The Things Joshua Carries

   
     I always carry around my phone. It is the one item I make sure I have next to me at all time because if I don't it get paranoid and think of the most horrific things that could have happened to it. I cherish my phone and it even though sometimes their is nothing to look at on it, I just stare  at it for minutes just because I have a phone as special as mine. People always hate on you if you don''t have a I-phone but I believe that my Android is far greater than and faulty outdated I-phone that Apple Inc. will ever produce.

     Even though it seems normal to share your dreams with other people, I never share my dream of becoming a successful person with anyone. I have a lot of thing in mind that I want to do when I grow older and become an adult such as becoming a intelligent engineering geologist graduating from the University of Houston, and my ultimate dream of becoming a pro basketball player in the NBA, but all I know is that whatever I do I will make sure that I excel at it as much as I can because you should always but 100% in whatever you do.

     One person that many people haven't heard a lot about that was in the NBA for only a couple of years is my most valued role model. His name is Abdul Mahmoud Rauf but when he moved to the U.S. his American name became known as Chris Jackson. The reason I value him so much is because he reached the height of his dream that he trained for ever since he was 8 years old. When he was 8, he grew up in poverty with several brothers and sisters and his mother only had an 8th grade education so his family barely made it by enough to support themselves Chris Jackson figured out what he wanted at the age of 8 and didn't know any better because he made a vow to do whatever he could to support his family so he trained for basketball as much as he could. He would leave his house at 5:00 in the morning right after his mother would leave for work and would go outside to train regardless of what the weather was like. In middle school in the 7th grade he played for the 10th grade as the starting point guard and one of the best in the country and in college he averaged roughly 40 points a gain at LSU and eventually got drafted into the NBA at the height of 5'11. He was one of the NBA's most known player until he got kicked out of the NBA for his beliefs of practicing Islam and for his act of not standing for the National Anthem when it was played before his games. He stated that the U.S. flag was a symbol of oppression and tyranny against his country  Iraq but also had better things to say about the U.S. but the media only emphasized the negative things he said about the U.S. which led to his extermination from the U.S. To me he is a legend and a great role model because to me he shows that you can do anything you want as long as you work hard and put your mind to it.

     Whenever I think of myself, I think of determination, intelligence, and ambitious. I try to use these three things the help sum of an idea of the kind of person on them and hope that it will influence them to carry the same things along with them throughout their life also. Growing up with only a mother encourages me to do the right thing and become successful because of the way i was raised by her. She would want success for me just as I do for myself

   
     A couple of memories that I carry with me are all of high importance. The memory of my grandma dying always comes to me because she was a great woman and the way she didn't let anything or anyone get in the way of her beliefs is always extraordinary to me  and her life on this earth was influential to everyone to met and i will mourn the presence of her death always. Also the memory of my dad leaving me as soon as I was born is a sad memory but it also has taught me to support myself and help develop me more into a man.