Jeremy Montoya, an IT architect supervisor at the City of Mesa, is college graduate from not one, not two, but three colleges. “I think I came a long way” said Mr. Montoya, especially considering how and where he was raised. He never had any role models but he did have motivation. Everyone was always telling Jeremy, “You can’t do it” or “You won’t be successful”, but what they didn’t know is that they were only driving him to do better…. The influences that Jeremy had in his childhood and specifically in high school never went to college. Many people would try to discourage him but none of the words ever affected him even the littlest bit because he knew that he had his own plans. Everyone had the littlest expectations for Jeremy but he ended up proving everyone’s expectations wrong. High school was fairly easy for Jeremy. He had good grades, a woman, and time. This was until he went to college. This was a enormous turning point …show more content…
Montoya had a passion for sports, he wasn’t able to participate in them during college because of how overloaded with life his schedule was. Jeremy didn’t have his mind on sports though, instead his mind was “focused on life goals”, such as owning a house and having a prosperous career. The only time Jeremy had any relief was when his roommate, Will, would bring some friends to their house and they would “socialize” until four in the morning. I guess you can say that Mr. Montoya had somewhat of an “active social life”. He liked partying, as most college kids do, and had several tattoos as a result. He firmly said that he “regretted every single one of them”. Throughout college, Jeremy had to find out the hard way that the only person that he was able to depend on was himself. This was a significant learning experience in Mr. Montoya’s life. He came to a realization that “there comes a time that you cannot depend on others” to make it through life. He realized this because his mom was unable to help him financially with
He knew he wanted to be successful in life that's why he left his home, to better
He had a girlfriend his senior year of high school and that's when his life started looking up. His grades started getting better, he started to look at things a different way, and he started to believe in
4 “I will never work for Dr. Milk. I will not go hunting with my father. I will decide for myself what kind of boy I am, what kind of man I will become.” He decided to distance himself from his family and become a person of independence and earn a feeling of
Vivien Thomas was your everyday carpenter, but he ended up saving thousands of lives. In “The Man Who Saves a Thousand Babies” you can find out how. Vivien Thomas had worked as a carpenter since he was 11 and he always wanted to go to college. He even worked during the start of the great depression. The Great Depression caused Thomas to lose his job, and so he lost everything.
Around that same time his father had brain surgery, to help with his epilepsy. His father lost his job because at the time business didn’t have to hire people with disabilities. Because of his father not having a job, Norm had to work hard to pay the mortgage at the age of 21, he couldn 't play sports for this reason. As a result of Norm only
He decided to cut all ties with his parents and disappear into the wilderness, and I believe that he was justified in doing so. It’s not easy cutting ties with people that you love. It feels similar to holding onto a rope that’s tied around a large boulder. Over time your hand will start to hurt, and eventually, holding on will hurt more than letting go. When you’re free of all the weight and burden of the
He was explains how his dad left before he was born and he was raised by just his mom. This caused many problems that his mom had to work through his entire childhood. He had a rough time with this because he didn't have a father figure in his life and his mother had to try to fulfill both of those roles for him. His mom also played a very important role in him playing sports to keep his childhood from being
Then his life was flipped and he had to make some hard decisions, an he became very troubled. He walked around depressed and if suicide wasn't
The Wes Moore’s Success Can a person's successfulness really depend on on the way they were raised and environment they live in? Many argue that a person’s nature, other wise known as their physical surroundings, could affect how successful someone could become in their future. Others argue that it is a person's nurture that determine their successfulness. In “The Other Wes Moore,” Wes Moore, the author, and the other Wes Moore share the same name and similar lives, but only one manifested himself into a successful life. How did only one Wes Moore manage to make his life successful?
Before his father died he was trying to help but supporting him kept getting more difficult as time passed until he became incapable of helping. This can be seen in quotes right after his father died when he says, “I could see that he was breathing--in gasps. I didn’t move.” He knew his father was dying and did not help. After his father dies he realizes that it was not that he didn’t want to help, he was incapable of it.
(“Fisher”page63). He was months behind on payments, but he still didn’t want to give up. So he had to be strong. He had a friend that said he would help him in his hard times, and so he did.
Later Brady realizes just how much this is changing J.T. physically and mentally. “It had been about a month since I’d seen J.T., and he didn’t look so great. He needed a haircut, and his eyes were red-rimmed and seemed kind of sunken” (157). This is the first time in J.T.’s life that he had adult responsibility on the farm and he understands that growing up is not all fun and games. J.T. realized that he will have to work hard achieve his goals in life, and now
Later on in the story, when his mother asks him what is wrong, he lies and tells her he doesn’t feel well. He’s ashamed of what he’s become and does not want her to find out what has happened to him. At the end of the
His story argues that success isn’t important and neither is being admired by others, but that rather, having people who love and care about you is more important. In the story, there is an old man at a cafe who is very depressed and tried to commit suicide the week before. The young waiter knows that the old man has plenty of money so he can’t understand why the old man would be grief-stricken or need to hang out at the café (Hemmingway 9).
Daily challenges move us in the direction of huge success that may currently seem distant. When we are enthusiastic about finishing our goals every single day, we are slowly taking steps that are taking us to our larger idea of success. “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.’’ -Nadia