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True persistence

 

What’s your biggest dream, and what would you do to achieve it? Life often doesn’t turn out how we planned. What do you do then? Do you face the difficulties, or do you give up?

The story of my hero gets a special place in my heart because it has one main character but two heroes. Where shall I start? Yes, I would like to tell you about my sister. A true perfectionist. She’d had this personality trait already back then when she started university but beginning her studies didn’t go smoothly. Her first thing to do was to apply for a dorm room, because getting to school would have been a true struggle every single day by train, bus and the local bus service. This would have meant six hours of commuting each day. She obviously tried her best to get a place in the dormitory.

The story would end here if reality would be like a fairy tale. But we all know that it is not always like that. So, she kept on trying without success for months, she didn’t get a room, meanwhile she would wake up at 3:30 in the morning and get home at night. This hard and unlucky situation didn’t affect her schoolwork, though, it was always excellent. She studied a lot; she rose assiduously before the sun for months. She didn’t give up, she did everything to change the situation, she didn’t complain, her days consisted of studying and travelling. I’m not telling a secret by saying that sometimes she fell asleep during her morning classes. This caught one of the professor’s eyes, but she didn’t voice her curiosity in a nice way.

“What is it, did you stay up too late partying?” Asked the teacher in front of the whole class. My sister broke the silence of course. She told her that the dormitory got full, and she didn’t manage to get in, and still, she didn’t skip any of her classes and she woke up at dawn every single day to get to school. The teacher’s voice immediately changed. She apologised for the coarse remark and asked her to talk after the lesson. This is how - with the altruistic help of the teacher- my sister managed to get into the dorm. Without her intervention this possibly would’ve never happened. Getting to university and staying awake wasn’t a struggle anymore. I believe, now you understand, why this story is so dear to me.

Lucia Lakatos

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