Personal Narrative: The Creation Of Individualism

In a world without values, people would be lost in a sense of who they are and what they want to be. Living in this world gives us a multitude of opportunities to craft our beliefs. Once these beliefs are seeded, values begin to grow in your life. Values are the things that are subconsciously back in our heads yelling at us when we are making every single decision throughout our lives. The years that pass allow for you to shape these molds directly and fittingly into your own life. Individualism is the uniqueness of one’s self which in turn creates differences among any two people you see on the street. The creation of Individualism is built upon the basic structures of moments within someone’s past and the decisions they have taken to be where …show more content…
Every moment that I have witnessed or been a part of has affected me and my values. Individualism was created by many things throughout my life. This idea of my individualism began when I was younger living with my parents. When I was at a young age, I began to be driven around to each of their houses depending on the day or the weekend. My holidays became seventy five percent driving and twenty five percent spending time with family, separately that is. Although this bothered me, it forced me to grow. Both of my parents were affected by this event in our lives in the worst of ways. It led both of them to addictions that took over their lives like a wild fire, leaving me on the outside to watch them fall apart. Most days in my childhood, my grandparents would drop me off at one of my parent’s houses where I would walk into an empty room. I knew my parent, whether mother or father, would be in their room doing whatever they did. My sister and I would often feed ourselves and occupy ourselves with whatever we could think of that day. Many times after holidays where I received gifts, the gifts would go “missing” or “stolen” within the passing weeks. As I grew mentally and physically, I began to understand what exactly was happening around me. I simply did not have the ability to stop any of this. It was greater than …show more content…
My story and who I am spoke to others. My individualism directly affected the people around me for the better, growing them mentally and spiritually. Individualism is also the power of listening to other’s stories allowing them to shape you as a person. In my sophomore year of high school, I witnessed my best friend go through the toughest of his struggles dealing with alcohol. He found an outlet to all of the stress and pain of his life through becoming a drunken zombie living through life without actually living. He lost who he was. One day, he realized where he was and fought his way back to where he truly wanted to be. When he speaks of his story, your individuality is affected by learning from what he himself had gone through.
The value of individualism has led me to believe in the differences one person can make on others in the simplest of ways. This has influenced my decisions about my future and what I want it to look like. My plan of going into the medical field is built upon helping others with what I know and who I am. As I go throughout my profession, my uniqueness will impact others as I help them through their struggles. The struggles people go through that I see will constantly be shaping who I am, keeping my eyes open to grow in whatever way called. The growth is caused by diversity amongst the people you surround yourself with. In the medical field, I will