When you gave this assignment I could not resist the temptation to analyze myself instead of another character. I gave myself an entire weekend just to read over the class notes and think about me; about my lifespan. I have learned to take life as it comes. I really never take the time to say what I want or take the lead to my own road of happiness. I would always try to do what my parents told me to do. I stumbled my way out when trying to reach my own goals. Maybe it’s all been because I have fallen into the wrong socioemotional attachments as an infant. Probably it’s the parenting style I have received and maturation age bouncing off while trying to settle for my identity. Maybe even along with all the problems of my past I’m ruining relationships
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It’s pointless trying to plan out ahead of time. For the longest time I was stuck in the moratorium identity stage, but I have learned to pick up the small pieces of me and taken for granted all my past mistakes to reach the identity achievement stage. (Identity Handout) I have grown older, not fully wise, at least not yet. I look at past mistakes and see that I want to make my life work efficiently. (Cognitive Development in Adulthood objectives) I started college thinking I was going to become an accountant. Why? Because that was my mom’s wish for me, she wanted me to make good money in life. After few months in college I decided I wanted to be a nurse that is why I took intro to psychology. Becoming a nurse wasn’t my dream either; it was my dad’s dream to have a daughter to take care of him when he was an elder person. I’m still working on determining what I want to do in life. I always dreamed of being the judge in the courthouse and saying “Case dismissed.” Therefore I’ll be taking introduction to law next semester and work things from there. I wasted a year taking classes I didn’t need, but it’s okay because I learned a lot from them. I also know it’s just the beginning of a successful road to my happy life. No matter where I’m in life, there’s always something new to learn
It’s pointless trying to plan out ahead of time. For the longest time I was stuck in the moratorium identity stage, but I have learned to pick up the small pieces of me and taken for granted all my past mistakes to reach the identity achievement stage. (Identity Handout) I have grown older, not fully wise, at least not yet. I look at past mistakes and see that I want to make my life work efficiently. (Cognitive Development in Adulthood objectives) I started college thinking I was going to become an accountant. Why? Because that was my mom’s wish for me, she wanted me to make good money in life. After few months in college I decided I wanted to be a nurse that is why I took intro to psychology. Becoming a nurse wasn’t my dream either; it was my dad’s dream to have a daughter to take care of him when he was an elder person. I’m still working on determining what I want to do in life. I always dreamed of being the judge in the courthouse and saying “Case dismissed.” Therefore I’ll be taking introduction to law next semester and work things from there. I wasted a year taking classes I didn’t need, but it’s okay because I learned a lot from them. I also know it’s just the beginning of a successful road to my happy life. No matter where I’m in life, there’s always something new to learn