It Felt Like A Bonfire

I believe almost every student across America has had one of these moments in their schooling careers. It is such a weird feeling. But it is good at the same time. Throughout my years of schooling I just went with the flow of things. I got my work done for the most part and ended every semester with pretty average grades as well as making honor roll. But it wasn’t until high school where I had to really think about my future.

My freshman year of high school was very fast paced and different compared to my recent schooling years. It opened my eyes to many other classes and opportunities I could take to further my knowledge about different subjects. Especially in subjects I am more interested in.

Then came sophomore year and everything was pretty much the same just different classes that weren’t necessarily harder then my Freshman year. But something terrible happened to me my Sophomore year of high school. I found out that I needed a major back surgery because of a prolonged injury that just kept getting worse. Because of this unforgettable back surgery I missed three weeks of school. This is when I felt that fire inside of me. It was hard to describe but the best way is like a lighter getting bigger and bigger inside of me. I just felt like getting my mind off of my health and onto my work. Day in and day out I would spend hours upon hours on my work while staying home and resting. I did this so much that when I came back after those 3 miserable weeks I was ahead in every single class. I put all my effort into school that year and it immensely paid off because I ended up with a great semester of grades.

Another time the fire was lit inside of me like a giant bonfire was just recently. Capstone was a very long and time wrenching process. Thinking back it was about a month ago where I had to put my nose to the grindstone I had an entire job shadow to do as well as my portfolio, product, and presentation to complete all in a month. It may seem like a goof amount of time to complete that stuff but it really wasn’t. I only had a month to complete capstone because a great amount of procrastination. Like everyone always says procrastination kills. First I did my final job shadow two weeks before I had to present my capstone then I spent every little minute I had throughout the days to work on the rest of my work. Every weekend I would spend part of my day working on my senior capstone project as well as hours after every school day. I ended up finishing everything two days before I had to present. I Presented pretty well and passed my senior capstone project. If I never had that fire lit inside of me I probably wouldn’t have finished it or passed it.

In conclusion I believe that everyone has had the fire lit inside of them at one point to get something done. For me there was two huge times that stuck out. Both times I felt that burning bonfire inside of me which created a great amount of motivation to get all my homework done after surgery and to stop procrastinating my senior capstone project. Photo on Foter.com