Describe how your personal history, life experiences and cultural identity has shaped your current narrative of what you are today. As an individual, I am shaped by the kind of environment I am exposed to while growing up; either physical or social. As a Nigeria, I am fortunate and privileged to come from a culturally diverse community, when it comes to beliefs, race, and ethnic minorities. An important key is my cultural identity and committing myself to the lifelong practice of self-understanding
whip up all my experiences, life lessons, and insights about counseling and therapy into a one page paper and still manage to imprint my personality upon the page enough that it stands out against the dozens of papers you must sort through. Honestly of the two your job sounds more daunting. Out of all the things I learned getting my B.A in Sociology, learning about human behavior; I think the most important thing I learned to strengthen was my critical thinking skills. To question what I saw, to
A Rich, Full Life Everyone’s interpretation of a full, rich life differs. One person might say that traveling the world or exploring new places is what makes a life full and rich, while another might say that a full, rich life is having great accomplishments or experiencing as many new things as they can. Each person will view the answer to this question differently simply because each person is different. Everyone has grown up with vastly diverse experiences. No two people’s lives are the same
in doing so it is important to take those life skills, knowledge, dispositions, and background experiences to help along the way. In the counseling field there are some guidelines and theories that will help, but nothing that prepares you for what may happen at any moment or any time during the day. It is clear that life definitely throws some unexpected curve balls and that is the same for situations in the field of school counseling. You never know what situation you will run into and in order to
moment in my life that stands out as an especially positive experience is when I graduated high school. The day occurred on June 15, 2015 at the Jiffy Lube live arena stage in my hometown of Manassas, Virginia. The people involved in this positive experience were myself, my mother, father, sister, family friends, my friends, administrators, teachers, and peers. I woke up in the morning around 9:00 am, showered, got dressed packed all of my essentials for my graduation, and drove to one of my friend’s
meaning of life that he discovered during he suffered in concentration camp. He also mentioned that people find meaningful life by creating work, experiencing something, and by the attitude we toward unavoidable suffering. As a young people, I less advanced in life and less enlightened by experience. I can’t image how many painful memory that he had, and I don’t know in what dilemma he found the meaning of lives. Undoubtedly, Frankl noticed the value of his life, and his difficult life experience helped
imaginative; but it must be tough to sit down and tell their own life story. I have to confess that with the same passion I admire them, I cannot help but wonder: what inspired them to write about themselves? How did they start? Did they question the worth of the words as they typed them? Did they judge themselves in the process? How many times did they think about stopping? Did writing about himself or herself
come to a realization in life, with the gift of observation, the situations life has thrown at me has helped me understand what my role here in America is. As a fellow American, I have found purpose in providing help to others when they face the struggles of life I, too, have had to face. As life carries on, my responsibility to America is to use my experiences and gathered wisdom to help others, to teach them, lead them, and inspire them. In consideration of the fact that my statement may appear vague
The variations of my strengths are expressed in many aspects of my daily life. Being a university student is a part of a lifetime experience that adds on to the many aspects in life that molded my identity and characteristics. My desire for success in life is a core strength of mine, because my goal is to achieve success through being determined, and to make sound choices. My journey in life will be influenced by my passion for life. If I am ready every day for the unexpected and unknown, then I
Life is made up of many different experiences, both good and bad. It is through these experiences that we grow and become the person that we are today. Whether in personal life, school life, or work life, we are constantly expanding our knowledge and ability. When one takes the time to look back at all the experiences they have lived through, they can truly appreciate where they have come from and how much they have developed over time. When I reflect on my own experiences in life, education, and