Sometimes an event that seems to be going badly turns out well after all. Discuss such an event in your life, using specific details to support your response.

Each of us has good or bad memories, experiences that we will never forget because they are special. From my experience, I discovered that when I had a wish and I tried my best, I worked very hard to see my wish coming true, these moments had always remained deeply in my mind and soul. They had a great impact on my feelings, even a more significant impact than the other events had on me, for example the ones when I wanted something but that “something” didn’t ask too much from me, it just happened to me.

When I was 18 years old, I experienced something that I will never forget. It was a situation that seemed to me always to be going badly, but in fact it turned out well after all.

It was the time when I had been preparing for a very important exam, the one for being accepted at the university where I wanted to study. It was my dream to study there, but in order to see my dream coming true, I had to work hard at a subject that I didn’t like so much: Mathematics. I was not so good at this subject, so I had to take some private lessons with a professor from the University where I wanted to continue my studies, because he was familiar with the types of exercises that I was expected to have on exam.

I worked hard, but I had never received from my professor admiration or praise. I still remember his words:” I really cannot imagine you studying at this university, your Maths should be significantly improved.”

The time was coming for me to go to this exam and I was so affraid that I will not be able to do it successfully, because all my self confidence seemed to go away from me. But still, there was something there, something that was telling me :”Don’t give up, you can do it, you can do it as well as the others had done it”. And so I did. I continued to study hard, because I had a dream: I wanted to study at that university and make my parents and my teacher be proud of me.

I did my best to see my wish coming true and the good results suddenly appeared. They appeared in the time when I was so discouraged, when I felt that I don’t have the necessary power to go further. But in fact I had it and I could do it. Of course my parents and my professor were very proud of my, they congradulated me, wishing me good luck in the future.

I am still thinking now why did my professor did that. Why did he never tell me that I was good in Maths and that I will surely pass the exam? I think he didn’t want me to have a too good impression about my abilities and maybe stop working so hard for Maths.

Any way, I have learned something from this experience. Now matter how badly an event seems to be going on, you must never give up, you must work hard to see your dream coming true and never lose your self-confidence, because in my view, this is the key to success.