There's a ton of life-changing decisions you make as you get older. However, there's one question you ask yourself in younger years into adulthood that I believe changes the outlook on life and true happiness with your own life and what truly defines who you are. You think about it as you go through your final days and walk across the most important stage you will ever cross into adulthood. What do I want to do with my life? What is going to be my main purpose in this world?
As I was finishing high school this question became very confusing and undefined. The last six months of high school for me was tough; random hospital visits to see my ill grandmother and every hospital visit I would just think and questions would circle around my head. Why is this happening to me? Why does God let this stuff happen? As I sat in the hospital room I began to ask myself this same question; What do I want to do with my life? How will I ever recover from this?
I thought more and more about this question every day up until one day I had made a decision. You never actually realize what someone is going through until you experience it yourself. My grandmother's death made me realize that I wanted to help people that were sick and help them when they need emotional support, physical support or an support for that matter.
Being a nurse isn't easy by any means; it takes someone who genuinely loves and cares for people, is dedicated, compassionate, strong, empathetic, determined, and most importantly it takes someone with a big heart.
People always ask me how I could be a nurse because of how hard it is to watch people pass away. However, the reality of the situation is that you can make a difference in peoples lives. Even if it is their final days it makes that much of a difference that you were there to make the last of their days that much greater.
The task may be big or small but that's not what matters. The fact that you can help make people's lives better by being gentle, kind and supportive makes the world of a difference. I cannot wait to be that difference in someone's life no matter how big my impact is it'll be worth all the struggles I will encounter because I know it will make that much of a difference.
