How do I see myself?

My life quote is “victory won’t come to me unless I go to it” said by Moore.

This quote encourages me to try my best to achieve my goals no matter under what kinds of hardship. Never stop my steps towards victory and just dream about it, because victory is the goal I set up before; only if I lower it, otherwise it cannot move, therefore the only way to get victory is I go there by myself.

I still remember when I was in elementary school in China, I did really poor at classes, especially at English class. One day, I failed the vocabulary test again, my teacher seemed like could not tolerate me anymore, and decided to call my family. Then after the class, she brought me to her office, informed me that she would make a call tonight and asked me for my home phone number. That was the first time I felt so scared for school stuff. I didn’t want my teacher to tell this to my family, maybe because I really cared about my image in my family’s hearts or something like that. Therefore I started to beg my teacher and promised her that I would definitely get 100 on the next vocabulary test by saying if I failed to do that, she could call my family at that time. My teacher really moved by me and gave me a second chance, and the result turned out that I didn’t let her down. From that time, my life changed.

I started to make higher and higher standards for my school work and wanted to achieve greater and greater victory. Three years ago, I came to New York as a sophomore in High School. I was still motivated and energetic until I realized that my efforts didn’t work so well, and then I became kind of lazy sometimes. For example, I may spend the whole day lying on my bed and watching movies without opening my text book or sleep over 12 hours just because I don’t want to get up. These things which could never happen before are happening now.

Two months ago, I attended Baruch College and became a college student. I figured out that kind of lazy always got me into trouble and made me stay up until 3 or 4am if there were some assignments would due on the next day. At that moment, my life quote jumped out of my mind again, and reminded me what I was supposed to do.

As my life quote says “victory won’t come to me unless I go to it”, I should never stop moving along the way to my victory. Just like the picture shows, if I want to win the competition, I have to run. Although I can rest a few seconds when I feel tired, I can never just stop there because resting is only for me to get ready for running again.