Some Cheesy Personal Stuff

My Career & Major exploration teacher told us to write a paper on someone that has inspired us by the way they lived their life…

Here is what I wrote…

Reina Meza

CLSS 2100 Career & Major Exploration

June 25, 2012

Most people say that their parents or siblings have inspired them or some say a rock star or an astronaut, someone that has done something great with their life. However I have never seemed to spark great inspiration from those kinds of people. It makes me feel worthless knowing someone else was on the moon and I am just here on my laptop. My parents were never a good influence but they taught me what not to do and I that is a good way to lean something. My biggest inspiration is someone I do not know, I don’t know his name or what he looked like, all I know is his story. This man loved a woman, however he was too shy to talk to her, and he would sit on this park bench and watch her every time she went on her morning walk. He never had the courage to talk to her. The only communication he had with this woman was she would see him every day and smile at him, and he would smile back. This went on for years, the woman had a family and kids, and the man simply never loved anyone else. He was not a stalker, he just wanted to see her smile everyday and that made him happy. This went on until the man was old and one day the woman never came back to the park, the man still sat at that same bench and that is the end. It is not a very amazing story. I don’t know what happened to the man and I don’t know what happened to the woman. However the way the man was in love with someone he had never met and was sitting on the bench waiting for someone he did not know. All he wanted was for her to smile at him and that was enough to make him happy. He did not want to marry her, nor have kids. All he wanted was a simple smile. Knowing how people want everything, how they want to have the newest ipod or the most fashionable cloths to be happy. This guy just wanted a smile, and that shocks me so much. It has made me realize that I don’t want materials to make me happy. I want something simple to make me happy just like that man. That is why I don’t ask for too much, I am more of a nicer person knowing that maybe my smile has made someone happy and in return I can be happy too.