paths can be positive or negative and can potentially lead to good or bad. Over the past five years I have
found meaning and purpose to my life. I have chosen many paths that have been positive for building
myself in the past five years. The evolution of my life can be described by many theories. Many roles,
such as family, culture, gender, race, and religion have help to guide my path for my development and
growth. Often times I ponder on my past and think of events that I could have change and why I would
have changed them. Then I remember, had I changed the past and chose different paths of life, I would
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This recognition really makes me feel good about myself. I am building self-respect
and the respect of others. Finally, there are the needs for self-actualization, which motivate the person
to fulfill his or her own potential above and beyond the lower needs (McAdams, 2009). This is the top of
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the pyramid. Self-actualization is my overall goal. After completing college and upon getting a good job, I
believe that I will feel self-actualization.
Throughout my life, different roles helped to shape me into the person that I am today. These
roles involve religion, race, culture, family, and gender. I was born and raised a Catholic. I married into
the Lutheran church. Today I just simply state that I believe in God and I am Christian. I exercise the sign
of the cross before and after prayer. This would be a physical sign that I am or was Catholic. I do not
believe that my personality was shaped around my childhood religion because I do not agree with many
views of the church. My race and gender only played a small part into my personality. I do not believe
that race or sex makes a person who they are. I do not discriminate and I believe in equality. A …show more content…
There are bits and pieces of my life that was shaped
by religion, race, gender, culture, and family, but for the most part, I am my own person simply by loving
life and working hard.
Looking back on my life, there are several times I would love to have changed a path that I had
gone down. The path that I frequently ponder how my life would have been different is if I would have
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saved my virginity for marriage. I made the decision in high school to have sex and as a result, I became
a teenage mother at the age of seventeen. I love my son but I also wonder how my life would have been
had I not had a baby so young. I believe that if I had not had a baby in high school, I would have went
away to college at a traditional campus. Chances are I would have not met my loving husband, and then
I would have not had my other three beautiful children. I believe that everything happens for a reason.
The paths that we choose in life shape us into the person that we are today. My choices have shaped
my personality into a strong, stubborn, loving, caring, and independent person. This person is a