I was able to leap over some pretty high hurdles that appeared in front of me during my life. I would not have been able to soar over these obstacles if I did not have the reserve of my amazing house - my father, mother and brother. They not only supported me, but more importantly they believed in my potential to reach my seemingly unattainable goal to come to be a veterinarian. My father was the quiet gentleman that laughed in the background in our house and all the time held a newspaper in his hand while he watched golf, basketball or some other sport on television. Dottie, my mother, took me and Celia Martinez to many activities in New York City, along with roller derby training in Staten Island. We traveled four hours roundtrip from the Bronx on the subway and ferry every weekend for any months.
The long trip was absolutely worth it because Celia and I enriched our friendship and laughed heartily when we repeatedly fell on the steeply banked roller derby track. My younger brother had a bedroom that continuously overflowed with pets. He had a piranha that would cause his friends to erupt into raucous laughter each time they fed it fish and he also had gerbils that constantly propagated pink babies that were buried under the wood chips in a small glass cage. You would think that my brother was the one destined to come to be a veterinarian instead of me!
But if it was not for Aunt Loretta, I never would have begun my journey to come to be a veterinarian. She uncovered my deeply buried desire to come to be a veterinarian, a desire that was covered by many layers of fear - a fear of animals. My house often visited my Aunt Loretta and after some time she sternly informed me that she would no longer put Taddy and Dinky in the basement while I was there. Aunt Loretta insisted that I come to be more familiar with her two dogs that would be allowed to freely roam the house during my hereafter visits. I of course cherished going to her house, so in a very brief time I became accustomed to having Taddy and Dinky circle around me to smell the appealing scents that accompanied me into the house. A sudden turn of events occurred for me. The more that I was around the dogs, the more my fascination with all animals grew. The fear that had me running from animals transformed into an obsession that had me running to read all the animal linked books that I could find.
By the time I was thirteen years old I was of course certain that I wanted to come to be a veterinarian. I began to plan how I could begin my quest to achieve this goal. My plans included attending a premier academic high school and college. After being admitted to any high schools, I decided to attend one of the top ranked high schools in New York City, the Bronx High School of Science.
Now that may sound great, getting appropriate into one of the top schools in New York City, but having a love of science and achieving academic success were not particularly enviable where I grew up. However, I refused to allow my environment to work on what I wanted to achieve and I maintained a steady focus on my goal at all times. In life you have choices to make. You are the major contributor to the outcomes of events in your life. It is up to you to determine how you talk to issues that face you and you must determine how you will allow these circumstances to work on you.
My environment did not quench my zeal to learn (because I chose not to allow it to) and I performed well scholastically in high school. I finally wanted to attend Cornell University because they had a veterinary school and I just could not envision myself anywhere else. Occasionally there will be people on the sidelines that will attempt to get you to turn your foresight for your career. They will scream from bull horns to get you to accept their philosophy on the best profession for you and they will tell you that you can not achieve your own career goal. A prime example of this happened each time I informed others that I wanted to be a veterinarian and they promptly replied, "You know it's hard to get into veterinary school." Maybe they did this because they could not achieve this feat and they did not want to celebrate man else that had the guts to go for her dream. I did not allow others to turn my foresight and you should not either!
During my high school years my confidence and focus mixed with a strong dose of desire were the perfect blend that propelled me closer to my goal of getting admitted to veterinary school. In my senior year I was admitted to a distinguished bastion of Ivy League excellence, Cornell University, despite hearing about the difficulties of gaining admission to this institution. However, no one told me about the tremendous odds that I needed to overcome in order to graduate from Cornell University - the intense competition to excel academically, the stark reality that my graduating class was less than 5% African American and the pressure to be the first man in my house to graduate from an Ivy League university. Even though I was confronted with all of these issues, I graduated in three and a half years from this university that people had difficulty graduating from in even four years.
There are any points that I would like you to take away from this measure of my story. I truly believe that anyone can achieve their dreams if they bind to these five vital practices.
o Believe that you can attain your goals.
o Surround yourself with certain supporters and refuse to listen to the naysayers.
o Make sacrifices even at times when you may not want to.
o Always remain focused on your goals.
o Envision and of course feel how it will be when you reach your goal.
You are the one in operate of your destiny, no one else is. It is now time for you to move send toward your self defined destiny!
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