My Resilience Essay

My Resilience Essay
Paul Rogo
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." Jackie Robinson once said that, while he played for the NY Dodgers baseball team, many hated him for the color of his skin. Though, he never stopped hitting those balls. Just like my dad. He was a catholic at a all Christian school, he was picked on all through elementary school, and got graded harder. He never changed schools or gave up on trying to fit in.
He was a strong black man! He entered the world of baseball with determination, the will to stand above all others. While people discriminated him, he played, while people yelled at him from the stands, he played, and while his own teammates beat him, he played on like no one else. That was when they began to realize what this man was made of.

One boy, two religions, one belief. That was something my dad faced through his childhood, he went to a all Christian school, while he himself was a catholic. He didn’t hide it, and was teased, beat up, made fun of, and graded harder than anyone else. He even almost failed 3rd grade, but his parents stuck up for him. He refused to convert to Christian; he was a catholic at heart.

Being in middle school, it’s never easy. People, anyone and everyone gets teased at some point. Some even more then others, unfortunately. I am definitely one of them. For example, I can be very slow (mentally) and people laugh at it, and call it a blonde moment. I don’t really care anymore though, I overcame it. As well as, like the only one not done with a test, or the only one who doesn’t play a sport. Except, my problems are far less greater than theirs were.

Living on a legacy such as Jackie Robinson is almost impossible, and my dad is almost impossible. Their lives aren’t even comparable to mine. The legacy they have is important because they never gave up, they didn’t stop when the everyone else wanted them to, they didn’t give in.