Post 2- Your Life Story

My Life Story

Today I will share about my life and future goals and predictions

Early Life

I was born during winter in Houston, Texas to parents in their 40s on February 23 before 2010. I have an older brother, but my parents had several miscarriages before me, so we have a 5 year age gap keeping us apart. My mother always wanted one boy and one girl, so she and I formed a very strong bond because she finally got her baby girl. 

First Milestones

I first crawled at 7 months old, I stood up two weeks later, then two months after that I began walking! Also, I said my first word "babba," refering to my bottle and the next day I said "dada," much to my mother's dismay.

Early Creativity in Toddler Years

Early on, I was sent to daycare so my parents could work their office jobs, but I hated it and would throw a tantrum nearly every day. Although it was a struggle getting me inside, I was an avid member of the art class, and I was selected to present some of my work in a gallery walk-through at 4 years old. We went to a museum, and they printed small cards with our names and pictures to credit the artist. Although it only included kids around my age, it was a huge accomplishment and I gained so much pride in being complemented by art viewers I had never met before. I also made my own dresses out of fabric during preschool, and I wore them in a fashion show they hosted. I got to choose the fabric and fit of my dress, and it was a wonderful opportunity to express my creativity through clothing of my own.

Grade School and Middle School

I always worked hard in school, and in third grade, I made it into the spelling bee. Unfortunately, it didn’t last very long, but it was an exciting accomplishment for me. At 11 years old, I began jumping horses, and about three weeks later I competed in my first show! Unfortunately, while practicing cross-country jumps, I flew off the horse and blacked out for a few moments. I couldn’t breathe until I let out a heavy sigh. I landed in the grass, rather far from my last memory cantering around a rocky pond, and I spent the next two days using ice packs and riding with a new air vest to lessen any impact of fall.  Also, I was cabbage in our fourth-grade musical.

After High School

I graduate high school around June 2024, and I intend on traveling a lot that summer since I will finally be an adult. The summer before university, I want to go to Indonesia and work as a volunteer helping at an orangutan rescue. Several years ago I found a YouTube channel for the rescue, and I fell in love with how sweet and similar their orangutans were to us humans. Click here to find out more and donate or click here for volunteer opportunities!

College Degree and Post-Graduate Life

The following summer I will take additional college courses, working towards my bachelors of science nursing degree, so I can join the ILP and be a basic English teacher for school kids in Nicaragua or Vanuatu. This way, I can get ahead on my credits for the first semester of sophomore year and not worry about delaying my graduation. Also, I can have a tan when I come home for Christmas! My dream school is Boston College, but I know in-state tuition is significantly cheaper, So I will likely graduate from Texas A&M. I don’t like kids, but I want to adopt many animals after graduation, like a cat first then a dog once I have more time to be active enough for it. 

Career and Family Goals

I want to become a travel nurse to explore for the first 5-10 years of my career, and I hope to specialize in labor and delivery because I want to help people through one of the toughest, yet most precious moments in life. I don't know exactly when I will retire, but I think it will be once too many people have made me angry and their poor decisions consume my head, so it may be at 40 years old. If this happens, maybe I will win the lottery, or I will go off the grid so I don't have to pay taxes, especially property taxes funding schools for the kids I don't have or want.

Future Goals and Exploration

I would like a modest house that only supplies things that help me live comfortably. Eventually, I want to pack up and hike to live in the Alaskan woods, like Chris McCandless, but I don’t hope to die of starvation or poison, unnoticed for days. I want to explore where people came from and break away from this technological world that has made so many things inaccessible, much like I can’t walk anywhere, not even to the grocery store less than a mile away from my house without crossing multiple busy intersections. Some people have become too consumed with money and power, and many of the people I have met are corrupt, so I hope to take a break and explore the outdoors. However, I would be lying if I said I don't use my car, computer, phone, water heater, air conditioning, and other electrical devices every day. I hope that placing myself in a position without it will make me more conscious of how much I consume, which I can hopefully share with others to create a bigger change with an understanding of how greatly one individual contributes. I want to have many cats, dogs, and pet birds to keep me company, as I don’t have any desire for kids of my own or to get married, especially considering how overpopulated Earth is now.  I am not entirely closed off to the idea of it, but it does not seem ideal for how I assume my future will go.

Other Plans

Possibly, I would foster or adopt a teenager at some point because I know there are so many people out there who need homes, and teenagers are usually less desired than younger kids. If I did this, I would like to do so in my forties so I am financially stable, mature, and responsible enough to raise a good human. I love animals and plan on volunteering at local shelters and rehabilitation centers that need assistance at least twice a month. I would like to be more conscious of my negative environmental contributions and help others when I can and spend more time in nature instead of tucked away in my room scrolling through my iPhone.

End of My Life

Hopefully, I will die at peace, exploring nature and seeing all of its beauty I have missed out on. I will be satisfied dying young knowing I didn’t contribute to the demise of ecosystems and worked to cause as little harm as possible. It would be extremely rewarding to see others exhibiting compassion, but society has many that lost kindness long ago. I will probably die young because I want to explore nature alone, which could certainly leave me in dangerous situations. Also, both sides of my family have cancer, so if a wild animal or a large rock doesn't kill me, I can expect cancer to take me out by my 70s.