From The Bottom To Top: Romelu Lukaku

Everybody might have been various problems in their own life. These problems are originated by different causes and sometimes get worse. Usually, these situations keep going on for a while. We just wait the stopping of the situations that happen in a row. The worse experience stops these cases generally. Anymore nothing is the same and you start to climb up from the bottom slowly.

Romelu Lukaku definitely have lived a life like this, too. He fell into the bottom at the first years of his life but nowadays he’s playing for Manchester United and he’s one of the best forwards in the world. Let’s go to the beginning of the story. Lukaku was born in Anvers –one of the port cities of Belgium- His parents had financial problems and they needed neighbors’ help. Lukaku was telling a memory like this:

“I was 6 years old and when the school gave a lunch break, I was coming to home. I just had 2 options; bread and milk. One day, while I was coming home, I saw my mother as she mixed water with milk. Because drinking the milk became luxury for us.

The situation got worse for Lukaku. His father was a football player locally and his career was finishing. So, they had financial problems. Therefore, their electric and hot water was cut. Lukaku’s life was in the bottom in those days. After that, he focused on the football for finding a way out and he ran for his dreams. For a long time..

While the bad days keeping, Lukaku was believing to his dreams about football as a way out. So that, he walked almost 10 kilometers everyday for playing at a football club. After he played in various teams, he started to play for Lierse’s young team while he was 11. He keeped his motto still: Be the best football player of Belgium. He worked hard for reach his target. He was beginning to take his works’ result as 76 goals in 34 matchs.

He lived a different problem this years. Her grandfather called him and he said that: “I believe that you will realize your dreams. You will care my daughter after I will die. “

While Lukaku thought this says of her grandfather, he learned grandfather’s death. After than, he had more motivation for fight. He had succeed for her grandfather’s request. When he stepped firstly to green field, this was in her mind and he took quickly the value of her works’: He started to play in Anderlect A Team while he was just 16 and he have kept her success.

He didn’t live in Belgium longly as a professional football player and he transferred to Chelsea. After the problems Belgium people said racist thing about him but her dreams were onto my this situations. He have remembered bad days in childhood and says of grandfather. So, he have had full concentration and he is one of the best football players today.

You should’t forget that motivation is the only thing which connects you to life. If you want be successful, you should have a target for getting up in the bed. Money or award can motivate you for a short time but your sustainable success is depend on your intrinsic motivation. Like Lukaku who keeps his motivation from he was 8 to until..