Foster children are counted out from the letter "F!" First they feel unwanted growing up with a chip on their shoulder. Failure is what stats want you to believe. Feelings are hard to come by growing up depending on what kind of home they have. Furthermore, those feelings are bottled up because they have one thing in common, "Is this my last house?" Future is unwritten, and I will not be a stat! I am here to let you know what fueled me to become more! I will share the life experience that I used to shape my perspective, my future, and the role of education's use. Finally, my goal is to persevere after being alone. Now let me begin with what aids my desire to better my life by starting with my experience. Granted life of a foster is hard, but the standard of hope has risen with more of a watchful eye on foster homes. That being said, it is still hard living feeling like you are nothing always asked why do they not want me. You either break and blame the world with hate or use it as a stepping stone to find your worth and never stop. The perspective I found was my self-worth, and school was my way out to a better life. It was the first time I saw the positive influence of family which was my teachers that gave me hope through my education, and this is how. My education is mine and mine alone. As a foster child, we have to share everything but not my education. That I learned early through my 5th-grade history teacher and I still thank you for that, Ma'am. I learned that my education was opening doors at school for me and how my education was praised. Someone with nothing was being praised for the ability they had. I finally had something that was mine. I still shared my gift because some do not see the world as I do, but it was my choice, my gift to give and this helped lead up to my final point. I wasn't the smartest but I found a way to persevere through education and pave it forward. The only person that I can control is me. It gave me the tenacity to be more with having less. Only I can bring myself to the breaking point of just being a stat but no I chose not to live in self-pity. Only I can make my world bad or good. If I inspire one person to do better in life then that is one less to the statistics. I like to finish with my future is bright thanks to my perspective of my education that help me persevere in my life. Education paves my road to my goal of digital marketing, web designs, or anything computer related the world is mine. Do you know what else starts with the letter "F?" Forever fighting forward for my future that has yet to be found.