Personal Statement: Pediatric Physical Therapy

My story began in a small city in China, where I was abandoned by my birth parents when I was three days old. Despite my beginning, my fate shifted when I was adopted seven months later by a family who has taught me that any dream is possible. They pushed me to learn and develop to my furthest potential, but I have still experienced many hardships, which in turn, has taught me valuable lessons. Malnourishment, accompanied with not being held for the first seven months of my life, made the first few years of physical development harder than anyone originally thought. Therefore, I was assigned to a physical therapist who improved my motor skills tremendously, and allowed me to have a new look on life. From then on, pediatric physical therapy has been a passion of mine and …show more content…
The people you look up to in life who are considered to be lucky to have ended up where they are, are not what I would call lucky at all. Behind the scenes, they pushed themselves every day to make the right choices allowing them to be as successful as they are now. There is a vast amount of examples of people proving that with hard work, anything is possible. My father is one of these examples. Going through the death of a mother at a young age would make any other child feel helpless and as if life was over at that time, but my father knew he was destined for more. He completed high school and then four years of college, but never acquired his bachelor’s degree. Some may say he was “lucky” to obtain a job which paid more than minimum wage without a college degree; however, I would say it came from hard work. Beginning in assembling, he gradually worked his way up with strong dedication to his job, leading to his current position, a tooling planner. Seeing this great example in my own life of someone who did not rely on luck to succeed would allow me to disagree with the notion of “Luck is the residue of