Dertermination

Determination

A decision followed by a driving force that allows one to put up more weight, go a little further, wake up a little earlier or push yourself harder. Determination plays a role in our everyday lives from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed. Whether it’s not pushing the snooze button on thee alarm clock or finishing all your homework before you go to bed, determination plays a role in ones day to day life in many aspects of life.
Determination is wanting something so bad that you would do anything to get that certain something even if it takes sweat and tears. Determination is that pesky little voice in the back of your head when your going for a run and you feel like your heart is about to pound out of your chest and your legs are about to fall off but there’s still half a block to run and that voice is telling you “just one more block, one more block.” Determination is when your on your last set on the bench press and your arm are getting numb and fatigue and are trembling vigorously and your thinking to yourself “just one more set, one more set.”
In 2006, the Seattle Seahawks were severely plagued by staggering amounts of injuries. With Matt Hasselbeck, starting quarterback and pro-bowl player out with a sprained knee and NFL MVP and All Pro running back Shaun Alexander out with a broken foot midway through the season, along with injuries to Ituli Mili, Marcus Tubbs, Floyd Womack and Darrell Jackson, the Seahawks easily could of easily written off there season before it even got started. Determined to get back to the post season like the previous 2005 year in which the team went to the super bowl, backups like Seneca Wallace and Maurice Morris picked up where Hasslebeck and Alexander left off and kept the team afloat in the NFC West. With there backs turned against the wall, the Seahawks managed to pull out a 9-7 record and most importantly won the NFC West division. Nagged by injuries, Seattle was able to make it to the second round of the extremely competitive NFC playoffs.
Determination also played a pivotal part in my life earlier this year. At the beginning of the fall quarter this year, I decided that I didn’t want to go to school yet. Instead, I worked 32-40 hours a week at my current job Tommy Hilfiger, in which I was beginning to hate thoroughly. After a month of working nearly full-time and realizing how much I actually missed and wanted to be in school, I decided I would return to school again even if it meant making significantly less money and only working part time. Being determined as much as I was to go back to school, when winter quarter came and it was time to register for classes, I singed up as fast as I could and my hours at work became very minimal. The reason I’m going to college is so that I will find a fulltime job someday that I love doing instead of not going to school and work at a place that I’m coming around to resent. If that’s not determination, than I don’t know what is.
The real definition of determination is the act of making or arriving at a decision. Like I said earlier, we as people make decisions big and small everyday of our lives that have to do with determination. People wouldn’t be who they are if they weren’t determined or had determination for or by something in our crazy, beautiful, unpredictable and wonderful everyday lives.