My Vocation I consider myself to be a very happy person because there is a real vocation in my life. I feel that I have a psychological and spiritual need to become a doctor, a cardiologist. I am sure that helping people with heart problems, conducting open-heart surgeries, etc. will bring great sense to my life and will make me a truly happy person. Becoming a cardiologist is not just a matter of my good career or personal achievements it has been a dream ever since I was a little girl. I have never met my grandfather, who died 3 months before I was born, at the age of just 50. While I was growing up, everybody was telling me all the wonderful things about this person, and I became extremely sorry I never met him.
I found out that my granddad died of a heart attack and I started to think that if I were a heart doctor, I could have helped people like him, I could have saved this and other lives. Through my personal tragedy I realized how difficult it is to loose the ones we love and how important it is to have people who can help. This is why I am studying to be a doctor, a cardiologist. There have been many wnderful bks written n the subject f persnal vcatins in recent years, but few have brught tgether persnal calling and scial cnscience in a way that guides us nt nly t ur wn persnal missin in life, but t a realizatin f the imprtance f that missin in the larger cntext f sciety. In A Sacred Vice is Calling: Persnal Vcatin and Scial Cnscience, Jhn Neafsey succeeds in weaving the tw cncepts tgether thrugh an explratin f bth the persnal and scietal challenges we face in areas such as truth, cmpassin, suffering and cnscience. In explring first int the prcess f persnal discernment, Neafsey discusses the necessity f becming a listener t ur wn hearts. He encurages us, especially in Chapter 4, t live as if the truth were really true; t find an authentic vice inside f us that may have been buried beneath the avalanche f messages we have received in ur lives t act in sme ther way.
The Essay on Alice Walker Life One Person
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self The narrative "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self", represents the specific story from Alice Walker's autobiography, which had a great impact on her life. The story emphasizes how low-self esteem can effect person's life. Alice Walker used to be a cute little girl at the age of six. At six, she already memorized an Easter speech. She was pride of ...
The authr says: the false self develps during childhd ut f fear that nes actual emtinal reality is unacceptable, ut f cncerns that nes parents r family r culture cannt r will nt tlerate r accept wh ne actually is. It feels emtinally dangerus t be neself.The search fr the true self necessarily invlves effrts t remember what nes true feelings nce were, r t recgnize and feel what they are right nw. In Chapter 6, Visin: The quest fr a wrthy dream, Neafsey recunts the visin quest f Native American healer and scial activist Lenard Crw Dg, wh recalls a visinary experience in which an eagle says t him, I give yu a pwer, nt t use fr yurself, but fr yur peple. Crw Dgs visin, Neafsey says, reminds us that seeking a visin fr ur life is nt abut us, but abut hw living true t that visin becmes f benefit t all f humanity. Another meaningful book that I really enjoyed is the one by Parker Palmer Let Your Life Speak. The author spells out really important things, he explains the concept of vocation just the way I understand it for myself.
I agree with what Palmer says: today I understand vocation quite differently–not as a goal to be achieved but as a gift to be received. Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice “out there” calling me to become something I am not. It comes from a voice “in here” calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.(Palmer, pp.22-36) Palmer also tells about his Journey into Darkness and I very much can relate my own life experience to that. Even though I am only 19 years old, I have already had my own Journey into Darkness. I am privileged to have well-educated and successful people as my parents and I have never worried about my future.
The Essay on Life In Prison Voices From The Field
Life in Prison - Behind a Convict's Eyes Crystal Fisher Introduction This paper is about the book "Behind a Convict's Eyes" by K. C. Carceral. This book was written by a young man who enters prison on a life sentence and describes the world around him. Life in prison is a subculture of its own, this subculture has its own society, language and cast system. The book describes incidents that have ...
Growing up in a well provided for family and having everything I ever desired, I became quite a spoilt child. I have had some troubles with alcohol and drugs, which led to problems at school, when my grades dropped and I even stopped attending classes. I suffered from depression and at that time it seemed like there is no way out of that. I tried to commit a suicide and that is how enlightenment came. Being so close to loosing my life, I realized I wanted to live because I had things worthwhile living for. One of those things, I am sure, is my vocation being a cardiologist. Remembering my grandfather and why he died reminded me of what I always wanted to do with my life and brought me a new purpose, a new incentive.
I now am consistent with my goal and will work extremely hard to become the person I always wanted, because now I am more sure than ever that cardiology is my authentic vocation.
Bibliography:
A Sacred Voice Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience, John Neafsey; Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y.; Copyright 2006 Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Parker J. Palmer, Published: Jossey-Bass Inc., 2000.
