I am grateful for....

The past year has been extremely life changing for everyone, myself included. I have lost a number of jobs and was homeless at one point due to different factors. In august, I started my first year of college. The decision to start college has been learning lesson after learning lesson, literally and figuratively. I learn in the classroom, well, zoom meeting, and I also learn about myself outside of the classroom. College has taught me what my limits are and what I can push myself to do when I have determination and drive.

And in all truth, it was completely worth it. I feel that I have gained knowledge that has helped me for the better. I understand as well, college is not for everyone, I believed it wasn’t for me as well, but after 2 years of feeling unaccomplished and unmotivated, it was a step in the perfect direction for myself. Mostly because I felt like my life had little direction and that I was missing a part of myself that had been missing for a long time. I felt extremely disconnected from the world at times because I was not participating in the world and that created my feelings of loneliness and unaccomplishment until I started school and the people in my life who didn’t take my seriously, they were starting to respect me more. My whole 20 years of living and it seemed that no one had taught me the importance of drive and ambition to complete your goals you have set for yourself. And that it why I felt that no one was taking me seriously, because I was not taking my own life seriously. I have realized tho that it is no ones job but my own to pick myself up and to make sure that I am surviving in the best way possible because everyone is also just trying to survive the best way possible.

I am extremely grateful for the knowledge I have gained in the past 2 years that has pushed me to where I am today. I am very grateful for my college professors who have been encouraging me through this big next step to the future that I plan to work very hard for. Even through the challenges that come with online learning, my teachers have remained patient and extremely understanding about due dates and any confusion that any student or myself has, and that is them doing their best and that is all anyone could ask for right now I believe.

Before starting college, I believed it would be much harder, and though online classes do propose its own difficulties, I am now only grateful that I have been blessed with a great English Professor who has helped me so much in my writing development. I love writing, so the fact that I have been blessed with a great teacher who I feel connected to and who gives me healthy feedback makes me grateful because starting college was stressful and having an honest and supportive English teacher has helped me so much to express myself and to feel accomplished. I am extremely grateful that I have been blessed with teachers who want to see me progress and who help me to become a better version of myself.