A Celebration of Success Take a moment to look deep into your heart. What are your desires in life? Who do you want to be? Once you find the answers to these questions, let them be the guiding lights throughout your life story. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Our dreams are the foundation, the building blocks, of a story that is yet to be written. Though they may seem premature or maybe even a little crazy, our dreams become the focal point of our story. Throughout the narrative, we are sure to encounter conflicts and speed bumps that threaten our dream. But this cannot keep us from writing our story. No, we must take up our pen and keep on writing word upon word upon word. We keep on writing until our story has become our success story.
Success stories can start anywhere at anytime. A child experiencing the Olympics for the first time realizes their story starts on the tennis court, or a college student attending a play and realizes their narrative starts on the stage. Though we must all discover the first chapter of our story, it is important to remember that the power to write our own narrative lies within each of us. Every success story takes grit and persistence to reach its conclusion. There is always going to be someone who will want to burn the pages of our story. We can either succumb to our villain or we can stand up and write them out of our story. We can write our way to success if and only
Each person’s dream serves an important psychological function hope, motivation, direction for the character; however, the dreams also divide the characters, creating conflict among them. Since the 1950s much change has occurred and it has been satisfactory change. The change has been tremendous and it has been enough. The rights that have been
Dreamer All people in this world have a dream. Some dreams are more realistic than others. Some people's dreams drive them to the lows of the lows, yet a dream is not one to be given up on. In the book Of Mice and Men Lennie and George have a dream of one day owning their own farm. Through the use of Foreshadowing, Imagery, and Tension John Steinbeck reveals the theme that one's dreams will direct your actions, mindset, and attitude.
A person shouldn’t measure their success based on what they own, but based on their accomplishments. Those who never truly succeed, take pride in what they own, rather than what they’ve done. Emily Dickinson wrote in Success is Counted Sweetest, “Success is counted sweetest, by those who never succeed.” In this poem Dickinson describes what success really is, and those why are proud of their success, never truly achieved it. Today, success doesn’t matter at all.
Dreaming is specific to one person which is why someone people chase after the “American dream" and some do not. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the ideals behind the American dream to demonstrate the
I am rewarded with the fact that I earned that success because of my hard work. In my future, I may cure cancer, raise a family, or run a business. In the end, I know that I will have a significant effect on the people around
To Catch a Dream," which explores the nature of dreams and the value of following one's passions in life. This chapter is speaking to people who want to start writing and also extends to people who want to catch a dream. He pinpoints this audience through anecdotes, counterclaims, and assumptions. Throughout this chapter, Mark Edmundson uses a lot of anecdotes relating to his personal life.
Each and everyone has our own idea of how success looks like. But for me, success is something that you’ve worked so hard to get to that you now have pride to have or be. But success isn’t so easy to reach. There's going to be challenges and times where one thinks they won't succeed. Its when you’ve flourished to the point where you’re happy with the placement of your life.
For example, if someone had the desire to write a book, they would write copious amounts of drafts and edit all their work. Also, it might take several times to figure out everything. Dreams are not a one-step process. They take time, but there will be time. In a minute there is time for a hundred visions and revisions.
Dreams can be very persuasive and uplifting as well as discouraging, in the right moments. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck introduces the readers to a story of dreams and how those dreams can affect you and others. Steinbeck explains through his novel how dreams can give reasons for people to succeed in life, how they can draw others in and encourage others or how dreams can stray away from reality and how the dreamer can get lost in their own fantasies and never accomplish their dreams at all. Dreams have the power to change lives by giving hope.
To dream is to desire an achievement which seems unobtainable. Most everyone has trouble convincing themselves that their dreams are within reach. Jim Carrey once said, “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.” This is a result of allowing dreams to remain dreams and, instead, opting to take a more reliable path. In doing so, a sense of emptiness that never completely dies out is often developed.
Dreaming is a huge part of people’s lives. Dreams happen to everybody and are different to everybody. They tell a lot about a person’s life. Dreams are viewed differently by so many people. People have opinions on what makes dreams happen, what dreams are, and what they mean.
Everyone has dreams, but the thing is most people never accomplish them. Some people put off their dreams to the side because something more important than their dreams comes forth. They believe that is better to put their dreams to the side or give up on them and allow their dreams to fade in their minds. In “What happens to a dream deferred?” by Langston Hughes, the poet uses the title, tone, diction, and selection of detail, to express how people are affected by deferred dreams.
Everyone has a dream. Although these dreams aren’t the ones you have while sleeping, they are the ones that drive you, challenge you and keep you fighting for the reality that they will become true. They are the dreams that you will work hard for. Martin Luther King Jr. even died while fighting for his dream to become a reality. They are the ones you hope will one day become a reality.
Remember that happiness means a lot and plays a big role in how I would define success. So remember in the beginning how I said “my English teacher said How do you define success”. Well I said all the things how I define success in my own words. The things I said was good grades and having a good amount of money, achieving your goal, and happiness.
A sense of accomplishment is invaluable to a person. Not only does a sense of accomplishment build confidence and faith in oneself, but it also allows one to reflect on how wonderful the journey to the accomplishment was, and how every little struggle and triumph was worth it. In the middle of summer, where time seems endless and the stress of the previous school year has been shed by students, I never expected to find out that I scored a five on both of the advanced placement exams I took. Nor did I have one-hundred percent confidence the goals we set as section leaders of the marching band would actually be met. Yet to my surprise, I had the good fortune of accomplishing challenging things in both aspects of my life.