Personal Narrative: My Long Term Goals

Throughout the course of my life I have set out many goals or milestones for myself that I aim to accomplish. As the time has passed through module after module, leading one of my long terms goal to dwindle down into a short term goal. Walking across the stage as a sign of completing my degree will leave me a different perspective towards my world. Out of the vast majority of my classmates I am one of the eldest. At 52 I will be completing my bachelor’s degree. It’s been 10 years since I completed my associate’s degree. Now some may wonder why after so long of being out of school why go back? Well I simply had a point to prove to myself and my kids. I want a better job not only for the better pay, but to have a job where I can employee all …show more content…
As my last child leaves home I hope to really begin living my life for myself and not for anyone else. I plan to travel more as I really haven’t had the opportunity to do with having school and my daughters many, many senior fees. I plan to travel to visit my grandkids in Georgia, as well as to see other parts of the United States that I have yet to see. I may even decide to move away from Oklahoma for a change of scenery. At this point I am not very certain on the details but I know I want to expand my spectrum of the world and my knowledge of different cultures, beliefs and ways of life. One of the most important long term goals of mine is to, piece back together my relationship with my family. Growing up my family and I had a great relationship where we saw each other very often as well as would help each other through anything. As life went on everyone’s situations changed either for the better or for the worse and we began to divide. Recently following my mother’s illness we have divided more than ever when we should be pulling together. I would love to bring, my family back together and start anew. I am a firm believer in having a great relationship with your loved ones and pains me to be so estranged from them. I hope to reconnect with my family and start anew as family is one of the greatest structure God ever built. My last and final milestone in my life I hope to achieve is to reach a place in my journey of Christianity where I am 100 percent confident in my knowledge base of the word and my walk with the Lord. I am happy to say that attending Southern Nazarene, where they focus on Character, Culture and Christ, has been one of my greatest benefactors. Sitting classes where we examined my faith and how it pertained to me as a person. Opened my eyes to my faults in my walk and allowed me to see all the growth available. I plan to grow in in eyes of