Who am I? That is a very deep question. I think the only way I can answer that truthfully is by saying, I do not know exactly who I am, but I know who I want to become. I want to become a well rounded individual, someone who everyone likes and looks up too. I want to be someone my family can be proud of.…
It’s my future that I was affecting, no one else’s. I haven’t completely gone through the final stage, identity achievement, but I’m starting to. I am trying to figure out what exactly I want to do with my future but I’m not 100% there yet (Rathus,…
When asked to define myself in one paper, I find it hard to show the details that I want to in the right light. When asked about my future after high school, I also have a hard time describing everything I want to get done because there are far too many things to name. The quote “ _____” (i want to be everyone and do everything and there isn’t enough life to do it all in) describes me to a tee, and I believe this college is the place I could do this in. Being a shy person for most of my life, many things were difficult for me. Specifically, last summer I had the opportunity for a summer job.…
“Shes coming back right?” a baffled 7 year old asks in response to the appalling news of her mother’s death. A vibrant imagination is accompanied by a crushing pain of reality that trails behind it ; I discovered this when I heard the words “no” . 10 years later, that conversation lingers in my head and holds not a cacophonous nor euphonious sound, but instead holds the neutral tone of reality, an alarm . As routine , at 6a.m., I hear a melodious alarm followed by the pitter-patter of my aunt who is getting ready for work.…
I am someone who smiles Someone always telling jokes to make sure no one thinks something is wrong So no one suspects a thing when they see my smile I am someone who fixes the feelings of those whose hearts are shattering like pieces of glass I am someone who loves to dress up and wear makeup so no one sees how truly I am From the bags from staying up at night to the red from crying, both under the concealer Tears behind my eyeshadow-covered eyelids Cracks underneath my red lipstick And the pain within the mouth that contains whitened teeth…
Conclusion: No matter what you do, no matter who you become, make sure you are always one thing. Make sure you are happy. Make sure you are living your life as you wish, not bound by what others may think of you or what you may think of yourself. Live your life always reaching towards your goal and know that failure is not the end. Live your life sharing this happiness you feel with everyone you meet along the way and know that, no matter where you go, we all carry a bit of that energy with us.…
I can assure you that I will amount to great things in life, but I have accepted far less that what I can accomplish in many cases. I sometimes believe that people should just lower their expectations than me having to try so hard to try and meet the requirements everyone…
I’m the product of my beautiful and rich heritage. And just like my grandma, I’m a confident, strong-willed, and college bound young lady ready to define my place in this world. I will be the bright light traversing the halls of academia in pursuit of knowledge to compliment who I am and more importantly, redefine societal labels including my…
This dilemma proved to me that I’m in charge of my success and anything I want I have to work hard after.…
In high school, I struggled to find myself. I struggled to find what I was good at, and what I loved to do. My first two years, I had convinced myself that I was an athlete. I dedicated a majority of my time to practicing volleyball and softball, only two realize at the end of sophomore year, I was not playing to please myself. I was playing to maintain the illusion that this was something I wanted since I had been playing for 12 years.…
There are a couple of obstacles that have played a major role in me becoming who I am today. I've had naysayers trying to negatively influence my thoughts, and crush my dreams by saying that said I will never amount to anything, or that I should give up on my dreams and get realistic with my goals. A couple years ago I was a completely different person. I was out of shape physically, my academic performance was very poor, and I had a terrible attitude. I improved greatly in athletics and my academic career.…
A person with opportunity is most likely to accept it than deny it. This is an opportunity that will help send me in the path that I love and wonder about every day. Many years in my education I wondered what will happen in the future and how my life will be. Now as I grow older I notice many talents within me that I will like to release into the world. I love to help people, understand how things work and what is the science and math behind it.…
But then I stop to think, how hard will it be to get there how many obstacles will I have to jump to achieve greatness in my career,…
I can’t do this – the four words a student said to me on my second day of teaching. Here, the irony is that I think of these four words from time to time. From my childhood, I remember telling everyone that “I want to be a doctor when I grow up”. I don’t recall how I learn such answer, but I know for sure that it was my parents who opened the door to my imagination. There were many times when I asked myself if I would follow the goal, mostly because I was in a dilemma of figuring out if such goal was set by myself or by my parents.…
I am not just myself. I am not just one among the masses, one in a sea of seven billion, one in an infinity of complexity—far from it. I am a library, containing everything, indeed everything, that has touched my life, no matter how small and trivial or how big and traumatic. I am salvation. Physical, spiritual, mental salvation I bring.…