We Want The Best For Our Younger Siblings

My sister is two years younger than me, and I do my best to talk to her about what to do and not to do. I want the best for her and don’t want to see her go through what I went through. She sometimes comes to me for advice and other times I just give her some without asking. Most of my advices are school related and how she should do things to achieve her goals. When her first year of high school began, I talked to her about what her plans for the future were and she was not sure. As a freshman, it is likely that none of them know what they want to do with their lives, but you should at least have an interest. I told her that she needed to startthinking about her future

because the earlier she does, the fewer problems she is going to have in the future. Once she knows what to study in college, she can take classes related to her field and not like me, who took classes not necessarily related to my field of study. “The faster you have an idea of what you want to do, 

the faster you can discover is that is for you, by taking classes and seeing how they are,” was something I told her to make her start thinking of what shw would like to do. By doing this, she is going to be able to find out if she likes what she wants to study in college. One of my biggest advice for her is; not to slack off in school because it is going to impact her grades. Even though she is not a senior or junior yet, what she does a sophomore and did as a freshman has an impact on her grades. I want her to be able to be more prepared when it comes to applying for college. I want to see her go to a good college and receive scholarships like they did to me. I don’t want her to have debts because I never gave her advice. As an older sibling, I want the best for her and to accomplish more things than what I did.

Decisions, Decisions

Many years ago, when I was in sixth grade, I had to make a decision: Did I want to stay in a monolingual class or go back to bilingual class. My decision was to go back to a bilingual class because I felt that it was the best option. I felt this way because I was going to keep learning English at a steady pace and not just into a world where I needed to have mastered the English language, which I had not. I was in the class for about 1 to 2 weeks and seeing that I was struggling and that I was not at the same pace as the rest of my classmates had the greatest influence on me to go back to a bilingual class. If I picked to remain in the class, I would have had to try even harder to keep up with everyone else and maybe pushed myself harder to keep up and do better. But what other decisions would I have made after deciding to stay in that class? There is no way to be certain of what was going to happen; Would I have become a F, D, C, B or an A student? Would I be in NJCU? Every decision we take leads to more decisions to be taken. Taking another direction can change you drastically.

In the case of Wes Moore, the other Wes Moore could have had Wes' life if he had picked a different route in his life. The problem is that picking an alternative can lead to the same path as the other option because of many decisions we have to make. One decision can change your lifestyle, but they can also lead you to where you are today. If I had picked to stay in the class, I might had still picked to go to NJCU and be the same person I am now. There is no certainty of what the future holds in hands for us. Once a decision is taken, we can only imagine what could have happened if we had picked the other option.