Going To College Should Be Based On Your Future Goals

The decision to go to college should be based on your future goals; unfortunately this decision is sometimes forced upon us by our parents/guardians. For me I made my decision to go to college and work towards a MS in psychology and a CADC certificate. Upon receiving these credentials I would like to become a counselor for family’s who have a member with an addiction problem. The inspiration for my goal is due to my older brother who suffers with addiction to heroin. Growing up loving an addict is an entire different world. I developed such anger and hate towards my brother, due to not understand how he could do this to our family, also wondering how he could be so selfish. He would fill our mother’s head with empty promises of staying clean, …show more content…
He was in and out of rehab and jail so many times I stopped counting. Through dealing with this I realized I want to assist families in understanding and dealing with loving an addict. I want to show them how to understand, instead of developing anger and hate towards the addict. I don’t want families to believe the empty lies addicts will say just to have you sign them out of rehab early. I want to help them know that they did nothing wrong, and to assure them that under the addiction their love ones still exist and still loves them. Most of all I want them to know that they are not alone, that this may happen to anyone, and addiction has no preference. One of my brothers “stays” at rehab he met a girl and they have a son together. My nephew is another huge inspiration of my choice to go to college. I want to be a positive inspiration for him. I want to show him that through struggling with two parents who are addicts although horrible, it doesn’t need to define who he is and what his future could hold. I want to inspire him to go to college and make something of himself. I always knew I wanted to go to college, but these situations guided me to choose to become a family