Have you ever come to a point in your life when you thought that you were taking the wrong major? Growing up I thought it would be easy for me to know what I want to be in my life. I had various characters of myself in my mind wearing various outfits like a suit with stiletto heels and having business meetings with my peer workers. Also, sometimes with the influence of my parents and friends, I would imagine myself wearing a scrub and stethoscope around my neck which I think was nonetheless a costume with powers to save people life, like a superhero costumes.
With all those confusion regarding my major, I finally decided who I wanted to be and it was not an easy decision. I desired to be a very cheerful nurse where I wanted to give needy people a helping hand. The first time in the journey of choosing my major, I wanted to become a business woman. In 9th grade, most of my friends were more leaned towards science, and for me science was always so scary and confusing. I used to think science field was only for smart people so I started showing more interest in accounting and financing.
As time passed by, I started to take part in national and international student quality conventions where I was supposed to discuss the problems incurring in school, finding ways to solve it, and presenting it with other different schools. While I used to present the problem in front of a whole lot of other students and teacher, I thought that I was doing some kind of business where we all are working together to solve an issue and it felt good. I got more inspired of being a business woman during my school period.
Later when I entered my college year, my major was business studies where I actually acquired more knowledge about business world. I had an accounting teacher who was as skinny as a stick and most of all I couldn’t understand what he used to teach me so I had hard time having good grades in the subject and I thought I wasn’t good enough for business field either. The day when my brain showed a little bit of interest on studying nursing was when I got a call from my sister’s school mentioning that she had fainted. I rushed into her school like a cheetah and saw her lying down in the couch.
Seeing her in such a condition was terrible feeling and I was hopeless because I didn’t knew what steps I should take to wake her up. And then I thought if only I was doing nursing, I would have known how to make her feel better. In 2014, I moved to the United States and got a commercial job which I thought was perfect field where I wanted to work whole my life. Slowly, the work started to get little bit too over whelming and a lot pressurizing to me which made me feel like business world is not my thing. In the meantime, a very bad incident happened in my life where my mom was taken to an emergency room in the midnight.
As I was new in the states, the hospital policy and everything was obscure to me. I had a very hard time finding ways to take my mother to the emergency room. Being the eldest child in the family, I had responsibility to take care of my family but I had no single idea regarding the procedures that worked in the hospital of the United States. I was so unknown about the health related field that I couldn’t understand what was happening to my mom and neither could I comprehend what the doctor was trying to tell us about her problem.
All I knew was the doctor told me that my mom is fine but after couple of months she started to face the same problem which was regarding her knee. Time went by and we kept on ignoring my mom’s problem thinking it would get better if she takes some pain killer. Seeing my mom working so hard and coming home complaining about her knee problem left me helpless. So I got her insurance and found a primary doctor who suggested her to see a knee specialist soon. The time when the specialist told us that my mom is in serious need of knee surgery was the time when I thought I was taking a wrong major.
If only I was taking a nursing program, my mom wouldn’t have had to go through the surgery procedure. So I thought of becoming a nurse and helping my family with their medical problems. During the time of surgery, the nurses were really helpful to my mom and were taking good care of her. I imagined myself being in their position and helping those patients and receiving virtue from them. After the surgery, we went to therapist where there were a couple of nurse who were really pretty and well known about their job. Those helpful nurses also inspired me to become a successful nurse despite of my weakness in science field.
After what happened to my mom, I wanted to keep track of my family members so I forced my father and my siblings to visit our primary doctor once in a while to stay updated with their health. During the visit of my dad with our general practitioner, he was suggested to see a cancer specialist. If I wouldn’t have forced my father to see the doctor he would have just risked his life. With all those events happening in my life I wanted to help out not only my family, also assist other people who are seeking help related to their health by becoming who I am, a nurse.