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Road Less Travelled
#WritcoStoryPrompt89
"Set your life on a different path." Frame a motivating tale to go along with the phrase.
I was an eighteen-year-old New York girl, a heiress to a fortune. My parents were the wealthiest people in Brooklyn, and by far the most influential. As the youngest child, I had watched my older brothers and sisters leave for college with a mixture of sorrow and happiness. Every single one of us were expected to follow a very concise career path.
We were supposed to be prosecuting attorneys.
My great-grandfather started the tradition, as my father told the story. He was said to be the greatest lawyer in New York State. Then, as generations wore on, more men and women in our family followed in his footsteps. Now if we don't keep the tradition, it has already been established that we will be cut out of our inheritance.
And so off to Harvard university I went, with every intention of working my hardest and graduating from law school at the top of my class. I had high hopes at first, I never second-guessed my calling as an attorney.
Until the day I found my true passion.
It was November 18th, 2019, 9:56 P.M. I was in my dorm room studying for a midterm exam I had the next day. Then an email arrived on my laptop. I sighed when I was it was from the school. Reluctantly, I opened it and immediately saw it was from my English professor. He was reminding me that I had a paper due....tomorrow. As I read those last few lines, I...
"Set your life on a different path." Frame a motivating tale to go along with the phrase.
I was an eighteen-year-old New York girl, a heiress to a fortune. My parents were the wealthiest people in Brooklyn, and by far the most influential. As the youngest child, I had watched my older brothers and sisters leave for college with a mixture of sorrow and happiness. Every single one of us were expected to follow a very concise career path.
We were supposed to be prosecuting attorneys.
My great-grandfather started the tradition, as my father told the story. He was said to be the greatest lawyer in New York State. Then, as generations wore on, more men and women in our family followed in his footsteps. Now if we don't keep the tradition, it has already been established that we will be cut out of our inheritance.
And so off to Harvard university I went, with every intention of working my hardest and graduating from law school at the top of my class. I had high hopes at first, I never second-guessed my calling as an attorney.
Until the day I found my true passion.
It was November 18th, 2019, 9:56 P.M. I was in my dorm room studying for a midterm exam I had the next day. Then an email arrived on my laptop. I sighed when I was it was from the school. Reluctantly, I opened it and immediately saw it was from my English professor. He was reminding me that I had a paper due....tomorrow. As I read those last few lines, I...
