Scholarship / 'I asked my mother about my father' - experience that affected you -SCSU scholarship [3]

Essay must be submitted with a guideline of approximately 300 words.

Prompt: Tell us of an experience that significantly affected who you are as a person or student.

Growing up as an only child, with a single parent is a significantly life changing experience for myself and many other people in the United States. However, not having a father present because of an incarceration has given me ambition to shape myself into a person that would make my family proud. My dad was incarcerated right after my parents separated when I was two years old. The truth was kept from me as until I was nine years old, when finally got the courage to ask my mother about my father. Knowing the day would come; she sat me down to tell me the truth of their marriage. From that point on, I made a promise to myself, to be a better person than my father was. I started to build up my efforts in my activities such as swimming, orchestra, and more importantly my academics. I wanted to continue moving forward with my live as if nothing happened and to kept an attitude that his mistakes would never hold me back. I had accomplished many things without him, and still had my eyes set on many more goals to achieve. When I think about him now, I feel sorry for him. I would like for him to know that I am aware of his mistakes. That I have learned from them, motivating me to achieve everything I set out to do. I want him to know that I constantly push myself passed my limits, to make my family proud and hopefully him too.