Quotes by Roy

Quotes by Roy - November 2018 Scholarship Essay

Varsity Scholarships

Roy Rodriguez

11-7-18

Quotes

In today's deliverable I will be talking about what my senior quote would say on my year book. And why it would say that? I’m not going to lie to you. It's simple yet meaningful. The best things in life are. ‘’Stay positive and positive things happen.’’ - Roy Rodriguez

This quote to me means the world and here's why. Before I was a high school graduate. Before I was attending college. Even before I had my daughter or was with my current girlfriend and step son. There was a point in my life where I was homeless.

I was living on the streets with no job, no money, was addicted to drugs, selling drugs. I was doing things that wouldn’t make my mother proud. On a daily basis I was involved with gangs. Shoot outs, fights you name it I've seen it. Every day though when I woke up id tell myself ‘’ Stay positive and positive thing will happen’’. Id visit my daughter every day at 5:30 P.M. no matter what was going on in my life. The was the time my step-mother and father where there.

See me, and the mother didn’t see eye to eye and we couldn’t get over are differences, so she left me. In Hine sight we both should have never cheated. But that’s neither here nor there. Even the day she packed her bags and said ‘’ Roy I'm leaving you. You can keep our daughter.’’ I told myself ‘’ Just stay positive and positive things will happen.’’

I tried to stay positive It was hard. It seems like when one bad thing happens another bad thing happens right after. So much to the point where you just want to give up. For a while I did. I became a single father who was working at a factory. I was a high school dropout and had recently became an alcoholic. So, my step mom intervened and took custody away from me. I didn’t even go to court for her. Not because I didn't love her. Because I knew the court was going to see me as an unfit parent.

So much drama happens in are day to day lives it gets to the point where you wonder. Is there really someone out there watching over me? Don’t get me wrong I come from a religious background, but anyone and everyone feels doubt. I caught myself saying ‘’if there really is someone out there watching wouldn't he or she stop this?’’

I mean all my life I've had to put up with other people's negativity. My mom putting her hands on me. I mean she was only taking her anger out on me, because my father left when I was five and didn’t even try to get back into my life until I was 15. Or it could have been my step fathers abusive habits toward my mother and me I'm not sure.

No matter what Everyday I woke up and I told myself ‘’stay positive and positive things will happen.’’ To be honest I would tell myself this every day and I really didn’t even believe it, but if I didn’t believe in something then what? In 2017 in January I was incarcerated for crime did not commit. Yet plead ‘‘no contest’’ because I did not want to tell on my friends. And didn’t want to receive a 5-year sentence in prison if I lost the trial.

I settle court for a year in the county jail. And 3 years' probation. At the time I hated my life, but little did I know the lord or someone watching was planning big things for me. And he was going to change my life. While I was behind bars, I worked out every day I was still involved with gangs but tried to keep to myself. I started reading more I read The Art of Subduction, The Art of War, and many other books. But for some reason the book that called my name the most was the bible.

Now I'm not here to be a holyrolly and Bible thump you, but while I read the bible, I concluded that someone was watching me. How you ask? Well you see in my opinion the lord loves all of us. So much so he gave us free will. How people choose to use that gift is totally up to them. So, if someone harms you that’s his or her choice. The lord didn’t make that happen. He or she is not just watching this happen. He or she is with you the whole time. Trying to comfort you the whole time. He didn’t stop it because he couldn’t.

‘’God helps those who help themselves’’ you see if you believe no matter what if you ‘’ stay positive than positive things will happen.’’ than they will. I'm 22 now I've been a sober step father for two years now. With a model of a girlfriend. Who got his G.E.D. While I was incarcerated. I'm currently going to court for custody of my daughter. And I'm going to graduate college in 3 weeks. I'm attending SJVC in Hanford and I'm still waking up every morning hoping into my 1991 black jet firebird heading to the gym or to work still saying ‘’stay positive and positive things will happen.’’

Sincerely Roy Rodriguez