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Southern University | Who AM I | FCSC 481 | | L’Asia George | 1/20/2016 |

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Who am I? That’s a question most people have a difficult time answering. When I think of this question it brings Alice in Wonderland to mind; the scene when the caterpillar asked her “Who are you?” As a child I didn’t really get concept of the deeper meaning. He was trying to get her to think because, as you know she found herself in an unfamiliar place. In most cases, that’s when the real you come on the scene. I know if someone would have asked me this question three years ago I couldn’t have answered correctly. I would have given them the typical respond such as, “I am the proud daughter of”, “I am from”, etc. Afterwards they will still have not knowledge of who I am. In order for anyone to answer properly they will have to truly know themselves, and for awhile I didn’t. It wasn’t until last year that I discovered myself. College is the time youngest people have this epiphany. The journey getting there wasn’t easy. I had to go through a season of what most church folk call a “stripping”, which means losing everything that was familiar to you. There is nothing about me that is the same from the inside and out including my environment. It started when I graduate high school. I didn’t have any specific plans for myself; I just knew the next step was college. I didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to choose for a concentration so, I picked the normal nursing. It was pretty easy decision considering my family has a strong medical background. For awhile, I felt I made the right choice seemly on how well I was thriving but, the only I thing I was missing was the passion. Nursing is definitely the type of career you have to have an absolute love for and I didn’t! That’s when the process of me finding myself begun spring of 2012; the second semester of my sophomore year. I’ve

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