<p>another try ?
Many people believe being average is mediocre, therefore it is nothing to be proud of. Anyone can be average, and everyone can be normal. However, sometimes if we look closely enough average is something to be proud of. I come from a normal middle class suburban home. I am as average as it gets from the white picket fence around my house to the freezer with vanilla ice-cream. I have a mother and a father who provided me with this ordinary life, they never pushed me to be anything great. They truly believed mediocrity was okay, and I never understood why. Talking about my parents being immigrants from Taiwan is the typical story, as well as talking about their struggles. It is true when they first came to this country they had very little, and they both worked hard to buy a home and be a part of a middle class community. However, if I did not grow up from this average family I do not think I would have realized the importance or have the desire to go to a University.
I aspire to be more than average, because I grew up in average but my heart always wanted more. I was never ashamed of who I was or where I came from. Just because I did not have all the things I’ve ever wanted did not make me resent being average. Instead it gave me a purpose, it was my motivation to create a better future for myself. Greatness does not happen over night it is a work in progress, so I set out to make my dreams come true. I knew that as long as I lived a stable life my family would be proud because that is more than what they had growing up. I wanted to achieve greatness, starting with gaining independence. I never lost sight of the family I came from however I learned not to be as co-dependent. I took trips from coast to coast to see different life styles and different mind sets. I learned that growing up in California in general gave me a more laid back sense than someone born in the heart of New York. I traveled to different countries in Europe like France, Greece, England, and Italy to become more cultured. I learned there is so much more in this world than what we see on a daily basis.
I want to be apart of that world, I want to know more and grow more. Sometimes I would feel as though I wanted to be a thousand places at once. The only place in the entire world that could have that same feeling would be at a University. There are people from average families from different parts of the world. They bring their culture, and life style, they bring more. When all the different people in the world are placed together they make something extraordinary. Without having grown up in such an average family I would never have felt the desire to go out there, and see that there is more to life.</p>