The way a person believes is usually influenced by various different life factors, which is why no one ever agrees on everything. We all have our own aspect of life. The place where one begins to learn and pick up from is usually home with family. Although there are many things including, friends, books, media; and even race, gender, and ethnicity that contribute to why people believe differently. My own thoughts, I think have been influenced by family of course, but also by my own personal knowledge and experience, which is only gained by living. I believe, the most important thing for a person's life should be to get an education. We often grow up depending on our parents for material necessities. Truth being, they will not always be able to meet our needs, which is why a secondary education is important to all. As a child I always dreamed to be a doctor or firefighter like almost every child.
But I didn’t think that was necessary I had a good life here in El Paso, my dad working hard and trying to give me everything I needed. That’s why I gave education little importance I thought that for my entire life I would be depending on my two parents but I was wrong. I was only a kid with innocent thoughts that we all have when we are young. When I was in high school my junior year, I had a feeling that I was just going to graduate from high school and don’t go to college and try playing professional soccer. I had those thoughts because people involve in those kinds of things were telling me that I had a very good chance of playing professional soccer, where they pay you a bunch of money just doing what I like which is playing soccer. But my dad lost his job and we took a dramatic change from having everything to being limited in various things. That’s ...