Scholarship Essay Entry – Lindsay M.
The World is a Big Place from a Little Girls Eye’s
Ever since I was a little girl everyone asked me that same question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Now initially when I was younger I would say I don’t know, or a princess, and all these answers were fine and nobody really questioned me till grade twelve. I thought about the question the whole year and over time my ideas still changed from a hair dresser to a dental hygienist. Finally, I thought I want to be a gym teacher. I love and play every sport, I’m social and outgoing. So, in my second semester at high school, I decided to teacher assist a grade ten gym class. Now don’t get me wrong, I loved every minute of it. However, some little thing deep inside of me told me I didn’t want to be a gym teacher for the rest of my life. This made me rethink my career options. I have always told myself I am never going to do a job I don’t like because it’s a job, or because I need money. I want to be putting 110 percent of myself into my career and know that I am giving it my all. This is when I have decided that I want to be a Nurse.
Being a Nurse is the perfect job for me, I having always being caring and compassionate. I am going to make sure that people feel safe and that I will try my hardest to make them healthy again. I want to be there not only for the patients, but for the families and friends. I am going to make the community better one person at a time, because let’s face it; eventually everyone at some point in their life is going to be sick. Nursing is a job that I can go into everyday and enjoy it.
Nursing isn’t going to feel like a job because it is something I want and choose to do. We live in such a great country that we have many new technologies and access to things that other countries don’t. Lots of people don’t see that, because they don’t see the other countries or don’t really care to compare. However, I do. My dad works in many third world countries such as Iran and Sudan, and he comes home with stories and pictures of the communities there. Almost 75 percent of people in Southern Sudan either have a disease or need medical attention and can’t get it. I know that I’m not instantly going to go to these countries and make everything better as soon as I get out of school, because that’s not realistic. But what I can do is start with what I know and make differences in our own country, help the communities here and eventually go on to bigger and better ways to not only help us out, but help the world!
