Letter Assignment

Dear Parents,

Conscious of it or not, every day I carry around your expectations of me. Consisting of fulfilling a leadership role, and performing well inside of the classroom, and behaving well outside of the classroom, and abstaining from procrastination, and, finally, performing extracurricular activities to the best of my abilities, specifically never giving up, these expectations are carried with a sense of personal choice. They are also carried with the pressure that if I do not fulfill these expectations, or I fall short of them, disappointment would envelope you. It is a personal choice to carry this “load” because when I fulfill, or even surpass, these expectations I get a sense of self-accomplishment and the knowing that I have done something that you regard as tremendously important. Putting this “load” down, even for a second, in order to take a break from my school work, to allow myself to get mad if I messed up and as a result of getting mad, let my team down, or to ridicule someone for messing up, would change the person I am, a person who tries to always put Winston Churchill’s words “Never, never, never, ever quit” into actions, who provides an example for his younger brother and sister, and who tries to always be kind and courteous.

Sincerely,
Victor Query