Throughout your lifetime, you grow into learning things about yourself from challenges that you’ve gone through during the course of your life. Achieving your goals and acknowledging your achievements  is also an important part of shaping who you are. In the following paragraphs,  you will be reading an interview about the perspective of a father and his biggest challenges, goals, and accomplishments that he went through whilst growing up to become the individual he is today. 

Who is Octavio?

Octavio was born in 1985 in Mexico, Jalisco. Jalisco is well known for its diversity, beautiful landscapes, and cultural traditions. He was born into a low-income family, being the third oldest out of seven siblings with his main goal being having the ability to grow up and do whatever he wanted and to be independent. While growing up, he had to work at a very early age to be able to help his family with paying for clothes, bills, food, etc. And while working at a very young age helped him reach his goals, he learned to become self-reliant and learned many things about life that he did not know before. 

High School Experience 

When asked about his High School experience, he seemed to have a positive viewpoint toward his high school years. He explained his experience as an unforgettable and beautiful part of his life where he made many friends from different ethnicities, as well as different cultural backgrounds. He also had his first romantic relationship in high school. His biggest challenges through this part of his life was avoiding the usage of drugs, being a good person, and continuing to work to be able to pay for the things he wanted. 

Biggest Accomplishments 

After high school, Octavio gained one of his personal biggest accomplishments: having a family of his own and being able to look forward to going home after work knowing that he has someone waiting for him at home. And apart from that, he gained better work ethics at his job and got a better economic position on the social economic pyramid. He achieved these accomplishments by being constant with work, gaining discipline, being a responsible individual, and valuing communication between himself and his partner and his kids. 

Life Lessons 

His biggest life lesson was learning that life is short, and you need to make the most of it and enjoy it to the fullest. From this lesson, he learned not to worry as much over problems that weren’t significant enough to get worked up about, and that it’s better to find a solution for your problems because finding a solution is always the better option when it comes to facing conflicts or issues that are creating a negative impact.

Conclusion 

In conclusion, this interview showed that Octavio was able to change and accomplish his goals, which, over the years, led him to become a wiser person and helped him be who he is today. Furthermore, this interview also shows how life will contain many challenges throughout the path towards finding the person you desire to be, but these same challenges will help you become a stronger person with many accomplishments. And although mistakes might happen along the way, it’s always good to remember that those same mistakes create life lessons that will help develop you into the person you choose to be.