The future is scary; you’re expected to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life, move out of your parents house, go to school or get a job, find a life partner, and create a family of your own. Trying to figure out what you want to be as an adult in just a matter of four years is tough. Going to school, having a job, homework, a social life? Managing to have all of those is nearly impossible to me at this point but somehow I manage. I’m currently a junior in high school, the toughest grade level of them all. Often times I find myself asking, “What do you want to be when you grow up? Where are you going to go to school?” This question has been ringing in my mind since freshman year and I am still not certain what my future
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It was around middle school when she began to fall to peer pressure. She had lost her virginity at the short age of 13, began smoking cigarettes and weed, and also began drinking with some of her other troubled “friends.” About five years later that the age of 18, she found out that she was pregnant, because of this she would have to change her whole life and I believe that she went through an identity crisis at that time. “An identity crisis is a turning point in a person’s development when the person examines his or her values and makes or changes decisions about life roles (Rathus, 2010, p. 316).” Identity crisis’s often arise during the adolescent years, A psychologist by the name of James Marcia studied the ways that teens deal with commitment and cope with their stresses. From this he concluded that there were four categories of identity statuses, which were reaction patterns or processes. Throughout the years, adolescents move through the categories, not typically staying in one. The one that I believed my sister moved to after the news was the identity achievement stage. In the identity achievement stage adolescents have coped with the crisis and have explored their options (Rathus, 2010, p. 317). After finding out she was pregnant she stopped smoking, stopped drinking, and researched what would be best for her baby. Eventually she decided that she would …show more content…
I am able to take the experiences from my life and the experiences of my family members and make the best decision for myself. My mistakes from the past and theirs have helped me learn and grow into the person that I am today. Without those experiences I would never learn between right and wrong and how to think before I act. Struggles don’t make you a weak person, it’s what you do with those struggles that determine your weakness because you can either run from them or pretend like they aren’t there, or you can do what I do and take them as they are and learn from the past. Struggles are what push me to want to
It was around middle school when she began to fall to peer pressure. She had lost her virginity at the short age of 13, began smoking cigarettes and weed, and also began drinking with some of her other troubled “friends.” About five years later that the age of 18, she found out that she was pregnant, because of this she would have to change her whole life and I believe that she went through an identity crisis at that time. “An identity crisis is a turning point in a person’s development when the person examines his or her values and makes or changes decisions about life roles (Rathus, 2010, p. 316).” Identity crisis’s often arise during the adolescent years, A psychologist by the name of James Marcia studied the ways that teens deal with commitment and cope with their stresses. From this he concluded that there were four categories of identity statuses, which were reaction patterns or processes. Throughout the years, adolescents move through the categories, not typically staying in one. The one that I believed my sister moved to after the news was the identity achievement stage. In the identity achievement stage adolescents have coped with the crisis and have explored their options (Rathus, 2010, p. 317). After finding out she was pregnant she stopped smoking, stopped drinking, and researched what would be best for her baby. Eventually she decided that she would …show more content…
I am able to take the experiences from my life and the experiences of my family members and make the best decision for myself. My mistakes from the past and theirs have helped me learn and grow into the person that I am today. Without those experiences I would never learn between right and wrong and how to think before I act. Struggles don’t make you a weak person, it’s what you do with those struggles that determine your weakness because you can either run from them or pretend like they aren’t there, or you can do what I do and take them as they are and learn from the past. Struggles are what push me to want to