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I have read somewhere that who we are is a product of our choices and our environment. Looking at my life, I think this is true. What I am right now is partly due to the decisions I have made in the past, and partly because of the influences of the environment I live in with the people surrounding me. These factors have affected my life and changed the course of my direction.
For instance, I am back to school right now after dropping out four years ago. I have made this decision to study again, after some choices I made in my life, and what I thought I would like to make out of it for my future.
After finishing high school, I started out college at the University of Massachusetts. But I dropped out after a semester and moved in with my boyfriend of one year. My parents were not quite pleased with this decision. All along, they wanted me to go to a university and have a degree.
My family is not well off and I am the youngest of four children. My mother is our champion to finish our college education. She values education so much that when I was two years old, she went back to college herself. When I was sixteen, she graduated with her Masters degree in Mathematics. Meanwhile, my father supported all of us, working full time in a printing press. He takes pride that all my siblings successfully graduated from University majoring in Mathematics, following my mother’s footsteps.
With my family background, one would think I would start and finish my college straight through. But back then, I suppose I was young and in love, and these were enough reasons for the decision I made to leave school. I do not regret it so far.
While on a hiatus from university, I took a certification course and then worked as a certified nursing assistant. This job somewhat help me figure out what I want to do. It gave me a sense of fulfillment to help others get well, knowing that I have contributed to it in some way. It pointed me to what I want to continue doing.
Now, I am twenty-five years old and engaged to my boyfriend of five years. I am starting to think also about having a family and how life would be. I see how difficult life could be for families with income that could barely support a family, much less to sustain its growth. So, I talked to my fiancé about going back to school with me to become an Occupational Therapist. He was fully supportive of my goal.
Thus, here I am back at the same Community College I was in four years ago. My main concern now is working hard on building up my GPA to qualify for the Occupational Therapy Program, which is highly competitive. I am quite certain this is what I want and am more determined to see it through than when I first started out my college education. I might have taken longer to get around and deciding to get back to college. But all my experiences have been very helpful to me. It made me become the person I am now, and to get a better sense of direction that I have truly decided to take for myself.
But the rest of my life is still ahead of me. I can only imagine what will happen to my future, but can never fully prepare for it. Perhaps, some of the events in my future may be great, or some days may be bad. While I cannot do anything about future events in my life, I am bound to make more choices as these events come along. I can only hope to make the right choices. It would be interesting how my life would unfold from here.
Reference
Nordquist, R. (n.d.). Cause and Effect (Composition). About Education. Retrieved from
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/causeeffect.htm
