This I Believe…

 I believe in going after what I want because everyone deserves more than one chance to get what they want. One time when I was 11 years old, I was with my father on the Southside of Chicago at a shopping mall.  I saw a really pretty outfit that I liked, but it cost a lot of money, because it was name brand and I told him to buy it for me. When I handed him the outfit he told me that I can’t always get what I want because there will lots of things in this world that I would want, but I wouldn’t be able to get them. So I told him “I can get anything that I want because my mommy and daddy have the money!” So I began to pout and carry on until he bought it. One other time in the summer I was 13 years old and I saw a really cute guy that I had my eye on. I told my niece that I can get him to talk to me. She said “I’ll bet you $25 that you can’t get him to talk you, because that boy looks too good!”Just to shut her up I gave him a “friendly” wave and he asked me my name and began to tell me how good I looked. After he walked off she got really mad and said “just because he asked your name doesn’t mean he actually liked you!” I said “but that wasn’t the deal, the deal was that I can get him to talk to me, and next time you say that I can’t get what I want think twice because I get any and everything that I want, oh yeah where’s my $25 ?!” There was also another experience I had in my life where someone thought I couldn’t get what I wanted. My older brother bet me $50 that I couldn’t get anything that I wanted for the whole day. I took him up on that offer because I know that I can; besides that was easy money in my pocket. I asked my mom if I could go out and hang with my friends. She said no not until you do your chores and you homework. I began to cry and get mad, but she still told me no.  I went upstairs to my room and about 5 minutes later she told that I can go ahead, but I need to get my chores done and do my homework when I get back in.         Don’t ever let anyone tell what you can or cannot get because I know that I can get what I want. I’m not saying you should cry for what you because then they’ll think you’re acting childish and then you would not get whatever you are trying to get. If you still don’t get you want try being nice about it then later on try asking again, maybe they’ll give it to you because they saw you took it easily.

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