What I Want To Be When I Grow Up Essay

All my life people have asked me what I want to be when I grow up. I am 19 going on 20, and I am literally just beginning to figure it out. See the thing is people expect you to know exactly what you want to be, when you are going to do it, and how you are going to do it- before you even get into college! It is crazy, and when I think back to my elementary, middle and high school years I can tell that that is definitely not what I was thinking about. What I can remember is going through each Halloween dressed up as different characters, from various movies and different professions, and being asked, “is that what you want to be when you grow up?” Year after year I would say “no”, “I do not know”, or “maybe”. Finally, one year I had to tell some little old lady, from church, that “no, I did not want to be a cowboy when I grew up,” but things change. As previously mentioned I am 19 going on 20 and I am just beginning to figure out what it is exactly that I want to be when I “grow up”. At the beginning of this semester, I started an internship, with my church, as “Youth Intern and Assistant Director of Middle School Youth Ministries.” My main affiliation is with the youth of the congregation ages 6th – 8th grade, and so far, it has been great. I grew up in the church filling leadership positions all through middle school and high school, so …show more content…
Most hospitals, in the U.S., have a Chaplain, so why would certain medical corporations, like the RMDH, not have them? I began to study the benefits of having a Chaplain or minister in a pediatric environment, and in my research, I found an article titled: “Doctors Discussing Religion and Spirituality: A Systematic Literature Review”. It states “spiritual and religious coping is essential and very important for patients in times of personal crisis,” so, again, I asked myself why wouldn’t the RMDH provide it?