I am forced and pressured to do what they did.
Expectations on education from my parents are very high. Like they say, expectations can break relationships and they can also build relationships. I devoted and sacrificed all my time, space, and friends just to study for them and reaching their expectations. Last year, I spent my whole year studying for the SAT, day and night. My schedule consisted of nothing other than study and sleep. The word “fun” had no place in this madness. Yet, I am fine with it, studying for this one damned exam. I took the test which was placed before the summer and received my results during the summer. I achieved 2300 which my parents had expected a score of 2400; the perfect score. I thought my score was worth the sacrifice that I have given to this test but not to0 my parents, and their solution was abandon me. The two people that had brought me into this beautiful world had decided to disown me.
What is wrong and what is right. Is this my parents fault for setting such a high expectation or is it my fault for not reaching it. Just like a movie, after the climax comes the resolution. My resolution was to get a better score this upcoming SAT exam which is going to be on the 7th of November which is in 11 days. I have never been so prepared yet mad at the same time. Now I’ve devoted much more time than I did last time cause I felt that there was something to be proven. I felt like if it was a barrack, a boot camp and my parents were the lieutenants that had confiscated my life until I graduate.
Even though their actions didn’t speak to me but since they are my parents, they have all the rights to make the rules. They are the rule-makers, they can never be wrong just like a referee to any sports, they can give you a red-card whenever they want and you don’t get to fight with them. Since the word failure or in this case, expectations is judged by my parents and not me making this experience the worst failure I’ve had this far into life, through proxy.
FINAL DRAFT
In life you are destined to meet a lot of failures, but what if it takes you too far? what if you can not recover from this failure? I’m a 18 year old senior at Hokkaido International School, located in Sapporo. Coming to this school, I’ve seen a lot of people with different backgrounds, people with different skin colors, and people with different ways of thinking. In this high school, people uses the phrase “Have fun in high school” or “Work hard party harder” quite often. Since they come from different backgrounds with different expectations, they are able to believe in those phrases and sayings, unlike me. My parents are very uptight about education making my worst failure being about reaching my parents’ biggest expectations.
Coming from a far different background from anyone else in the school, my father ran away from his family to marry my mother because of his arranged marriage. After my father running away, as a turn of events, my father’s family and family in law was in a huge debt which fell onto his hands. He invested all the time he had to study and become a doctor which he did. Slowly paying “his” debt little by little. The definition of “high school” and “education” for him had changed. He will never be able to vision high school liked he used to or like how anyone else does anymore. Both of my parents have the same vision of high school putting me in a spot where I am forced and pressured to do what they did.
Expectations on education from my parents are very high. Like they say, expectations can break relationships and they can also build relationships. I devoted and sacrificed all my time, space, and friends just to study for them and reaching their expectations. Last year, I spent my whole year studying for the SAT, day and night. My schedule consisted of nothing other than study and sleep. The word “fun” had no place in this madness. Yet, I am fine with it, studying for this one damned exam. I took the test which was placed before the summer and received my results during the summer. I achieved 2300 which my parents had expected a score of 2400; the perfect score. I thought my score was worth the sacrifice that I have given to this test but not to0 my parents, and their solution was abandon me. The two people that had brought me into this beautiful world had decided to disown me.
What is wrong and what is right. Is this my parents fault for setting such a high expectation or is it my fault for not reaching it. Just like a movie, after the climax comes the resolution. My resolution was to get a better score this upcoming SAT exam which is going to be on the 7th of November which is in 11 days. I have never been so prepared yet mad at the same time. Now I’ve devoted much more time than I did last time cause I felt that there was something to be proven. I felt like if it was a barrack, a boot camp and my parents were the lieutenants that had confiscated my life until I graduate.
Even though their actions didn’t speak to me but since they are my parents, they have all the rights to make the rules. They are the rule-makers, they can never be wrong just like a referee to any sports, they can give you a red-card whenever they want and you don’t get to fight with them. Since the word failure or in this case, expectations is judged by my parents and not me making this experience the worst failure I’ve had this far into life, through proxy.
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