American Dream Final

Rochell Battle

Professor Warren

ENC1102

5March 13

American Dream

 After listening to Mauricio Garcia presentation, his words highlighted some important areas in my life that I need to work on.  I can remember when I was younger; I did not know what I wanted out of life but after listening to other people and their experiences, my mind went to education. Education is the key to success therefore I had to buckle down in high school and stay on the right road. My vision after high school was to go to college and become an elementary school teacher (www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-vision-statement.htm). While listening to Garcia talk about his life history, I thought about the direction my life is going. He discussed different essential strategies that helped him travel around the world. According to Garcia (2013), when he was younger, he didn’t like to speak in front of a large crowd because of his communication skills. My favorite quote that he gave was “A life without purpose is life without meaning”. When he used that quote, I started to say wow, that really makes sense. I asked myself a question, what is my purpose in life? I had to think and pray to God because I want to know his purpose for my life to be revealed to me. 

 Garcia (2013) was very knowledgeable of current and past history. He discussed history relating to World War 1. He also experienced going to another country and learning about different cultures.  Garcia was very knowledgeable about campus activities and ways to enhance community involvement. He was probing to see what it takes to get people involved on the school campus. I like when he said not to be afraid of making mistakes because everyone make mistakes and they really don’t realize it until they ask people and get the correct understanding. If I really had more time allotted to listen to him, I would have told him to express some more wonderful stories to me because the information that he gave was extremely helpful.

            As life goes on, I have been looking for a purpose and waiting on God to guide me in the right directions. I decided to get myself together and start to look for something I wanted to do in life therefore I put some effort towards my goals seeking. I started to further my career in Child Development and I decided to read up on the different career paths. My heart always went back to children. I always had a passion for child education. One thing that I really enjoyed doing is helping other children with their goals and getting them in a habit staying focus and thinking about their life history.

             By having dreams and purpose, it makes a person focus on their life better. Motivation is an important factor that help keep your dreams alive (Farmer, 1985). People   have different goals in life therefore they need to go for their dreams and make something happen. I have worked on goals for a long time and some of them I followed and some I am still holding on to them to that right moment. Your mind has to be set in order to accomplish your goals in life. I have a lot of dreams that I want to do by the time I get in my old age. Having a list of things to do, it would help me to stay on the right track and keep going. People learn from their mistakes in life.

            Having a speaker to talk about life experiences was exciting to me because you really don’t find somebody like Garcia often. His speech had meaning to it and also can lead people into good things for their future. I believe that if I didn’t hear anything about something like this I would still be in a lost land and still wouldn’t how my life would be. The quotes that were given by him were successful thought and it could at least impact people in the long run. I think that someone should start out and talk to younger children so they can learn at an earlier age.

Overall, our guest speaker pointed out different obstacles that he had in his life. It gave me a flashback and a wake- up call to keep preserving until I reach all of my goals in life. I’m really glad that I took this class. It’s an eye opener.