respose to poem

In Tupac Shakur’s poem “If I Fail” he writes about how people should make plans or set goals and not become discouraged if “[They] stumble or crumble,” because we can do anything that we set our minds to (Rose 27). His poem is an encouraging and motivating poem that I think that a lot of people can relate to because he talks about how there are times that people will encounter some kind of hardship while trying to achieve his or her goals. I feel that it is important to know what my goals are, what my plans are, and what steps I’m going to take to achieve my goals. I can relate to this poem in particularly because there are times where I feel like I fail at chasing my goals or dreams going through hardships and not being guide to achieve my goals. There are many experience that I have encounter trying to achieve. Tupac poems allow people see that there are possibility to trying to achieve goals living in poverty with no guidance.

An experience that I have encounter trying to achieve my goal was during my first year in college at University of California Davis. I was the first to attend college in my family and I was trying to make my parents, my siblings and myself proud, but I feel like I have fail at achieving this goal because I am no longer pursuing my education there. I lived in the dorms with random girls that was assign to the suite and had a great experience throughout the whole year, but my performance in class was not paying off. I did not get good grades in some of my classes where I was expecting to get passing grade because I had made the wrong decision by not studying enough and traveling back and forth from Davis to Oakland where my parents and family lived. Like in the poem I was out in a new environment with no one close to me to guide and I had to just listen to what my insider voice was telling me. I’m learning form the mistakes that have made and making changes to trying to achieve the rest of my goals.

Making plans and setting goals in life will lead me to a better future and good times in life trying to achieve my goals. Something that I will take away from this poem is being passionate about chasing and achieving my goals even if there is hardship along the way. If Tupac was able to achieve his goals then I would be able to as well because he has fallen many times and was able to put himself back at the top at try his hardest at achieving his goals. This poem is a really good from the heart poem that myself and other and learn from.