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//How my optimism will help me press on to greater achievements in the future.//
Like almost every other student out there, I don't know what I'm going to do with my life. I'm confused and I admit that. I don't know what I 'want to grow up to be.' I don't know what college I'll graduate from, whether I get my associates or whether I'll get my PhD. I don't even don't know what high school I'm going to yet; but that's okay. I'm not sure if that's what optimism is, but I think so. It's okay to not have your life figured out. It's also okay to not be okay. We're only human. Being an optimist isn't all about just being happy and cheery; it's about finding hope for the future.

Right now it's a stressful time for anyone looking for a new high school. You sometimes have to take an entrance exam, make sure you go to a good school, and you may or may not be separated from friends. I don't live in the county I'm supposed to be in in order to get into the high school I'm attending. Also, most of my friends are going to different high schools than I am. With optimism I'm able to look forward to having a good high school experience. I just have to think past the obstacle I'm facing now, plan for the future, and have hope for a great outcome. Using this same example of me going into high school, I can use it in four years for when I go to college. My optimism can help me by giving me hope and making sure I'm calm. With the optimism that I've developed over the years I can use it in the future to press on to greater things.

Graduating high school, getting my associates degree, getting my masters and hopefully one day my PhD. Sounds like the dream that almost everyone wants to achieve. A life filled with success couldn't possibly get any better. How can someone achieve those things? They use optimism. That's what I hope will happen to me in the future. By pressing on with my optimism when I think I'm failing, when I think that I can't do anything, I want to use optimism. I'm almost about to graduate from middle school, but that's only the beginning of what I want to achieve. I know that I'm not much of an optimist, but when I try hard enough, I remember all the times that optimism has helped me in my life. I can remember when optimism helped me get highest honors all throughout elementary school and when optimism also helped me get through eighth grade. Without optimism, I don't know where I'd be.

Optimism is about overcoming things; it's about hope and about how far you will push yourself. I want to push myself so that one day I can achieve my dreams. I'd say that the four main components of optimism are hope for the future, pushing yourself with motivation, following your dreams, and overcoming obstacles. I want to use my optimism in the future to achieve my dreams and be a better person. By using my optimism to become a better person, I can not only achieve success in my academic career, but also my work career. Whatever I decide to do in the future can be helped with optimism. While I'm studying to become what I plan to be in the future, and while I'm facing tough times in my career I will use my optimism to help me pursue greater and better things. Optimism will help not only me achieve success in life, but it can also help others around me. By being a generally optimistic person, I can affect those who are around me. I can help those who are facing tough times in their life by helping them and making them build build up their own hope. Optimism not only affects your day-to-day life, it affects you all throughout your life.

In conclusion, I wish to spread what I've learned about optimism from my years of experience of developing and building my own optimism with those who are around me. I want to use this for when I'm going to college, when I'm building up my career and when I'm an adult with my own life. I want to use my optimism when I'm chasing my dreams and through tough times. My optimism is there for me to become the adult that I want to be. My optimism will help me press on to greater achievements in the future by helping me believe in myself. If I can't even believe in myself, how will I become the person that I want to be? This is why I think that optimism is important in our lives. Without it, where would we be in life? Where would we go if we don't have hope for our futures. Optimism is there for us to follow our dreams. I hope that one day I can be the person that I want to be by using my optimism.