Proverb Personal Experience Long Time

Proverb personal experience long time ago, when I was merely a child, I came across a saying, which had a great impact on my then easily impressionable mind: "Some succeed because they are destined to, most succeed because they are determined to." Later on, I discovered that the saying was actually a quote from the French author, Anatole France. At that point in my life, I had not the necessary experience to realize the very essence of the quote. Nevertheless, it was engraved deep within my mind since that frail age. Little did I know then that this quote was to symbolize the story of my life, marked by bold and severe struggle to achieve my goals and proudly rise above the crowd.

By employing my so-far gained experience and wisdom, I can now evaluate the pure significance of this quote and directly link it to my successes. It may prove true that great happiness and success will one fine day be bestowed upon some of us, through no effort of our own. However, most people will ascent the stairs of life with great difficulty and fight for their desires to be materialized. From my point-of-view, the saying implies the fact that fortune is particularly a relative and quite elusive notion, as humans cannot base their decisions on it. Luck cannot be defined or explained in humane terms. Thus, the only thing we can count upon in our stroll through life is our inner strength, the fire that keeps us walking, enthused by our ambition and our brilliant dreams. In addition to this, the more power one invests in trying to fulfill one's wishes, the greater the satisfactions will be. Therefore, one must not only pursue his great desire, but must also surpass one's lack of confidence, one's personal dramas or the negative opinion of other people, so as to reach the end of the road triumphantly. I, for one, believe that this is the key to any success - to provide positive energy to your struggle, in spite of the negative fluxes of energy received from the outside.

In fact, I have reached this conclusion after I was faced with a crucial challenge and I managed to win the race with life. It was not until my junior year of high school that I was diagnosed with a learning disability, which made it clear why I had found it difficult to pursue my studies, in comparison with other colleagues, who managed to do it effortlessly. It was no mystery to me that I was different from the others, as I was usually occupied with my homework about three or four hours per night and had to work ardently to cover my subjects, but I kept the secret to myself. When finally presented with the diagnose, I realized that it was only through my determination and great efforts that I surmounted my condition and managed to step in line along with my colleagues, all through high school. Moreover, I then realized that my grand quality was the ambition with which I proved that I was worthy as any other student.