Boy Scouts Personal Statement

Personal Statement

“Hello”, this word is heard everywhere, yet for me it was difficult to say because I was afraid of speaking to others; I feared that they would criticize or mock what I said. When I started high school, I didn’t even know how to verbally connect with peers. However, from a young age my parents instilled in me a desire to constantly seek opportunities to improve. Therefore, realizing that I could not excel in a career if I did not overcome my fear of speaking and learn to communicate better, I decided to face my fears and become a great communicator.

I figured that by joining the Boy Scouts I could face my fear of speaking head on, while also learning to bond with others and improve my social skills. After all, I thought, what better way to learn to connect with others than by joining them camping, hunting, and doing “guy” stuff. Yet, Boy Scouts was more than just fun “guy stuff”, it was meant to build leaders. Therefore the Scoutmaster, seeing my
They doubted that I could be a leader. Since none of them were my friends, or even had trust in me, they began to bully and mistreat me. They knew that they could get away with it because I had no friends to defend me and I was too meek to defend myself, at the time. This resulted in none of my instructions to the group being followed and the team not making any progress on the tasks assigned to us by our instructor. Facing certain failure, I resorted to letting a teammate named Tom, who had led the group in mocking me, take charge of the patrol. I hoped that he could lead us to success in our task, like he led everyone in the group to ignoring my task directions. Unfortunately, he was just a bully and did not have the skill to lead. The result was that our team failed at the task and everyone blamed me because I had been assigned as leader, despite the fact that they ignored me. I learned that leaders can never hand off their