I Just Wanna Be Successful-(Preview)

Micah Maria Thornhill
Sophomore
Detroit School of the Arts



What is success to you? Success is defined as: the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors. To me, success is simply achieving your goals. I have so many goals that I want to achieve, and to do that, I believe that I have to have a positive mind. And to keep my mind positive, I have to steer clear of the negative.
But how can I become successful? It may take sacrifices, or a motivational pep talk every once in a while. How can I steer clear of the negative? I believe that that could also take sacrifices. Those sacrifices could be keeping my distance from some of the negative people in my life, no matter how hard that may be. It could even mean celibacy; this is something my best friend and I have been considering. However, we’ve taken this farther than just a thought, and if we do decide to go through with it, we would make it official with rings; purity rings, that is.
In all honestly with ourselves, we decided that we weren’t doing the best we could as far as our grades in school. To improve, we need to stay focused. If this would mean making a vow to ourselves, one another, God, and our families, not to have sex, we are willing to take it. Believe it or not, sex can get you side-tracked as far as staying focused on things, and to make a promise not to get involved with that just yet, is empowering ourselves to aim higher, and to stay focused on the things that really matter. I say that sex can get you side-tracked because I know that I am the type of person that is easily distracted. Despite all these reasons, though, I want to keep my main focus on the things that are going to bring me a productive future. Sex is not something that I take lightly, especially at this stage in my life, and it’s definitely not something I’m going to throw around and tease with for my own benefit.
It’s not a point of being scared, thinking I am or wanting to be better than anyone else, or trying to be different; it’s a point of being empowered to do my best, to steer clear of the negative, to and be successful.

**I say preview at the top because this is just a straight-to-the-point summary of how I feel in depth.