Lawrence Garcia - 300 Word Response

What gives me strength to push forward is seeing how hard everyone else around me is working, and so by seeing them work,it makes me want to work harder than them. I don't know why it pushes me to want to work harder than them, it just does. I can do whatever I want if I put my all into it.
One person that I can definitely say is pushing me to become a better person is my uncle Chris. He's always on my ass about college programs and wanting me to go to dual credit courses at Daley College. If it weren't for him pushing me as hard as he is, I wouldn't know what I would want to do in college. It's because of him that I started thinking about college early on in my high school years.
An activity that I enjoy doing is video games, and I know video games don't usually help people with life choices, but I've become a much more patient person because of them. I've also learned from video games that steady work over a long period of time can have a huge effect in the future. In the middle of sophomore year of high school, I started doing all of my homework because I finally realized the effect it had on my overall grade. The homework then was so easy to, I just thought of it as a waste of time. But once I started doing it, I started raising my grade steadily, and finished my sophomore year with all A's and B's.
Another huge influence on me is my mom. My mom can do whatever she wants if she puts her mind to it. My mom taught me the importance of working hard educationally so that I'm not a bum when I get older. When my mom was pregnant with me and my sister, she was still in college, and she knew that she couldn't take off time because she was almost done with it. She worked hard to reach her goal, and I learned a lot from her actions. What I also learned from my mom was making sacrifices. When my mom was pregnant, she had to stay home and not hang out with her friends or go out, and that taught me that I need to work on what's important now so that I can enjoy life later on.
The last person that influenced me was my dad. He taught me the importance of labor work, and how getting a job now can help me getting a job later on when I'm older. My dad also taught me how to treat my family and my elders. I treat everyone I meet with respect because that was the way I grew up, with my dad showing everyone he knew respect. All of these people and their actions formed me into the person I am today, and I wont let their hard work to make me into a good person go to waste by not getting an education and good job.