The Life You Imagine

The independent reading book that I chose for the second marking period is called The Life You Imagine, written by Derek Jeter.  Just as a little background of why I wanted to read this particular book: I have always been in love with the New York Yankees baseball team, probably because of my dad who had been a fan for his entire life as well.  But I just remember watching the games with my dad when I was little, wanting to learn all about the game of baseball.  He definitely taught me everything I need to know and to this day I’m still in love with the sport.  Derek Jeter is one of my role models that I look up to.  I have had this book for a while, just sitting on my shelf at home and I have absolutely no idea why I never picked it up to read it.  When I heard that we needed an autobiography or a biography for this marking period, I went home and found this book that I have never read and I was so excited to start reading.

Although I have only read the introduction and the first chapter, forty-four pages in total, I cannot stop reading this book.  The reason I’m starting to blog after only reading a chapter is because in those forty-four pages I became so knowledgeable of how much Derek Jeter strived to reach his goals.  This book is mainly about Derek Jeter’s goals and how he got there, but he also sends an extremely large message to kids and teens saying you can do anything you want to do in life as long as you set goals and never give up.  Another thing that piqued my interest was how Derek knew other baseball players who set goals so low that when they reached their goals, they stopped trying even when everyone knew they could have kept on going.  I can tell already that this book will inspire me to set my goals high, because I know when I eventually get there and reach my goal I can feel extremely good about it because I tried my best and it paid off.