My personal philosophy

I have a personal philosophy on life. I know this for a fact. I also know that my personal philosophy on life changes every single day. I experience things that shape me in a different way every time. I think everyone goes through the same thing. I know as a child, I resented the catholic faith. This was only because my parent’s forced me to go. It almost felt like a chore. Once I joined the youth group of my church, I felt more inclined to learn more. I fell in love with God and my faith grew stronger and I learned to love others more than myself. So yeah, I think everyone’s personal philosophy changes day by day. If it didn’t… did you really live?

Now regarding health, health education and being a health professional… I think I am still forming my personal philosophy. See, I just changed my major to Allied Health with the intent of becoming a nurse. I was originally a communication major. In high school I was always the rebellious kid who didn’t want to do what my parents said so naturally, when they told me to become a doctor or a lawyer or an entrepreneur, I fought back and chose communication…which may have been the worst decision of my life. I hated it. I loved helping people in any situation. I loved being a part of something bigger than myself. I was friends with this lady back home who was a nurse and had three beautiful children. She lived a fairytale. She was successful with her husband and her kids. She would go to work and come home and tell me stories on her patients and how she felt for them, how she wanted to make their lives better. She is honestly a huge role model in my life and I don’t think she knows it. I want to be like her- to have a heart like hers, to love like her.

In a sense of being a nurse, it is absolutely an opportunity for me to be a part of something bigger than myself. Health… a definition we learned for this term was “a functional state which makes possible the achievement of other goals and activities.” I love the part that says “which makes possible the achievement of other goals.” Health is more than just being physically healthy. It allows you to keep moving on to bigger and better things. Helping someone get to that point is being selfless. It’s giving without taking. It’s putting others before yourself and really making sure that this person is healthy- physically and emotionally enough to move on in their lives.

Mental health. This is a huge thing for me. I have a friend who struggles with mental health to a point where he considered suicide. I think a big thing that needs to be highlighted is the importance of mental health. We can use health promotion to help others get to that healthy stance. So many people spend their lives focusing on the negatives of themselves rather than focusing on the positives and thus putting so much pressure on themselves to be better. I think a lot of the times we get so caught up on being better that we forget that we are sufficient. On that note, being physically and mentally healthy will build up a person’s self esteem. It reduces stress and the negative mentality built into so many people. It decreases the possibility of suicide.

So my personal philosophy is to be a health education specialist through helping others using health promotion and selflessly putting others before myself to make possible the achievement of other goals, including lessening the risk for suicide through promotion of mental health.

But that’s just for now. Life changes, my perspective on life changes, who knows? Maybe my career path will change and everything I have just written will be completely false. But for now, this is it. This is what I believe.