Passion is the fire that drives someone to their goals. It is what consumes their mind, body and soul, day in and day out. Passion is ultimate where people find their joy, so I ask myself what is my passion?
To be honest at this point in my life, my passion seems a little sporadic. I have the selfish passions like my friends, eating, sleeping, and shopping. Then I have the unselfish passion like my passion for old people, which is why I volunteer at an old folk’s home, and my passion for children, which is why I teach swimming at a pool. I love to give, and find a huge amount of joy is helping people. It seem like I do not have one definite focus of passion right now, but how I personally feel I will find that passion if through God. I honestly believe that got has a purpose for every human being. In order for us to pursue our passion I believe God creates a love in our heart for what he wants us to do. Since I know I love helping people and love people I believe God’s plan for me is to become a doctor. Ever since I was 2 years old I have wanted to become a doctor, and I have numerous people prophecy over me that I will become one and God has a huge destiny for me. I hope that my love for people and the sick will only grow so I will be able to follow my destiny God has destined over my life.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Baby steps are the way to the future
The unit on perseverance was by far my favorite because I felt I could relate it to my own life the most. I seem to have to curse like talent to be able to procrastinate any type of work, especially school work! In essence my perseverance is lacking. What I have learned in this unit is perseverance is the ability to keep on going when the going gets tough. I am sort of lazy so when I going gets tough I stop going, which is not that strategy I am going to need in life. Therefore to help me to accomplish my goal I am going to have to focus on smaller goals. A more one step at a time strategy. I once heard an interesting analogy that said that no once trips over a mountain; it is the small pebbles they trip over. I found this very relevant and inspiring to my life because I know when I fail at something it is not the entire thing as a whole, no it is for one small point where I get caught up. Therefore by divided my goal into small steps I can realize the small steps and focus on them complete, hopefully ensuring that I will be able to accomplish the small and in due time the entire goal itself. Baby steps are the way to the future.
Courage
Courage can fall into a number of different categories including physical and moral courage. To me to be successful in life you must have both types of courage, mostly the moral courage though. Moral courage to me means the courage to fight for what you believe in and persevere for your dreams. It is the ability to know within yourself that the outcome is bigger than the risk. An example would be mother Teresa taking the risk to save all those sick, and having the possibility to lead them to 
Jesus, even when she was risking her own physical health. In my own life I know I have to learn to take risks. I want to become a doctor and that is not going to be an easy road. I could have the possibility of working in a clothing story and making a low income that would be sufficient for me. That would be my no courage option. Yet if I do take the courage to push forward for what I really want I know I will not be missing out on my destiny. The courage I will need to become what I want will be courage to believe in myself to persevere and do all the hard work. Courage to me kind of relates to perseverance except courage is the initial step to doing something difficult, while perseverance is the continuing on of it.
Jesus, even when she was risking her own physical health. In my own life I know I have to learn to take risks. I want to become a doctor and that is not going to be an easy road. I could have the possibility of working in a clothing story and making a low income that would be sufficient for me. That would be my no courage option. Yet if I do take the courage to push forward for what I really want I know I will not be missing out on my destiny. The courage I will need to become what I want will be courage to believe in myself to persevere and do all the hard work. Courage to me kind of relates to perseverance except courage is the initial step to doing something difficult, while perseverance is the continuing on of it.
Who I Am?
In my opinion it is who I am friends with is closely linked to my identity. Identity is a number of things to me, it is how I view life,
what I like to do, my heritage and traditions, it is what I choose to look like, my style and the way I project myself. What I have really notice is that my identity seems to be very closely nit to my friends. We all in a sense dress similar, we all have similar interests, and we all come from a similar heritage. One thing that one of us would find weird, most likely the other would as well. I even notice that we all talk very similar. One time I started to say the world “gnarly” and soon enough we were all saying it.
The scary part of being close with friends and having similar identities is that different qualities also rub off on each other. For example if one friend has a very negative quality, I believe that others pick up on that, and begins to be negative too. Therefore I have become more aware when choosing who I am friends with, to pick friends who will lift me up.
A scripture is the bible relates to this by saying “bad company corrupt good morals” So if I choose friends with bad behavior like drinking and drugs, it is a biblical principal that sooner or later I will start to follow the path of my friends.
In order to correct this I can find the ultimate friend in God, and learn to mimic his nature, because it is perfect.
what I like to do, my heritage and traditions, it is what I choose to look like, my style and the way I project myself. What I have really notice is that my identity seems to be very closely nit to my friends. We all in a sense dress similar, we all have similar interests, and we all come from a similar heritage. One thing that one of us would find weird, most likely the other would as well. I even notice that we all talk very similar. One time I started to say the world “gnarly” and soon enough we were all saying it.
The scary part of being close with friends and having similar identities is that different qualities also rub off on each other. For example if one friend has a very negative quality, I believe that others pick up on that, and begins to be negative too. Therefore I have become more aware when choosing who I am friends with, to pick friends who will lift me up.
A scripture is the bible relates to this by saying “bad company corrupt good morals” So if I choose friends with bad behavior like drinking and drugs, it is a biblical principal that sooner or later I will start to follow the path of my friends. In order to correct this I can find the ultimate friend in God, and learn to mimic his nature, because it is perfect.
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