Success: In My Eyes

People often ask the question, how is success determined? Success is determined through any specific individual’s eyes and varies on the person. There is no correct way to go through life, except to be happy in doing whatever you decide to do. Never do something because of someone else; be yourself, have individuality, and always go above and beyond. Success is determined in many ways but to be truly successful, happiness is a must. A successful person is happy doing what they do and confident that their career is right for them.

Occupational Therapy is the career that I chose. My mother is a physical therapist and owns a business that I worked at for numerous summers of my life. Seeing her be the direct result of the happiness on her client’s faces has interested me in her field from the start. My mother has all the money she could ever ask for and is happy doing what she does for a living. Helping people is the greatest joy in life anyone could have because the happiness brought to them will always be remembered as a life changing experience. I will change lives and make a difference in society, which will prove me to be fully successful.

Success involves money as far as the eye can see. As someone who reaches for the stars, I won’t settle for anything less than perfect. I will succeed and have immense amounts of money in life because of my intuition. I’ve grown up in a family that has given me everything I’ve ever asked for since I was born and it made me realize that I would also like to provide my children with that exact opportunity. Anyone who believes they can do something and wants it enough will surely get it in the end with hard work and determination.

Determination is a key factor in becoming a successful person because without perseverance, nothing be given out for free. Six years of college is ahead of me and it is a necessary piece in my upcoming success. Focusing on school is the most important thing to me because I believe that without it, success is impossible. Talking to friends in school is useless; as they will be gone one day and family will be there forever. Family and school are the components of my life and the reason that I am going to be successful.

So what is success? Success is interpreted in various ways by all different people but all has one thing in common: perseverance. As the great Vincent T. Lombardi once said, "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

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My Influence: The Last Song

            With hopes of influencing my children’s book that I am currently writing, I watched the 2010 movie The Last Song. The movie is about a teenage girl named Ronnie Miller who struggles to cope with her parent’s divorce and her recent move into her father’s house. She learns to get along with her father near the end of the movie but it is too late. Her father dies of Cancer just as she begins to get along with him. In the midst of the sad story, Ronnie Miller falls in love with a boy named Will Blakelee who comforts her through her father’s deterioration.

            The Last Song relates to my children’s book immensely. I am writing about a young girl whose mother died of cancer when she was younger. She struggles with bullying and friends, but eventually falls in love with the boy who stands up for her through it all. Both stories are extremely similar and many ideas can be taken from the movie and imported into my story as my own. One particular part of The Last Song I loved was how Ronnie always loved playing the piano and was a fantastic player until her parent’s divorce. She stopped playing when they divorced but started again when she and her father began to get along. I would like to include something like this in my story, in the sense that I want my main character to lose a part of her when her mother dies but regain that part when she regains her strength and confidence back.

            Ronnie Miller is a loving teenager and in one scene in the movie, she is startled by a raccoon going after turtle’s eggs on the beach. She barricades the eggs to save them and stays out all night just to protect them. Eventually they hatch and it is beautiful how they swim into the water. The idea of animals or pets was something that never crossed my mind at all. A pet in my story could be the best friend of my main character and could symbolize a lot. I would like to include some type of pet in my main character’s life to enhance the story a little and make it more unpredictable.

            Many great ideas arose out of watching the movie The Last Song and I’m happy my mother recommended it to me. Although the stories are very similar, there are many variations between them to separate them from each other. I would like to use a few ideas from the movie I watched but transform them into my own thoughts by changing them around a little. The relationship between Ronnie and her father showed me a lot about the love in families and taught me how to write things when implying something else at the same time. I have been greatly influenced by The Last Song and it is one more step towards my completion of my children’s book.