FREE ESSAY ON EDUCATION AND OUR LIFE

EDUCATION AND OUR LIFE

Education is the most important part of our lives.
Like Belizaire's mother said, education is the most important 
thing in life. In my life, like Belizaire's mother, I had my father and 
my mother tell me, that education is the most important. They 
were telling me that education is something that I am going to keep 
for the rest of my life whatever happens. Whatever, I am going to do 
in my life education is the step, which I am going to use. Nowadays, 
education is like the identity for the people. Education is the thing that 
separates person between people.
I come from Greece, and the educational system 
there is very difficult compared to other countries. I started school 
with very good teachers, and that helped me a lot, at the beginning. I 
had a good base, and I was a pretty good student. The truth is that I 
didn't like to read too much. I could understand everything very easy 
bad I was lazy. Once again, my parents helped me at that part of my 
life, and put me at the correct path. When I was in junior high school 
besides my school as a student, I wanted to be a water polo athlete 
also. At the beginning it was easy to combine these two, but after 
while, as I was growing things started getting tough. My ambitions 
were more; I wanted to be a good athlete and a good student. That 
meant that I had more hours of practice and less hours to study. It 
wasn't something easy; I had to wake up five in the morning to go 
for practice and after that eight o'clock I had to be at school. When 
school was over, I had to go at my house to eat and study, because 
six o'clock till eight in the evening I had to go for practice again. At 
the and of the day I was exhausted, till the next day in which I had to 
follow the same program.
It was a very difficult program to follow. Nevertheless, 
I had the support of my parents that helped me. When I graduate 
from high school I had to make a very difficult decision. I had to 
decide to be a water polo player as a professional, or to continue my 
studies. I was garbled in thought. I was eighteen years old, and I had 
to make the most important decision of my life. It was the most 
important decision, because I had to follow whatever I decide for the 
rest of my life. I wanted to continue, studying and playing water 
polo. 
As a sportsperson, I have seen athletes with great athletic 
history and career that decided to follow only water polo. After their 
retirement, it was very disappointing for me because some of them
continued their life and they could hardly survive financially. They 
didn't work in good places and their lifestyle was much worse since the 
time they had become athletes. I had some friends as an example for 
me who achieved both education and sports. I tried to gain 
information from their experience, and they provided me with valuable 
advice.
Eventually, my decision was to go and study in the 
United States. It was very difficult decision for me, but I had the 
chance to study while I was playing water polo and I grabbed that 
chance. I believe that I did the best for me and my future and that I 
will be someone at least with good education.