Self Confidence Essay By A 15yr Boy With A Rare Cancer-like Disease.

Every day there are new gifts delivered as someone is born. The only thing people can see are the prices that are paid and not the talent that is delivered. It is in there somewhere, it is in every one of us. The boy discovers his power unraveling it inch by inch with still miles to go. As soon as the gift was discovered, the soul becomes a warrior, with the heart like a shield. He is a completely different person on the inside, but he is the exact same person the whole entire time.

When he was born, the masterpiece was delivered, but so was the bill. The gift is invisible, but the bill isn’t. The price that was paid was unbearable. The mother goes through more pain seeing the child on wheels, than the child does. The cost is something that never goes away. It can’t be lived with, but it also can’t be lived without. The symptoms never go away and get worse over time. Dying to figure out the answer to the million dollar question, the caring mother goes to the doctors, but they tell her he is normal. Years pass, it seems hopeless. After hundreds of visits one man stands out of the crowd and diagnoses a disease. Both shocked and pleased, the mother solved the enigma. A genetic test all the way across the country solved the riddle. When the word of the diease was given was introduced, the tides turned. Her heart was sowed back together. Then the gift became visible. The doctor showed the statistics of IQ for the disease to me. It was like getting a blessing. Out of nowhere the confidence overwrites my thinking and turned me into a genius. It was a completely different world for me, but nothing had changed.

It has made me into someone that most people will only dream of. At the time it seemed hard to believe. Removing tumors one step at a time is like paying for the piece one step at a time. It isn’t half bad to stand out from the crowd in a positive way, with the only cost requiring a couple of surgeries every decade and an MRI scan twice a year. Every step is another step toward exterminating the imperfection but not taking away the gift.

Everyone in the world has a gift. Going through this process doesn’t create one; it lets someone know what theirs is. It turns someone into a hero. It destroys the poison that prevented them from being optimistic. This life changing experience has always boggled my mind: If the doctor wouldn’t have told me the gift that I have, would I be as successful as I am now in school? This has proved that it is better to have a disability, endowment, and be strong in the inside than it is to be normal. Another question that is equally puzzling is: Is the reason why I am smart because I think I am, or is it because of genetics? It is better to think that you have a gift and develop one than have a gift and not use it.

Standing out of the crowd is both the most marvelous, and the worst part. It has turned me into a model, every day discovering something new that the gift can do. It has taught me that a person’s optimism is generated by their perspective on things. The most important thing to remember is it is not the drawback itself that is the worst part. It is how it affects a person mentally. Self esteem and fear is like its own disease. This occurs during the early stages of becoming a hero. This is cured when the trip to becoming a warrior is complete. Fear eats the victim faster than the tumors do. Knowing what the gift is, curse this.