Becoming Who You Are

Becoming who you are is truly a journey into the darkness, in my opinion; because you dont know who you are supposed to be, what your purpose is or where you are going. I use the analogy: you are standing in a dark maze, and a light wont turn on until you take a step. You take a step and a light turns on and you can see a little more of where your going in the process of finding who you are. The steps you take are events in your life that provide direction in your life, much like the light in the maze providing more pieces of your identity. But its not providing per say, its more like revealing the pieces of your identity that are already inside of you, the pieces were just hidden. And those pieces of who you are wont reveal themselves until you deal with situations and events, take a step. Now there is no step in the wrong direction, because at the end of the maze is who you are. It is not like Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, where you can actually take a step in the wrong direction away from the Tri-wizard cup. See, everyone is their own individual person, everyone has their own maze to light up, their own steps to take. There is no win or lose. People might discover their identity faster than someone else but at the end of that maze you discover who you are, and in my mind that is a win. Everyone wins eventually. And success, in my mind, is becoming who you are and fulfilling your dreams and goals. Success for me is not letting someone make you take steps backwards, not letting someone question your identity, because what do they know? They are not you.

Mission Statement

Stereotypically an artist is looked at as someone with boundless creativity and an engineer is looked at as someone with bound logic. However, I am an artist with an engineer's mind, a happy medium between creativity and logic. I believe there is a method to everyone's madness, and everyone's madness has a method. Example, every artist has a logic and every engineer has creativity. My beliefs can be black, white, and anywhere in the middle; but somehow they all have logic with a creative twist. And by creative twist I mean a view point that differs from the majority. I see things in color when everyone else is colorblind

Sources Of My Identity

Being a part of Mount Saint Joseph Academy has certainly became a major source of my identity through my years here. I knew the second I walked through the doors that I belonged here. I received a warm welcome from everyone when I shadowed, opposed to Gwynedd Mercy where I felt exactly like someone's shadow, ignored. From that day I shadowed forward I knew I wanted to go to the mount, and the rest just fell into place. My years at the mount helped shape me into who I am today. Who I am. My family, as dysfunctional as we maybe, we are a team. Team in the sense that, there is no "I". We all hold each other up in times of crisis. And times of crisis seem to plague my family. But somehow we always make it through the hardship together. My family has taught me life long lessons that I will never forget. My grandfather told me, "if you want to reach your dreams, get up and work them yourself because nobody is going to hand them to you." I truly live my life by that statement. I am a daddy's girl for sure. I grew up in a swing my dad hung from the rafters of our garage while my dad worked. As i grew up, "garage talks" were our version of heart to hearts. During our "garage talks", my dad gave me advice, and told me stories that made me who I am today. We still have those talks, and my dad is my best friend.