Personal Narrative: My Future Veterinarian

Just like any student, I often jumped back and forth on my decisions when it came to my future career as a student. Some days I wanted to be a veterinarian, some days I wanted to be a writer. I would usually just brush it off; leave it for the future Brianna to figure it out. The problem with that, though, was that I was almost halfway through with my junior year of high school. I knew that I had to start looking at colleges and deciding a major. People were asking me left and right what it was that I was going to do with my life and I didn’t have an answer for them. Eventually I just gave up. I assumed that it would just come to me. Luckily it did. One day I was simply watching videos on my computer after school. I came across one that was named “Junk Mail.” What first intrigued me about it was that it was about an elderly person. I have always had special relationships with older people, and they have a special part in my heart. The video was a short documentary about an elderly woman named Mary who was 98 years old. It began by showing the older woman tediously ripping pieces of paper into shreds. After ripping them into as small of pieces as she could, she …show more content…
Never had I felt so torn and affected by a simple video. I was saddened by the thought of older people with no one to take care of them, and even worse a family who won’t help or support them. I thought about what it would be like for my grandparents if they had no one to take care of them when they were older, and I felt terrible. I also felt a sense of responsibility for those who had no one to help them or even talk to them. I thought that there was really nothing I could do for the woman; I didn’t know her or how to help people like her. However, I wanted to learn. I knew that I had a passion for helping the elderly, but I never really knew what to do with it. It was then that I decided that I wanted to pursue a career in geriatric