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.

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