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The Pursuit of a Dream
"Don't get upset, everything's going to be okay"...
These words I heard thousand times that day, and they comprehended in my head, when I was sitting at the very last desk of a classroom. Abruptly my thoughts were interrupted by my geography teacher. She was felicitating some of my peers on their brilliant accomplishments. And all I remember is an overwhelming desire to disappear, to vanish from there, to become invisible, to not hear out these words of compassion. And only one question was ringing in my head - why? ...
Happiness...happiness was filling up my soul and my heart. Can you recognize the feeling when it is getting hard to breathe, because pride and felicity overflow your heart? Because the only way to ascertain how eventful your life was - is to think of such moments. And several years after that shameful and inglorious failure, I was standing on a stage, and I beheld that everyone in a hall were standing up and they were applauding only me. And I finally realized that I had overcome all these obstacles, and I had vanquished all these hurdles with the sole purpose - to reach this dream...yeah, that was my dream...
These two scenes are respectively the start and the end of my life period, which I would call "In Pursuit of my Dream".
I incessantly wished people to mark me out and to admire me. Whatever I did - I endeavoured to distinguish myself, I always wanted to be special. My mother constantly told me: "You are the best, and you will be able to outdo any drawbacks as long as you will have a dream and as long as you will be craving for it". So long as I was fatherless, for me my mother was the dearest and the most precious person in the whole world. She put forth so much effort, she worked so diligently to maintain one's family and simultaneously, she has always stayed cheerful and joyous. Since my childhood I've kept a fervent wish to repay her kindness and to be grateful to my mother for everything she did.
Have you watched the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"? Do you remember that scene when Chris Gardner, played by Will Smith, and his son, Christopher, are playing basketball? And then Chris tells his son: "Don't ever let somebody tell you that you can't do something...You got a dream, you gotta protect it." That scene is really unforgettable and these words are extremely purposeful for me, because my mother used to tell me nearly the same thing: "If you want something, go and attain it, despite everything." My mother pinned her hopes on me, and I must not neither disappoint, nor queer her.
I was reading an announcement about the intake of students into the mathematical competitions preparation group, and I suddenly realized that this is my opportunity to distinguish myself, as I had always wanted, and to justify my mother's hopes. Math is my greatest passion, math has always been my favourite occupation and math has always enraptured me, so I had no scruples about the decision to sign up for the group. Furthermore, the appearance of this appointment was not casual, because according to the diploma hanged over the school entrance, I studied in the best school of the country. These competitions were the vital part of school life, and all, more or less, successful participants of these competitions become delight and everyone treats them with admiration. I sincerely desired to be among these elite, to be special, I dreamed of it...
"Don't get upset, everything's going to be o.k.". ..
I heard these words a thousand times that day as I sat at the very last desk of a classroom.
She was congratulating some of my peers on their glorious accomplishments.
I had an overwhelming desire to disappear, to vanish from there, to become invisible, to not hear these words of compassion.
Several years after that shameful and inglorious failure, I was standing on a stage, and I beheld that everyone in a hall were standing up and they were applauding only me.
Whatever I did - I endeavored to distinguish myself, I always wanted to be special.
As I was fatherless, for me my mother was the dearest and the most precious person in the whole world. She put forth so much effort, she worked so diligently to maintain our family and simultaneously, she has always stayed cheerful and joyous.
Have you watched the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness" ?
My mother pinned her hopes on me, and I must not disappoint her.
Math is my greatest passion, has always been my favorite occupation and has always enraptured me, so I had no scruples about the decision to sign up for the group.
The appearance of this appointment was not casual, because according to the diploma hanging over the school entrance, I studied in the best school in the country.
Hope this is helpful, good luck at MIT.
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