A couple of days ago my friend lent me a Rubik’s Cube (the game with the colored cubes). I was so determined to solve it, I stayed hours and hours just observing it and trying to fix it. And it maybe was the reason why I hadn’t written a post in nearly a week. I started thinking, why was I so determined to do it? Why do all of us try to achieve something? Why does each individual try to do his/her best? Is it to prove something to someone, or just to prove to one’s self that you can do it? Human thinking and behavior is a deep sea of knowledge and acts. I mean we all know that we humans thrive to do our best, and to achieve our goals and dreams, no matter how hard, silly or impossible they are.
Wondering about that made me think about my own dreams and what I want to do in life. My goal is to be someone, to influence society. And the way I want to do that is by (knowledge). They say “Knowledge is power”, and I plan on being as powerful as I can be. Since my passion is technology and electronics, I would like to turn that passion into a goal. I want to create a program that is as well-known as facebook, as practical as Google and as helpful as lime wire. I want to leave my mark in what I like to do. That is my goal, the goal that I am willing to work hard, and do what it takes to achieve it.
The leaders and characters that I look up to made me realize that I can do whatever I want by putting my mind into it, and achieving my goal in the right way. Some of those leaders are Prophet Mohammed, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King and Charles Dickens. They all had qualities that I will work to gain. Prophet Mohammed was known for his sympathy and good morals, and the way that he treated others with respect. Gandhi was known for his (act of peace), he achieved his goal with no violence and no aggression, while most people 
resorted to only that. Nelson Mandela stayed almost 26 years in prison just to stop the discrimination against black people, now he is the president of South Africa. He stood up for what he believed in. Helen Keller was blind, deaf and couldn’t talk. But she still read, wrote and did remarkable things, she was determined to achieve her objective and worked day and night to do so. Martin Luther king had the amazing gift of speech, he wrote about what he believed in and he convinced people and showed them what he thought by his own words and by using his voice. And one of my favorite writers Charles dickens, he was able to convey his ideas and the aspects of his century and the dilemmas they went through, by writing amazing novels and stories that had a great moral purpose.
I would like to take from each one of these role models the qualities that best presented him/her. And use those qualities to achieve my own goals, and to prove what I can be. We are what we know, and we know what we want, and what we want is our goal and purpose in life. Now take a second and think, just think of what you like, and what you want to do? What do you live for? Why do you do the things you do every day? What is YOUR purpose in life, and HOW will you achieve it?
P.S. I solved the Rubik’s Cube!, that’s a start 
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