Persuasive Essay: Why I Chose Psychology

Why I Chose Psychology My cousin Lucas drew me to psychology. It was his struggles that made me want to pursue the career. We were never the closest when we were young, but teenagers are best thing since sliced bread when you are little. He played pretend with us whenever we asked and never complained or tried to weasel his way out of hanging out with us. I looked up to him for a long time. However as years went by everything started to fall apart for him and me. Lucas fell into a depression as a result of bullying and the added stress of his parent’s divorce. For the longest time, no one even noticed. He hid it so well from us claiming tiredness or hormones. The adults never questioned it. The other kids, including me, were too young to

I took my first psychology class and started to learn my special talent for it. I could listen. Yes, I am well aware how ears work, but I mean a different type of listening. I could listen without bias to problems and give my opinion no matter what my standing on the issue. It was because of this that people would sometimes randomly open up to me about the oddest things. My drivers ed teacher, a forty year old man, once opened up to me and explained a problem with his son that I felt like was maybe too private to tell a stranger and all I asked, “is everything okay?” I was not prepared for those floodgates. All my friends will tell me that I really helped them through tough spots in life. One was saved from a lonely depression when I jumped into being her friend after seeing she liked the Maximum Ride series. When she admitted that to me, I felt warm inside. I had done something good and what I had hoped to accomplish when I started out learning psychology in the first place. It was the best feeling ever and it only grew from there. People would really change after being around me for a while. It was not always for the better, but never let that deter me. I was making the difference I wanted to in

It is wrong not to use it to help those who could use someone to listen to him or her about their problems however small and seemingly insignificant to the rest of the world. Everyone deserves to be shown compassion about his or her problems. No one deserves o be brushed aside as not important or less than someone else because your condition isn’t as serious as the others. It doesn’t matter to me if your deep problem is a bad breakup or the fact that you feel that no one on earth could possibly care.

This is why I chose this profession. To listen to the world’s problems, I want to hear them. I want to fix them all even if I know I cannot do it all. I can try at the very least and actually succeed at the very best. Lucas started the fire but my own experiences afterwards fanned it into a fiery passion. I will help in all and any way that I can. I will help the big, the small, the old, the young, the hopeless, the hopeful, the poor, and the rich. This is why I chose