The feeling you’re not good enough, that you can’t make it the United States just for some simple words “illegal Hispanic”. The words that have stopped many Hispanics from reaching their dreams to succeed in life. I know it has stopped me at one point. Asking yourself, are you good enough to succeed or should you go back to the country you don’t see you future.

Finishing high school means a lot to me since my mother never had that opportunity. But wondering where you’re going after high school, will you be able to go to college or have to find a job, go back to Mexico where you see no future. I wondered that most of my freshmen year. Starting high school and after I graduate what would I do. I think that was a really difficult part of my life, doubting myself.

I fact that I didn’t know what to do made think, why should I continue if I’m not going to go anywhere? I stopped trying in school, before this I didn’t like to get a “c” or lower, but then I really didn’t care. My grades went down and my attendance was getting worse as well. I almost gave up and planned to move to Mexico with my father.

After all that doubt I found what I was look for the opportunity that all the Hispanic students were waiting for to move to the next step after high school, going to college. What I found was the opportunity to go to college and later become that successful business woman I dream of so bad. The dream act is a great way for young Hispanics to show that they can go to college and successes in life.

I didn’t lose anyone or have a life threatening problem but I was losing my own confidence. The confidence I had to prove all the ones who doubt that Hispanics can succeed in college and becomes someone in life. That’s not the person that I wanted to be, I wanted to be like me mother. Standing strong when something bad comes her way, that the kind of person that I plan to be from now on. Never again will I be the person that looses confidence and their faith. I plan to be someone in life; I want my name to be remembered even when I’m long gone.