The Dreamer: The True Life of Brittney Cordeiro

By Brittney Cordeiro

In this book, I included challenges/tragedies Ive faced as a young teen and hope I had overcome them. Also, my biggest dreams are within this piece of writing. My main purpose of writing this sort of book was to get a couple of worldwide lessons out there. Its okay if you fail once because there are million times to retry again until you succeed. Also, there are going to be times in your life where you feel weak, but I learned its okay because everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Never give up, my fellow peers. There is a place in this world for you, me, and everyone else surrounding you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514419175

Brittney Cordeiro

Hello, my name is Brittney. I am currently sixteen years old, but I will be turning seventeen on October of this year. As a teenager, I understand that the life a teenager leads can be quite difficult. I am a teenager who is ambitious and always looking for new challenges to face every day. I have been through quite a lot as a young kid, which has made me stronger mentally and physically and even a more matured teenager. I am kindhearted, outgoing, and bubbly yet serious when I need to be. All my life, I have held the biggest dream of being some sort of doctor or even politician—more so, running for office.

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Contents

Dreamer

Strengths vs. weaknesses

People who made a difference in my life

What defines me?

Family.

Friends.

School.

Life of being a freshie

Being a Sophomore

Is it family, or strangers?

Choices I’ve made

Where I stand as a person today

Dreamer

16 years old.

I have so many dreams that I long for, and every night I lay in bed asking myself, will they ever come true? Every morning i get up because I want to, not because I have to. I feel it within myself each and every day that it’s time to make a change. Time to improve what I’ve already improved, and even time to strive higher than the day before. I get ready, thanking God to have woken me up every morning, so I can go and learn something new.

Knowing my own ancestors, even my own dad and grandparents of both sides didn’t get to have a chance of having an education like me, makes me want an education even more.

Knowing my ancestors didn’t always get to say what they wanted, makes me want to say what they wanted, everything they never had the chance to say. Stand up. Stand out.

Knowing my dad had to work so damn hard for every little thing he ever wanted and wished for, makes me want to work harder each and every day to make him so proud. Not just proud. Knowing my stubbornness evolves from my dad, makes me never want to quit it, because that’s just who I am. It defines me. I’m independent, knowing i only have myself who will never give up on myself, even if i fail the first time. I’m a competitor. I’m a Cordeiro.

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I look around the walls I’m surrounded by, wondering where will I be in twenty years. Still where I am at the moment or where I’ve always dreamt to be? I sit here, whether at school, home, around people or anywhere, thinking. Just thinking. Is my future what I plan it to be, or the total opposite? The way I was brought up makes me think and see things in such a bright way. Rather than give up on my first try, I try and try and try! I was always been taught dreams have no limits, regardless if people tell you your dreams are too far to reach or even to far into the sky. Reach it, damn it! Just reach it. Forget about what everyone around you says or thinks, just listen to yourself. Let the negativity pass you, and only the positivity strike you. There’s only one person who wants the extreme best for you-you.

Mom and dad are always another story, but you only have yourself. None of your friends care to brag if you become a doctor, or pilot, or astronaut, or even the president. They only care to talk about the fact of you becoming a store clerk or work at a fast-food all your life.

It’s your life, no one else’s. If you want to be a doctor, go for it! Go save lives, help people that thought you’d never be able to help them before. Want to be an astronaut? Go for the moon! Or better yet, build your own rocket ship so you can launch off to the moon whenever YOU feel like it. You want to be a president? Go, just go. Do it! Make a change that will make you go down in history, help the people and recognize those who helped you get there. Boy, are those dreams I wish to reach. These dreams attack me at times. Maybe I think too big. I have been blessed with supporters throughout the years, but I always come back to believing that I only have myself. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Strengths vs. weaknesses

In October of the year 1998, another dreamer was born-Brittney Maria Cordeiro.

She was just an average kid. Not too rich, not too poor. Life was just so good, and as far as for Brittney, she couldn’t ask for a better life. Woke up every morning, sat there a while talking to her mom and dad, and off to school she went. Since the day Brittney started school, she knew exactly what her parents had expected and that she made sure of.

By middle school, Brittney had her future planned out. Every year she’d leave school with a huge smile across her face, holding on strongly and proudly to a certificate. One day it had all left her. 7th grade. She lost one of the most important people in her life-her dad.

What was the point in continuing everything she had planned if one of her two greatest supporters was now gone, she thought to herself. She didn’t want to go back to school or even dream any longer. After a while, she saw what she was doing, and it wasn’t right. She had spent a couple of months not talking to anyone.

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What was I doing? I still had my mom, and me acting like this only made her feel worthless, and that she wasn’t. At that point, I felt selfish. I was only concerned about myself, and had only thought I had lost someone important. The following year was graduation of middle school, and I knew I had to do that. I wanted it for myself, mom and dad because they deserved getting something back, for all that they had done for me. Who was there to support me? Mom. At that point, I had realized mom never left my side once, and always had supported me. I found myself smiling, looking up and then back down, thanking my dad for everything. For even making me strong because I knew it was my job to watch out and take care of mom now. Once high school had came around, I thought to myself, this is the last chance I have to step up my game. I knew from the first day of 9th grade, I would be defined for the rest of my four years at Durfee. At first, I was getting the vibe that the year would drag and it wouldn’t be a great year. It only took a couple of months for me to soon realize, I was doing a lot better, and had some really supporting teachers and peers. It isn’t every day that you see many teachers or peers being so supportive. I started to get back on the ball, was doing all my homework, and even joining different clubs. I was doing good for myself, and others. Through this whole entire year, I was able