American Optimism

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American Optimism

A man overcoming dire circumstance, including a low income family, working hard at a young age, using every means possible to gain an education, breaking down wall after wall, gaining power and prestige through huge personal sacrifice. The American success story deriving from common people, the average American against all odds becoming the ultimate success story. Guys like presidents, CEO’s, congressman and people of that nature. People that were once among the people now they speak for the people. They rose above to obtain positions of high wealth and extreme power. The “American Underdog.”
I had been taught this my whole life in school, from my parents, from media and everywhere else that had any influence on the way that I thought. If you work hard and continually have high hopes that you will indeed someday be able to become what ever you want. After always being told this I started to think at a very young age that this is probably true. How did all these people that were on television that were in movies and played professional sports get there. They just worked hard kept doing good and eventually got to where they wanted to be. This came in to effect when I realized that my first love of baseball would mean that I would become a major league baseball player and play for the San Francisco Giants. Then I thought, I remember my mom saying something about how much she loved to run track. Hmmm I pondered, why didn’t she become a professional track star? After going outside and playing a game of whiffle ball I had already forgot what I had thought earlier. This might have been my first taste of reality I just failed to realize it.
Up until I had graduated high school I hadn’t really thought about anything else I wanted to do, because I had planned on just being a professional sports star, president, or very famous. I still did well in school though making sure that my grades were good...