The Underrated Aspect Of Working Hard

I was reminiscing on the past especially during the middle and high school days and I had a thought. I remember back in those days I had a friend group and for the most part the majority of us had a lot of classes together and did a lot together like friends growing up. It was very nice to have those kind of people I could trust and vice versa. What was funny was all those times I was seen as the "smart one" in the friend group. There was some truth to this because I had the best grades most of the time but now that I think about it that was far from the truth.

I wouldn't say I was not smart or anything but I wasn't as smart as they thought me out to be and honestly didn't deserve to be put on as high a pedestal as they put me on. There was one underrated quality I had and looking back now that quality has gotten me to where I am in life. The quality was just simple hard work. I was willing to put the extra work in and sacrifice other things to achieve what I wanted. During those school years there were a lot of times I didn't understand a lot of things but I made sure I went to tutoring and even stayed after school to make sure I was putting in extra effort to learn what I needed to.

In high school the library was my second home and I spent a lot of time in there that I was familiar with the librarians to the point where my senior year I was chosen as a library aid because I was familiar with how everything worked. It was a match made. This stayed with me all through college in which I was always in the library also. In college I was in the library for hours even sometimes till 1-2am making sure I was getting my work done and others. An essay due in 2 weeks would be started on today and would be submitted days before the deadline. That was the kind of person I was and led me to continuous success.

Study sessions, tutoring, office hours that was all me. Part of hard work is sacrificing and I sacrificed a lot of parties, time at clubs, hangouts and others but I had a deeper vision in mind. What I am trying to say is you don't have to be the smartest or the most intelligent to be successful but you do have to work hard. This example had to do with my academic history but this can apply to all other aspects. You have to be willing to put in the work because that is the part you can't escape. The sacrifice, blood sweat and tears is what gets you to the destination.