Good Copy- Essay based on “October Sky: My very own Greatness In the movie “October Sky” Homer, the main character, is born with the desire to launch rockets into space. He says “I got it in me to be somebody great in this world.” I believe each person born into this world is blessed with a particular talent, or maybe many. Every individual holds the potential of being someone ‘great’ in this world, and holds a gift they can reach in their lives. Unfortunately, some people are not as lucky as Homer is in discovering their true greatness to themselves.
I believe I have found my passion, my talent, and my destiny: my very own greatness. I wish to help to make this world a better place and help those living in it. I love to listen to others. I could talk for the rest of my life and never stop if I could! My friends usually come to me with their problems and ask me for advice, and I enjoy it. I hold much compassion and my heart is growing each day I live. Like Homer, I want to make a change in this world of ours.
I fully support his statement when he says “I am not you! I am my own person!” We are all our own unique individual. I am extremely determined in reaching my goals and will not allow anyone stand in my way of perusing my dreams. I love to love! I would like nothing more in my life than to help others and make our earth a better place of living each day we live. I am a good listener, an excellent speaker, and I can understand almost anything from every side possible. I know every person has it in them to reach complete happiness when they find their passion. Even if you do not find it you still possess one.
Positive influence by a person on my life
For the past eighteen years that I have walked this earth, the most influential person in my life has been my mother. Although the passing of my father deeply affected her, she was still able to persevere and raise me and my siblings to think and act like responsible young men and women. She motivated me to make something more of myself than to sit and become waste on a street corner. My mother ...
Each individual is born with a destiny.
