A boy immigrates to the US unable to walk and requiring extensive medical treatment and physical therapy. He faces bullying in school but excels academically, receiving many awards. After graduating high school and college, he gets a corporate job but is later laid off. Despite obstacles, he sees himself as a success for working hard and continues to pursue accounting, believing he can still succeed.
3. Success is a quality that most of us desire, yet do we
really know what success is? The concept is so broad.
Imagine coming to a new country called the United States
as a little boy and not even being able to walk on your feet
when you are young.
Then you require lots of medical attention and spend lots
of time in a hospital setting.
The very thought of being strapped to an operating table
terrifies you. It scares you so much that you start to cry
and you wonder when this nightmare is going to be over.
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After each surgery especially if there are several of them,
you have to spend at least a good 8 weeks just to recover.
After all of the required medical attention, you most
probably need physical therapy to improve the flexibility
and coordination in your muscles and joints.
Upon starting school as a child, you may become picked
on and bullied by other kids. You may have trouble
relating to others on a social level. But in spite of these
challenges, you are very gifted and smart academically.
All throughout your school career, you become a success
and receive many awards for your good grades. You
become well-liked by your teachers and many of your
classmates.
Even a loss in the student body elections for student
secretary in middle school during the 7th grade does not
deter you from wanting to succeed in school.
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4. Upon graduating from high school, your academic
prowess continues and you end up getting an
undergraduate degree.
You are then able to prove that you can hold a job
successfully. Your employer sees your dedication and
hard work and he or she also notices your value to the
company.
And even after you are laid off from your job, you can still
see yourself as a success because you worked so hard
to get to where you are today in spite of so many
challenges and obstacles.
Upon being laid off from your corporate job, you begin to
explore other possibilities of jobs that you could do.
Somehow, you end up studying Accounting, still feeling
and believing that you are a success in your life.
The story that was just told is a short version of the story
of this writer and how he became a success.
This narrative account shows what real success really is
even if you lose your job and have been affected by a
down economy.
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