Importance Of Commitment Essay

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Learning to Value Commitment Through My Fathers Influence
Commitment is the base of achieving all of your goals, dreams, and having success in any relationship. My commitments have always been important to me ever since I was a little girl. When I was about seven years old, my father began to teach me the importance in keeping the commitments that you make. My father’s lessons started out small such as carrying out a promise I made. Then when I got older, his lessons in commitments got more in depth. My father helped me through trials where my commitments conflicted with each other and he was there to encourage me to keep going when I was ready to give up. After my father’s influence, I can reflect on my experiences throughout life and say …show more content…

Now that I am older I believe that this lesson taught me the base value of a commitment to someone and why it is important to keep them. I learned from this the importance of commitment, but soon there would be other problems with commitments of mine. In fact, I would have to learn how to react when one of my commitments came in conflict with some of my other values. The biggest example of this was the time I decided to shadow a doctor I had admired for so long, little did I know though, our values were very different from each other and I would have to decide whether I wanted that to affect my commitment to be a part of the medical field when I got …show more content…

The little girl’s face looked white as a ghost and she continued to gasp between her deep cough. She couldn’t breathe and every chance she’d get to talk; she would pull on her mom’s shirt crying that her chest hurt. After the doctor spoke with the parents and gave the diagnosis, we walked out of the room and I could hear the little girl still coughing. The door shut hard, and as I looked away, I couldn’t help but say “Poor girl, I will be praying for her. No three-year-old should have to go through that.” The doctor that I had looked up to all my life looked at me with her eyes big as if she were shocked and said to me “Why would you pray for her, that isn’t going to help her. Pneumonia is an awful infection and the only thing that is going to help her is a cure proven by science.” At that point, it was my eyes that got big as the doctor walked into her

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