The Turning Points of Life

Everyone experiences what is said to be a “Turning Point” in life. In other words, your current path is altered by a single event or moment. This alteration may be as simple as a move to a new town to a change in personality. Two of my most significant positive “turning points” are attributed to things that happened when I was in happened when I was in my early twenties; meeting my husband and becoming a teacher. When applying Brofenbrenner’s theory of ecological systems; a focus of broad, interconnected influences on human development (Mossler, 2013 Sec. 2.6) to these events, it substantially broadens the realization of how I became the person I am today.
Meeting My Husband
Growing up was not easy in my house; it was not the picture perfect life, actually far from it. Over the years, I became the caretaker versus the child; often left to fend for myself and my brothers, I muddled through many of life’s lessons with no guidance. Following graduation, although I was accepted into college, I was told I would be unable to attend due to financial difficulties. Very soon after this news, I broke up with my high school boyfriend of almost four years. I spent the next two years being a very different person. I started smoking, drinking, staying out until all hours, and was genuinely depressed. That all changed the day my brother had a house party.
Microsystem
One thing I have never broken the rule on is drunk driving. That meant that night the majority of the people stayed at the house that night. One by one, they all woke up and left except for one person who continued to sleep on our couch. He would soon wake up, decide to walk out on the patio and say hello to me, and we would be married two years later. That one eve...

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...ould be to their program. The library is almost as good as Disney Land is to a child for me. Although, I am sure there is a lot to learn, I know that I could do this job and be amazing at it. However, my application is one of many that are sitting in an email box to be reviewed and most likely rejected because of my lack of education. Nowadays, all people see is what is written on a piece of paper. This alone is the drive I need to complete my degree and why I am here.
Overall, there have been many people who have impacted my life in both big and small ways. I have a wonderful husband who supports me in everything I do and I have been given the opportunity to fulfill and alter a dream that was so far out of reach at one time. Becoming that shining star on a piece of paper received in an email is my next goal, my next turning point, and I will get there.