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I am a student of SSWD 120 at Northern Lights College. I have written this paper for self assessment which is a part of my SSWD 120 course. In this assessment, I have written the incidents that happened in my life and how they affected me socially and psychologically. I have used the criteria (Kenyon, P (1999) What Do You Do? An Ethical Case Workbook for Human Service Professionals pp 23-27): given in the syllabus.
Life is what you make out of it – the more you indulge the more it gives, the more you reflect inner the more you grow. It is all about living and enjoying every second of your life and letting others do the same.
I was born in an upper-middle-class rural Sikh family in a small village in Punjab (The northern part of India). I grew up in a nuclear family with my parents and younger brother. I enjoyed a lot in childhood like other kids would have. My childhood was funny and gloomy at the same time because I lacked my parent’s attention and time My father, a farmer, and my mother a housewife both were busy with their daily chores in my growing age, but I used to enjoy myself with my younger brother. He was my best friend and partner in all the crimes during that golden period of my life. We used to spend all day together playing in the streets of my village. We had our own invented games like playing with the plant leaves of our garden. After school, we used to spend most of our evening time making paper origami ships, planes, and pistols. We had plans for using these crafted things. For example, on the next rainy day, we are going to play with hand-crafted paper ships, on windy day we will become pilots of our paper-crafted planes, and on usual days we will play police thief drama. Our favorite pastime was the bicycle race. We shared a good bond of trust, and love till a tender age, but as he grew up he became more of an independent guy and that fun faded off with time. The brother-sister relationship is beautiful anyway.
As I was born into a rural family, I was expected to behave like a typical female who would be extremely quiet, and recessive and would easily abide by society’s rules. The Indian culture does differentiate between values for boys and girls, but my parents never forced me to act according to what people say. My family taught me to feel independent and to give freedom to my thoughts, my preferences, and my choices. Which made me a strong independent girl who knows her limits in terms of behavior, values, and morality.
I firmly believe in the presence of God and his justice, and this value was inculcated in me by my mother. As I belong to a Sikh (Religious family- integrity is my core value; it runs in my genes. We as Sikhs believe in standing up for the truth and basic rights of humans regardless of any religion, caste, or race. Our Tenth saint- “Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji” taught us not to hurt anyone, to stay humble and down to earth follow the true path in life, and to fight for our rights and victory of truth.
Life is not a bed of roses; I learned it at a young age, because of some family issues I witnessed a phase of sadness, loneliness, and depression, which could not break me. I emerged as a stronger person approaching the adolescent phase who was more aware of her emotions and circumstances. I believe that I was emotionally stronger than my peers.
I had a large friend circle when I was a teenager. During school life, I indulged in several sports and activities I played basketball at the state level and our team won second position, but this position was not my dream. My ambitions were higher than that. I wanted to participate in the National games. I started practicing Taekwondo (a martial arts game) in 2009. Those memories are still fresh in my mind. My day would start with exercising for my game, practicing on the field, then going to school, again practicing after school hours, and returning late evening home. Even if my schedule was busy I never compromised with my studies. I was good at academics too. I completed my secondary education in 2010 with a “B+” grade. After that, I devoted two years to my studies. In 2011, I pursued the medical field 10+1 and 10+2. I completed my course in March 2012 with overall good grades and one distinction in Biology subject.
My dream to participate in National-level games was about to come true in 2013 when I struck my first gold at the state level. Who knows you can defeat your opponent but not your luck. Just one week before the competition I got a knee ligament injury and I could not participate. I learned patience, I learned to accept failures and face them with a positive attitude.
Failure is not the end it is the first step towards the final victory. As Swami Vivekanand says “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is achieved”. This is what I believe and started working hard again after I recovered from injury.
I believe that life is all about growing and improving yourself, Looking forward to learning something new and better. I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Physiotherapy in May 2014. During college life, I met a lot of new people. Some were good, and some were bad which I realized very late. I had a lot of sweet and sour memories from my college life. I started dating a guy, but this relationship could not run for long because of some issues. I have seen a lot of ups and downs in friendship and love relationships during my college life because of which I suffered a lot but stand tall again. As there is a saying that bad choices teach you the most amazing lessons in your life. I learned from these mistakes and lessons. These incidents helped me to improve myself mentally and emotionally.
Time, either good or bad is temporary. Like day follows night and night follows day. In every life, bad times follow good times. 2018 was the best time of my life. I survived failures, fake people, and heartbroken relationships. I became a graduate Physiotherapist in September 2018 setting the topper position in the final year of graduation. In the same year, I won a national gold medal and got a chance to be a referee in national games. I respect and love my game “Taekwondo” and my profession “Physiotherapy” because it teaches me teamwork, leadership, and management.
Now, I see myself as a strong, confident, proud, happy, and grown-up girl. I am the one who loves to learn new and good things to make myself better for the upcoming life and struggle. I believe, that if we can not make someone happy, at least we can try not to hurt anyone. I am the one who believes in spreading love and smiles. I always try to make someone smile every day. This makes my day. I do this for my peace. I always try not to hurt anyone. At the end of the day, I lay down in bed with a peaceful mind.
My friend circle always consisted of both males and females. Luckily, I never had any apprehensions in dealing with any gender. It’s because right from my childhood I have been dealing with both genders at various game programs. As a professional, I believe in equality – not because it’s a topic selling hotcakes in media – gender equality; but because I believe in this. There is no accomplishment a woman cannot achieve. I believe, that nowadays, women are doing great jobs in all sectors. People say that women are weak emotionally, mentally, and physically, but I have seen the real strong ladies, so I can not believe this statement. Women are good in business and games as well. People who talk about physically weak women should see army ladies and sportswomen as those who do equally physically hard jobs as men. When I was in sports, I used to do all the set of exercises and that was common for males and females. I think everything has two faces. If there are weak women, there are weak men too. I respect both genders and believe in gender equality.
As a fundamental right of humans; my sexuality is my right, my decision and nobody has the right to interfere in that. I am the kind of person who believes in love. I feel blessed to be in a country that has equal rights for people of all types of sexual orientations.
My Future goal is to become a successful Physiotherapist and a businesswoman. On top of that, I want to live a peaceful life with my family. I want to face struggles and failures, but I don’t want to give up on them. I am happy and satisfied with my life today. I want to feel the same on the last day of my life too.
Reference
- Kenyon, P (1999) What Do You Do? An Ethical Case Workbook for Human Service Professionals pp 23-27
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