she inspired me
... To them I am a leader, she says, in a way I am their mother, so care for them as if they are your own. She influences me not to do wrong and not to mess up because I am an example to my younger sister. She has shown me that rather than being in foster care, and probably torn away from my little ones, that we were blessed to be able to stay with her and my aunts. That they are blessed to be able to still be alive to have taken us in. She influences me to be strong like she is, to be smart and wise like she is, to be thankful and grateful like she is, and to be a winner in life, a true champion, like that of which she became. That influence, today is the reason why I am writing this college essay, to be the second one in our family to go to college after my cousin the first, a junior at St. Johns University in New York. That influence is the reason why I win in life, in sports, and in school. That influence is the reson why I am what I am, and I am a strong black woman who achieves, and believes, that when I am grown this world will not run me, rather I will run it. That no one will stand in my way of getting what I truely want and need, to succeed. Even if it's a simple divison one athletic title or Class President, a professional National Volleyball U.S. Olympic Champion, or a fine journalist and part time successful realiter. No matter the goal, no matter what it is that I know I want, that I know I struggled so hard for the most vital years of my childhood for, I will achieve, and succeed, this I believe. The influenced from her to me, tells me that I will be all that I can be, that I will shine for the whole world and my sisters to see, that will be the American dream, and that everyone will want to be on my undefeated team. That influence today, has started me on my way, to become one of the children to ...