Donna Beegle: A Short Story

Every day there is potential thrown away, and your goals don’t care what day of the week it is. Sure there are obstacles along the way, but you have to push through them to get where you want to be in your life. Donna Beegle and I along with the women in Sohn’s story have faced a similar obstacle. This obstacle was the lack of confidence. As you read on you will soon find out the similarity in our obstacle.
Crossing the border into college can be troubling for most people because of the obstacles they might be facing. I have faced an obstacle, I had a lack of confidence. Before I was getting ready to enroll, I knew that I needed to get a higher education if I wanted to become successful in the career path I had chosen. I had thought to myself over and over about not being smart enough. All the thoughts going through my head lead me to believe I would not amount to anything or just simply fail. However, deep down I knew I wanted success in life more than anything. In my mind, it was a psychological battle of constantly thinking negatively or positively. At the end of the day, I told myself that I would be willing to do whatever it took to reach my goals, no matter what. All in all,
After she had dropped out of school she soon got married to her now ex-husband Jerry. Sooner or later along the road, she had two kids to raise while attending Mount Hood Community College through a program called Women In Transition (WIT). Beegle's lack of confidence came from this background, while in school she was afraid of being made fun of because of the way she spoke. To Beegle, it was just the way she had learned to speak while growing up in poverty. She said after she entered the community college to work on a two-year degree, “ I was absolutely terrified. I could not write a complete sentence”(139). In a way, her lack of knowledge led to her lack of confidence in