Pivot Point
I believe that there is no one doing so well or so poorly but that their life can be changed unalterably for the better. The best of the best can still improve, and the worst of the worst still has something left to live for. It's said that life turns on small hinges. That's true. Sometimes they're so small that no one else could ever know about them. Some of the most important pivot points of my life weren't things that outside observers would have been able to see, even if you could have been with me every moment of every day. That's because the meaning I chose to make of the world around me is a key component of who I am inside. When I was in 8th grade, my History and English teachers combined forces to institute a debate competition on historical topics. My group was particularly gung ho about it and with a lot of hard work we made it all the way to the championship. Then, right before the final roun