Eagle Scout Journey Essay

My journey to becoming an Eagle Scout Just to confirm what an Eagle Scout is, it is the highest rank a Boy Scout can obtain. But you must reach the rank of Eagle Scout before you turn 18. Getting to the rank of Eagle Scout is not an easy thing to do; it is a journey for everyone who does, and each Eagle Scout will tell you that it is not easy to reach Eagle Scout. When I was five months away from turning 18, I thought I was faced with an impassible wall called Eagle Scout. There are 6 ranks in Boy Scouts. There is Tenderfoot, Second class, First class, Star rank, Life rank, and Eagle scout. As you can imagine the difficulty of obtaining the next rank gets progressively harder. Getting Life rank is pretty hard already, then when I am five months away from turning 18 I kind of froze up, I had a lot of work to do and I pretty much gave up because I didn’t think I could do it. I had school to worry about like my grades. At this point I thought of quitting boy scouts. I had told my dad about my decision and he had said to talk to the scout master.
They said that normally if a scout wants to quit they don’t usually put an effort into being an active scout, due to the fact that most of the life rank scouts don’t really care about advancing their scouting career at that point in their scouting career. But they stopped me because they wanted me to get Eagle Scout. So they told me how I could get the rank of Eagle Scout. They also told me how I could speed up the process on getting the rank of Eagle Scout and they said that they would help me in any way they