The Life of Victoria Gaston
Everyone has his or her own story to tell, and I’m going to tell you about mine. Living in the life of Victoria Rose Gaston can have its struggles, but it also has some amazing, life changing moments too. It can range from breaking your arm, pinky, and elbow to traveling to a third world country for a mission trip. No matter what crazy things have happened in my life, it has helped to shape me into the person I am today. From my early life to adolescence my life has been one heck of a ride, and I’m hoping that even my future will hold some great things for me. On September 22nd, 1997 around 12:34, Victoria Rose Gaston was brought into this world. Born at Carle hospital in Urbana Illinois nine minutes after …show more content…
Moving to Iowa in the 7th grade was one of the scariest things that I ever had to do, but it has such an impact on my life I am glad that I did it. When I was in Illinois I never really cared about who I was as a person, I just wanted my friends to accept me so I said and did what every the told me to do. When I moved to Iowa I knew that I could start over and be who I really wanted to be, but I didn’t exactly know what that was. I needed to identify who I was and what I wanted in life. Finding your identity is important because you are figuring out who you are and what you stand for (Rathus, 2010). I’ve gone through three of James Marcias four categories of adolescents identity status. First, I went thought identity moratorium was when I was in Illinois and I didn’t want to think about anything to do with who I was or any important life questions. Then, when I came to Iowa I went thought the identity foreclosure and joined sports just like all of my peers. In the beginning I wasn’t 100% for it, but I knew I needed to try it to see if that’s who I wanted to be. Finally, I’ve been in the identity diffusion stage during my sophomore year in high school. I didn’t care about my future and what would happen. I took the easiest classes that I could because I just wanted to get by highs school as easily as I could without trying. Then, I had teachers my junior year tell me how important last year and this year was to my future I decided I needed to care because if I didn’t, no one else would. 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,
Everyone has his or her own story to tell, and I’m going to tell you about mine. Living in the life of Victoria Rose Gaston can have its struggles, but it also has some amazing, life changing moments too. It can range from breaking your arm, pinky, and elbow to traveling to a third world country for a mission trip. No matter what crazy things have happened in my life, it has helped to shape me into the person I am today. From my early life to adolescence my life has been one heck of a ride, and I’m hoping that even my future will hold some great things for me. On September 22nd, 1997 around 12:34, Victoria Rose Gaston was brought into this world. Born at Carle hospital in Urbana Illinois nine minutes after …show more content…
Moving to Iowa in the 7th grade was one of the scariest things that I ever had to do, but it has such an impact on my life I am glad that I did it. When I was in Illinois I never really cared about who I was as a person, I just wanted my friends to accept me so I said and did what every the told me to do. When I moved to Iowa I knew that I could start over and be who I really wanted to be, but I didn’t exactly know what that was. I needed to identify who I was and what I wanted in life. Finding your identity is important because you are figuring out who you are and what you stand for (Rathus, 2010). I’ve gone through three of James Marcias four categories of adolescents identity status. First, I went thought identity moratorium was when I was in Illinois and I didn’t want to think about anything to do with who I was or any important life questions. Then, when I came to Iowa I went thought the identity foreclosure and joined sports just like all of my peers. In the beginning I wasn’t 100% for it, but I knew I needed to try it to see if that’s who I wanted to be. Finally, I’ve been in the identity diffusion stage during my sophomore year in high school. I didn’t care about my future and what would happen. I took the easiest classes that I could because I just wanted to get by highs school as easily as I could without trying. Then, I had teachers my junior year tell me how important last year and this year was to my future I decided I needed to care because if I didn’t, no one else would. 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,