My Hero

My hero was a high school drop out; he could not speak fluently until he was nine years old; his parents feared he was mentally handicapped; and he was the greatest genius of science. Who is this science genius? My hero Albert Einstein
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When Albert was four years old and sick in bed, Albert’s father gave him a compass. Albert practiced turning the compass every which way. Soon becoming fascinated by the new toy, no matter which way he turned it, the needle would always point in the same direction, and much in the way of Einstein’s genius and fascination with nature, pointed him toward a life of scientific discovery.

However, it was not his scientific field that I was amazed about, but it was his philosophy that I loved so much. He had a vision and did everything in his way. I truly admire his action because most of the people don’t have a gut to do so. I once tried to drop out of school because I knew that the materials that we are learning right now are pretty much useless after 10 years. We won’t know what quantum physics was and we might also have a hard time remembering the teachers. This might somehow sound very typical for a boy in a high school, but if you think carefully, really these materials are not going to help us to be a better person or anything. Will Warren Buffet, the second richest person in the world remember the materials that he learned in his junior or even senior year of high school? I doubt it.

When I am older I hope to achieve something as great as he did, but also build my own philosophy of life. While Einstein is a good role model I cannot always look up to him for everything I need and that I must find my own path just as he found his. That is why Albert Einstein is my hero.