Personal Narrative: Lemont High School
The tension began to overlay the dark hall as I stood on the stage. Spotlights bored into my composure, illuminating my anxiety to the shadowy faces in the crowd. My partners and I were eagerly waiting for the results: the ultimate critique of our work. For the past six months, we had been feverishly perfecting our business financial plan for the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) state conference. Through countless hours and late nights, we finally arrived on the daunting stage as a finalist.
As we waited, the growing silence began to pave way for doubt: Did we perfect the business plan? Did we mess up the presentation? Did we …
“Here are your winners for the Business Financial Plan Award.”
“In eighth place, Lemont High School.” …show more content…
However, the longer my passion wore the mask, the more the mask began to chisel away. I still wanted to create. I still wanted to help others. I still wanted to innovate. Suddenly, I realized that my mask was more than just a lack of self-confidence. It was my mentality. I was unnecessarily trying to carve a pedestal of prerequisites for my passion. I did not understand that passion only involves dedication. I do not need to be a prodigy to help others. I just have to be motivated and good-willed. I should not try to create a sense of credibility and acceptance for my passion because the existence of my passion is credit enough to pursue it to great lengths. With this mentality, I delved backed into my sketches of adjustable focal length eyeglasses and immersed myself into them. For the first time, I blindly let my passion take the reins. After an entire summer, I had finally developed a precise final product on a CAD software ready for testing and had applied for a provisional patent.
Reflecting back to the FBLA conference, it is evident that failing there allowed me to experience success in my provisional patent. Moreso, without failing, I would not have the renewed and refined mentality that will allow me to pursue my passion of helping others in a college setting and beyond. With this confidence, I will be able to not only better myself, but I will also be able to better the community
As we waited, the growing silence began to pave way for doubt: Did we perfect the business plan? Did we mess up the presentation? Did we …
“Here are your winners for the Business Financial Plan Award.”
“In eighth place, Lemont High School.” …show more content…
However, the longer my passion wore the mask, the more the mask began to chisel away. I still wanted to create. I still wanted to help others. I still wanted to innovate. Suddenly, I realized that my mask was more than just a lack of self-confidence. It was my mentality. I was unnecessarily trying to carve a pedestal of prerequisites for my passion. I did not understand that passion only involves dedication. I do not need to be a prodigy to help others. I just have to be motivated and good-willed. I should not try to create a sense of credibility and acceptance for my passion because the existence of my passion is credit enough to pursue it to great lengths. With this mentality, I delved backed into my sketches of adjustable focal length eyeglasses and immersed myself into them. For the first time, I blindly let my passion take the reins. After an entire summer, I had finally developed a precise final product on a CAD software ready for testing and had applied for a provisional patent.
Reflecting back to the FBLA conference, it is evident that failing there allowed me to experience success in my provisional patent. Moreso, without failing, I would not have the renewed and refined mentality that will allow me to pursue my passion of helping others in a college setting and beyond. With this confidence, I will be able to not only better myself, but I will also be able to better the community