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There have been two events that have significantly influenced me to be the person I am today. The initial event was my parent’s divorce. The actual divorce didn’t impact me immensely. What affected me tremendously was whom my dad decided to get married to later on. The second event that influenced my life was attending church.
When my parent’s divorced it didn’t bother me too much in the beginning. My dad received custody of me and he was the parent that allowed me to do whatever I wished, so I saw the arrangement as satisfactory. I saw my mom every other weekend. This agreement suited me just fine until my dad remarried. My dad got remarried when I was in 3rd grade. His new wife appeared decent enough in the beginning, but as time went on I began to disapprove of her. She had two daughters; both were older than I was. My stepmom never thought of my brother and I as equals when her children were involved. Her children were always placed above us. One of her daughters, Dayna, was only a couple years older than me, so I tried getting along with her. One day I was playing cards with her in her room. When her mom saw me she told me to get out of Dayna’s room for no reason.
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I spent every spring and summer in middle school doing mission work and community service. I loved the opportunity that it gave me to build relationships and share my beliefs with people I didn’t know. Little did I know that this would pave the way for a life-changing experience that I would encounter one day. Each spring my church would host a missionary event called “The Ignite Project.” I felt an urge to join the group, recognizing that it was a calling to profess my faith in Jesus. These mission trips helped me to go out
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Each Sunday different ladies in our church would alternate teaching, some I loathed more than others, and every so often I got to have my own grandmother. Eventually, I was old enough to join our church’s youth group, which is where I became more involved in the church than ever. As I was becoming of age to enter youth group, a lot of the teens there were no longer teens so they moved into regular sermon. As a result of this, in a way, it was my duty to step up, put my best foot forward, and pull out my leadership abilities. I took on leadership roles in becoming a Sunday night nursery worker, member of the adult choir, and even becoming the children’s choir director.
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As the famous American poet named Carl Sandburg once remarked, “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. These unforeseen incidents had also made my life fascinating, which led to my presence. The majority of these significant episodes were not under my control, yet they have molded me into a unique individual I am today. My life chapters have left a profound impact in my life, such as descending from a revered king, my parents becoming American citizens, and the birth of my second brother Kaushal.
It was a Tuesday afternoon and I was just getting to my psychology class and as usual I was chit chatting with my neighbors in class, Cpl Christie and Fausnight about the things that each of us did this weekend. Just when I had finished talking to Kara (Fausnight) about her weekend our psychology teacher Dr. Douglas walks in. As she is walking in I in my peppy self- personality ask how her weekend went. Dr. Douglas then proceeded to tell me that it was “none of my business”…….maybe she was having a bad day or was really stressed out or maybe in fact it was “none of my business”. She also told me that there was a certain thing called boundaries and that I needed to find out what that was. I felt dumbfounded to say the least. I’ve always been a real social person. Pretty much striking a conversation with anyone. So I was brain storming the other day and I was wondering about what to write my paper about. Just then the previous scenario came to mind and I figured I could intertwine me and how the influences that I’ve had throughout my life have influenced me and made me the outgoing, friendly, social person that I am. I’ll attempt to do this by using Erickson’s stages of development (Myers, 2005). O.k. we will start by looking at the infancy stage. Where an infant learns either to Trust or Mistrust people. I don’t know how much is true but in talking to my parents they told me that ever since the day I was born I was such a crybaby.
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