My College Goals

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Being the first person in my family to graduate college is an aspiration I have to be a leader. Graduating college is one of the most important goals in my life for the next couple years. No one in my family has graduated and earned a degree in college, which pushes me to want to go and finish college even more. My mother had attended college ten years after having me close before she graduated high school. Being a strong role model to push and motivate my younger siblings and relatives to go to college and contrive their dreams with a college degree is something I want to achieve. Helping my younger family members understand that attending college to have backup support would be better down the road no matter what they are planning for a …show more content…
Since I was four years old I’ve played soccer every single day up until my sophomore year of high school. I had loved playing because soccer was what had kept me active and on task with school, but also it was the one way my father and I bonded. This particular door appearing in front of me would be the door where my first injury never happened. One of the biggest goals in my life in high school was to further my education in college and play soccer. My first serious injury was in my sophomore year, a month before the season. I extended my leg too far and tore my hip flexor, I had internal bleeding, bruising, and swelling. While taking caution when playing again, I was putting most of the pressure on my left hip, doing so, I had injured my other hip. Realizing soon after taking time off soccer, I wouldn’t ever be able to play the same. When it came close to the season that year I played our first season game and the tournament that same weekend. We started the third game of the day, and I couldn’t finish. Ever since that game, I haven’t played. Although I was devastated I couldn’t continue to play, I learned plenty of things quitting. I’ve gone by the saying, “Everything happens for a reason” all my life. I believe God was telling me I wasn’t focused enough on my other priorities. If I could open a door up and had never injured my hips, I would open it within an