The gift of being driven and desperate to achieve academically motivated me to make more of myself than circumstances circumscribed. Desperation helped me to run thru the walls of victimization. The gift of desperation got me out of just being who I was to become who I wanted to be. More importantly, the Gift of Desperation has helped me become the man, the intellectual and the human being God wants me to become. I found in my desperation a gift and a joy the world did not give me and the world could never take away. I thank my God I found this Gift of Desperation.
