Throughout my high school career, my goal was to make a change, to start being a better person, to be a hero. During my junior year, I stumbled upon an obstacle that changed my life. I got pregnant my junior year and I thought I was going to fail. When my senior year came around, on September 16, 2011, I devoted my life to my son, Lyrix. I had the opportunity to change the statistics of a teenage mother, to become a better and independent person, and I, now, am fighting to be my son’s hero. I want to build a foundation where my son can grow up happy and healthy and not have to suffer because of one wrong decision. I plan on continuing my education by attending college and fulfilling my life with a set career as a business owner. My personal goal is to make sure my son can grow up to be a happy child where he can get everything he needs.
Being a teenage mother, everyone looked down upon me. They thought I was a failure and they predicted that I was going to drop out of high school. I’m on my senior year preparing myself for college. I took their negativity and used it as my motivation to make it as far as I did and further. My goal is to successfully attend and graduate college as an educated business woman. College will provide me the chance to extend my education and learn all the different trades in business. Going to school for business can open up a lot more job opportunities and can offer positions of higher paying. Some obstacles I have faced in the past year was managing my time well. With school work, college classes, and caring for my son, my life was a mess. To fix this, I used time during my T.A. classes and my after school tutoring to do my work so that when I go home, I have more time for my son.
When I graduate college, I want to become a successful business woman. I love the feeling of independence and I feel I have what it takes to be a leader and manage my own business. I was inspired to become a business woman because my dad owns his own business and he does very well. People rely on him and look up to him, and I want that same feeling. Going into the world of business wasn’t always my first choice. I actually wanted to be a veterinarian. I still have a passion for animals but as I got older, my perspectives changed and I decided to go into a profession where I can have multiple job openings. To have more options means that I have a better chance of getting a good job to provide for my son.
Being a mother is hard, especially as a teenager. This was never in my plans, but it happened and I am taking full responsibility for my own actions. I made my son and myself a promise. I promised that I will not let my bad decision affect me or the life of my son. My personal goal is assure security and protection for my son where he can grow up and do the things he wants to do without having to go through the struggles I went through. To be a hero through my son’s eyes would be the best goal I could accomplish in any mother’s life. When I can wear my cape in public with my son proud of me that will be the day I achieve my goal.
Everyone has goals. Everyone has plans. It is not a published book, but a rough draft of your life and you can edit it as many times as you want until you feel the final draft is ready to print. My life has just begun, parts of my life have started early, but I’m okay with that. It made me the person I am today and gave me the strength and courage to go beyond the statistics of the average teenage mother.