I believe essay

Opportunities built our lives

“When an opportunity knocks, open the door”- Anonymous. I strongly believe that a special opportunity only comes once. Opportunities are doors to new and better things, and I decided that I will take every single one of those. I also believe that opportunities build people’s lives and that those define who you are going to be.

            Since I remember, my parents have always told me that, if an opportunity is in front of me I should take it because it would not come back. I grew up thinking about it, and I think that if I do not use an opportunity I will lose a big chance to achieve something. Years ago, when I was in middle school, I had the big opportunity to represent my school on an important competition. At first I felt like it was made especially for me, but when the time was getting closer I get nervous and I decided that I did not wanted to do it. I do not really know why I decided not to take such a big chance but I did. Another student at my school took the opportunity, and he actually almost won, so I realize the mistake that I made and that the person that won could have been me. I think that if I had taken that opportunity my life could have had a slightly change, I do not how but I am sure that something would have been different.

            A single opportunity opens more and more chances.  Now I’m a high school student, and I have the great chance to go to a college for an English Language Intensive program. Since my ESL teachers told me about it and that I could be the one to go, I said to myself that I could not let this awesome opportunity go away. I knew that I had to take it and I did. Now I am sure that I made the right decision because this opportunity can bring me a lot more of chances for my future education. This demonstrates my belief that opportunities build our lives; they decide what we are and what we are going to be.

           

            Opportunities are gifts for our lives, I strongly believe that an opportunity is unique and it will not come back if we o not use it. I do not know when an opportunity will be presented to me but what I know is that I will take it because opportunities are our past, present and future.