We mustn't work hard to make others happy - Becoming Michelle Obama
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It's been a while since I posted on this second blog. With my GCSEs, I've been struggling to find the time to sit down and read a chapter of a book. Every time I come home from school, there's always something I need to do and when I go to bed, I feel way too tired to read. However the other day, I did find the time to read a bit more of Becoming Michelle Obama and she has genuinely taught me a lesson that I think is very important to share. As a young girl, Michelle was very studious and conscientious. Being from a black family, in a poorer area of Chicago, she often felt she had to prove people wrong and become successful. Everyday, when she went to high-school, she would pass a tall building where people in suits would walk in and out and she endeavoured to work hard to be at the top floor of that very same building. By the time she finished university, she entered Harvard's most prestigious law school and although she may have got in because others had not, she still felt that pride of having achieved something that no one else thought she could. In the end, she finished law school and got to work in that tall building that she admired so much when she was young. However, she did not have the best working position, she ended up working in the same area she grew up in, and she had to live with her parents. For some, this would have been a dream come true but Michelle still felt that perhaps there was a more proactive route to achieve her dreams, than just law school. This is an important lesson. We often work hard for others so that we can prove them wrong but in the end, we're still following the same benign route of the education system as everyone else. Only when we branch out to see the world, where we can put what we've learnt into practice, do we become better versions of ourselves. When Michelle first met Barack Obama, she saw this. He didn't go to law school straight away. In fact, he went and did some charity work in Chicago, before returning to education. This meant that he understood the world he was living in and this knowledge allowed him to get an important position at the same job Michelle was in, because this knowledge was sought after. Sometimes experiencing a bit of the world and following your own path is the best because it leads you to the place you want to be.
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It's been a while since I posted on this second blog. With my GCSEs, I've been struggling to find the time to sit down and read a chapter of a book. Every time I come home from school, there's always something I need to do and when I go to bed, I feel way too tired to read. However the other day, I did find the time to read a bit more of Becoming Michelle Obama and she has genuinely taught me a lesson that I think is very important to share. As a young girl, Michelle was very studious and conscientious. Being from a black family, in a poorer area of Chicago, she often felt she had to prove people wrong and become successful. Everyday, when she went to high-school, she would pass a tall building where people in suits would walk in and out and she endeavoured to work hard to be at the top floor of that very same building. By the time she finished university, she entered Harvard's most prestigious law school and although she may have got in because others had not, she still felt that pride of having achieved something that no one else thought she could. In the end, she finished law school and got to work in that tall building that she admired so much when she was young. However, she did not have the best working position, she ended up working in the same area she grew up in, and she had to live with her parents. For some, this would have been a dream come true but Michelle still felt that perhaps there was a more proactive route to achieve her dreams, than just law school. This is an important lesson. We often work hard for others so that we can prove them wrong but in the end, we're still following the same benign route of the education system as everyone else. Only when we branch out to see the world, where we can put what we've learnt into practice, do we become better versions of ourselves. When Michelle first met Barack Obama, she saw this. He didn't go to law school straight away. In fact, he went and did some charity work in Chicago, before returning to education. This meant that he understood the world he was living in and this knowledge allowed him to get an important position at the same job Michelle was in, because this knowledge was sought after. Sometimes experiencing a bit of the world and following your own path is the best because it leads you to the place you want to be.
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