When
family and friends told me that education is key to success I believed them but
I just did not take education seriously. I often find myself looking in the
past and asking why I could not have the mindset I have now back then. I regret
not taking education serious because it finally caught up to me. I knew that I
was going to pay for it sooner or later, just didn’t know when. Education just
wasn’t important to me.
I
believe that education is important. Education is what we need to get far in
life. In today’s world if you do not have a certain level of education most
jobs will not hire you. I feel that without education the world would not be a good
place. A lot of things would be unknown.
When
you are focused on learning you eventually start to like it and want to know
more and more. It makes you ask questions. Questions that the government does
not want you to ask. It makes you eager to go to school the next day. Most
people wait until it’s too late wishing they had done something about it.
When I
was in middle school I really did not care whether I failed a class or not. In
fact, when it was to graduate from the 8th to the 9th
grade I did not walk the stage. I still did not care. I continued to mess up. I
didn’t realize what I was getting myself into.
In 9th
grade I knew that it was time to take education seriously. I could not find a
way to focus on school. I did not do any homework, instead id go out with
friends knowing I had homework to do. It wasn’t long before I started skipping
class. My mom was getting calls from the school every other day.
When I
entered my junior year for some reason all of those things people were telling
me about education started to get o my head. I realized how important school
was. Realizing what education could do for me, I paid attention in class. I
knew that if I didn’t clean my act up it was soon going to be too late. I
refused to be one of those people who wish they took action when it was too
late. Surprisingly, I did my homework, studied for tests every time was told,
and the most important part I understood the importance of education.
