Who Inspired Me To Be The Man
I Am Today…
Many people for many different reasons in fact inspired me
along the way of my life. Surfing and school were a huge influence on my life
and the people I interacted with were a huge inspiration to the things I currently
do in my life.
I was mainly inspired and influenced to do things in my life in a negative way. The only way someone would push me to do something was if I was on the verge of failing. Like school. I used to not care and only do the least amount of work possible to pass. It used to be bad. But nowadays I’m starting to pick myself up with schoolwork, realizing reality and how hard it is. My Dad always told me “Django you better study up or else you’ll fail in school!” or things like “Django I’m getting all these letters about you not doing homework and distracting the class”. I always wouldn’t really give a damn thinking that maybe if I just let the heat cool down everyone would forget about the things that happened. It’s not that simple, and now I know. In my previous school I wasn’t doing good and I always used to look at school as an obstacle in order to have fun with my friends or go on the Internet. I would try to get my homework or schoolwork done fast so I could have more time to talk to my friends or hang out etc. Still at this point none of the words people told me trying to tell me to step it up had any impact on me.
I was mainly inspired and influenced to do things in my life in a negative way. The only way someone would push me to do something was if I was on the verge of failing. Like school. I used to not care and only do the least amount of work possible to pass. It used to be bad. But nowadays I’m starting to pick myself up with schoolwork, realizing reality and how hard it is. My Dad always told me “Django you better study up or else you’ll fail in school!” or things like “Django I’m getting all these letters about you not doing homework and distracting the class”. I always wouldn’t really give a damn thinking that maybe if I just let the heat cool down everyone would forget about the things that happened. It’s not that simple, and now I know. In my previous school I wasn’t doing good and I always used to look at school as an obstacle in order to have fun with my friends or go on the Internet. I would try to get my homework or schoolwork done fast so I could have more time to talk to my friends or hang out etc. Still at this point none of the words people told me trying to tell me to step it up had any impact on me.
My parents and teachers started telling me I was going to be
a failure or not going to excel or exceed in life. That’s when I began to step
it up in schoolwork as well as life. I wanted to prove to them that I could be
somebody, that I could do well in life and had a good job. Only when I was
threatened or challenged did I get any motivation to do something. It was to
prove that someone wrong. I wanted to show them what I was capable of. Nowadays
I still try hard in school and everywhere else to show those people what I am
capable of. In a sense you could say my motivation is revenge.
In the surfing world I grew up with my self. The only one to
push me to surf was my dad I never had friends to go surf with it was always my
dad who made me start surfing. When I began I didn’t like surfing. I was always
scared of waves and I would see surfing as a chore to do with my dad. But I
began to be able to surf a bit better I could stand up on my own and catch
green waves instead of white wash. I then started to surf Padang right. A small
right-hander across the famous Padang. It was always small there but it was
something I could handle at an early age. At that break I met some friends
there who lived in the Bukit area. And from then on I always surfed with them,
training and surfing bigger and better waves but they were much more serious
about than I was. I would mainly surf to hang out with my friends or just play
around in the water. Now as I’m growing up with these guys I’m watching them
pull airs and huge snaps. Some of my friends even have sponsors. What I wanted
to do was be as good as my friends at surfing. I tried to learn airs and do big
tricks but it never came to me but then I began surfing bigger than my friends,
I began to always sit deeper than them and take bigger waves.
With the bigger waves a new world of surfing opened up to
me. Barrels where the apple of my eye in the surf world. At that point I knew
what I could be better at than any of my friends. I would always push myself to
surf bigger waves and face my fears. Now I’m the best in my gang of friends at
riding barrels and getting tubed. My inspiration of being the surfer I am today
was because I was always the underdog of my surfer gang. I was always the one
who could do the least tricks, who was always scared of getting bigger waves
but then I heard my friends talking about me not being able to barely do
anything at surfing. So I wanted to show them my skill. I started surfing by
myself to get better. I started surfing with my dad who surfs bigger waves than
other people. I trained hard. When I came back to my friends I sat the deepest
in the water and caught bigger waves. Now I have my own best feature out of the
group.
That’s what motivates me the most, wanting to prove to
people what I can really do, my true power. I want to prove them my skill when
they look down upon me…
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