My Inspiration by Caleb

My Inspiration by Caleb - October 2019 Scholarship Essay

My mom has inspired me the most academically. My mom's name is ELizabeth Zeches she was born on August 22, 1970 and had me on January 27, 2003. My two older brothers were trouble makers in school, they never tried in school, they were distracting the class too much. getting into fights, and talking back to teachers in a disrespectful manner. My mom loved them with all her heart but she knew they weren't going to go into college and it was her dream for one of her kids to go to college, especially Baylor University in Waco, Texas. I was the answer to her dream. I was the child that was good at school and applied myself taking hard classes. Currently in eleventh grade I am taking pre-calculus, physics and statistics, which is a college course. I am trying my best to do what she wanted out of all her kids but so far didn't get with her two oldest boys.
My mom passed away on September 8, 2015 after a couple of years of battling cancer. I was just twelve years old when she lost her battle with cancer my younger sister was only nine years old. I remember the night she died from what I was wearing, to what I did after school, my grandma waking me up to go to the hospital and running red lights, all my family members crying, giving me hugs and kisses, my brother telling me to make her dream come true, and then finally seeing her lifeless body. Looking back at the pictures of my mom before she died and she looked like a skeleton wearing skin, she didn't look like the energetic, beautiful, life of the party woman that I grew up loving with all my heart.
My mom was and always has been my inspiration to go to college and graduate from college. Even now that she has passed I work hard everyday to try to make her proud in heaven. I try to make her proud by playing sports for my school, being involved in school with pep-rallies, dances, taking hard classes that are one or even two grade levels above my grade and filling out scholarships like this one. I just hope once I see her again she will say that I made her proud.