C.

Lee
UWRT 1104
Dr. Jizi
10/4/17
Future Authoring Essay

I am going to write about my life and how I can live it for me and not for anyone else

through the use of the Well-Being Theory.

I feel many positive emotions everyday. Its overwhelming yet its wonderful. I cannot

include everything here so I will talk about the top three positive emotions I feel and how I can

continue to feel them. The first is hope. I was in a life or death situation for a while. I didnt feel

the need to live anymore. I am in a better place in my life now and my state of living is my

hope. I feel hope when I look down at myself and see my body parts move. I feel it when I

breathe. I feel it when I eat food and talk to other people because I didnt think I would get to this

point in my life. Hope is real. Before, I secretly hoped to stay alive (even though it may not have

seemed that way). Now that I have done that, I realize anything is possible and if I have hope

anything can happen.

The second emotion is love. I feel that everyone loves me and I believe it. I am able to

feel this (and will continue to feel it) because of my Honesty, Authenticity, and Genuineness

character strength. I am honest about the way I feel and that gives people an opportunity to be

honest with me. My family and I are honest about it and because of that honesty I know that they

love me with everything that they have. This applies to my friends and hopefully to my future

significant other. Honesty keeps the love alive. The third emotion is satisfaction. I feel most

satisfied in my life when I help people. I can feel it in my soul. I have only just realized this

feeling of satisfaction but because I know this now, I can continue to help people in the future so
I can feel this positive emotion. One of my character strengths is Kindness and Generosity.

This is very exciting for me because this strength fits perfectly with this emotion. All I have to

do in my life is be kind and generous and I will feel like I have won the lottery. And because it is

not hard for me to feel kindness and generosity, I know that I will be living a very fulfilling life.

So far in my life, I have felt flow four times. I have felt flow when I played tennis in high

school and when I went to three One Direction concerts. I feel flow when I play tennis because I

know I am good at it, I know how to play strategically, and because I refuse to lose. I dont play

at the moment because I am not on a team and I dont have anyone to play with, but I am

positive that I feel flow when I play this sport. This flow is most likely what helped me to lead

my high school team to winning the State Championships last year. I will continue to play

because I like it and its fun. I can now consider this a hobby because I will not be playing

competitively. I feel relief that I have something I can turn to during stress that will give me

happiness. I also mentioned that I felt flow when I was at my One Direction concerts. This was a

period in my life when I needed them to feel happiness and love. I was fully engaged at their

concerts, no doubt. I blocked everyone out and my concentration was on them only. I had twisted

my ankle (360 degrees) before one of the concerts. I was so in my flow that I forgot about my

ankle and ran across the general admissions lawn to get front row. My flow was so great that my

adrenaline kicked in. If One Direction decides to have a reunion tour then, yes, I will feel this

flow again. But this is only a temporary flow so I do need to figure something else out.

I feel very engaged when I am helping people. I use and will continue to use my value of

dependability to feel this engagement. I dont let people down at all. Because I dont want to let

you down, I become fully engaged with the task until it is complete. I absorb myself in the task
because I know the outcome is going to be satisfying. I know that I will feel flow once I secure a

job at the United Nations. I am feeling engaged now because I am working towards securing a

job there. I want this so bad, that I feel engagement by just thinking about the it. I will

one-hundred percent have flow in my future and I will continue to work for it until I feel it. My

engagement can include working with people who hold the same views as me and working with

people that want to help others just as much as I do. I would love to be a part of the Human

Rights Council for the UN and to work with others to improve many lives around the world. I

want to find creative ways to solve poverty, lack of education, and genocide. I want to bring

justice to all women, especially Korean women, who were raped by the Japanese during World

War II. I want to unify the Korean Peninsula by not using violence but other strategies.

I have many wonderful people in my life. Now, all my relationships are positive. I have

people who I can talk to if I am having an issue. I have people I can talk to when I am happy. I

have people that love me and that support me. My relationship with my parents has greatly

improved. I can talk to both about my issues and problems. I dont feel the need to try and solve

everything on my own anymore. I will continue to feel love when talking with my parents and

while improving my relationship with them. I have cut all the negative friendships out of my life.

I have made new friends at church and its wonderful. I hope to find a significant other in the

future. If my significant other and I have a positive relationship I can feel love and hope not only

for me but for my future children. I would also like to create positive relationships with the

professors that I will study and work under. I am thinking about writing a paper on Comfort

Women and would like to get it published with the help of a professor. I want to have positive,

trusting relationships with the people I work with in the future. I know with these relationships I
can feel satisfaction because I am building connections with people who also want to help

people. I would also like to create positive relationships with high-ranking officials. This would

help with my work at the UN. One of my top five character strengths is Social Intelligence. I

have a radar that acts as a filter. I know what I should and shouldnt say in certain situations. I

have radar that tells me the distance I should maintain when talking to people (the distance will

change depending on the situation). This radar will tell me what to do with my body language. I

know how to handle myself in public because of my social intelligence. I know exactly what to

say in a given situation that will help either enhance the situation or alleviate it. I know that with

this character strength I will continue to maintain strong and healthy relationships with everyone

around me. I can build trust within my relationships through my values of dependability and

understanding. I already explained dependability: I dont let people down. I never have and I

never will. My value of understanding is simple: I dont judge. No matter how insane the

situation may get, I will not judge. Instead, I will try to create an understanding of the situation.

Through this understanding, I can create trust and love with the relationships that I have. I can

use social intelligence while working with the United Nations. My social intelligence also helps

when I am negotiating. If an issue arises, I can use my skills to alleviate the problem. I can also

use my social intelligence when talking with others who are going through the problems that I

am trying to solve. Most importantly, I can use my social intelligence to listen and to encourage

others to listen. Listening to each other, especially when trying to come up with solutions, can

make all processes easier and more fulfilling for everybody.

I value self-control because I am a very controlled and patient person. I have my three

younger brothers to thank for that. I know that I can use this value to keep my relationships
strong and healthy because I wont explode. I can also use this value when I have kids of my

own. Instead of yelling at my future children, I can sit down and talk with them and help them

through their problems which will strengthen their mental state. I can use my patience to listen to

others and understand their thought process and beliefs which will, no doubt, make the world a

better place.

When I was talking about satisfaction, I mentioned that I felt the most satisfied when I

help people. I didnt talk much about it and kept that section short because this is where I wanted

to go into detail about it. I have found my purpose in life. My purpose as a human being is to

help people. Truthfully, I am so glad I found this out now because I dont have to worry about

finding it anymore. I am constantly thinking about others needs over mine. I put other people

before me in my everyday life. I have been in situations where helping others came at a

disadvantage for me, but I didnt regret helping them. I feel so great even if its just pressing a

button in the elevator for somebody. Whether I am helping people out in big ways or small ways,

I know that this something I am meant to do with the rest of my life. After realizing that this was

my purpose, I decided that I wanted to pursue a career that aims at helping others. I settled on the

United Nations. When I was thirteen, I had this desire to work for the United Nations but it

dissolved and disappeared for a while. The desire came back a couple of months ago and I am

now planning strategic moves to help me reach my goal. My major is international studies. I will

focus my studies on the human rights component of my major. I am also planning on joining

UNCC Model UN. I am trying to learn two more languages because language skills are key

when working with the UN. I am fluent in Korean and English. I am not quite there with French

but I know enough that I can understand, I will improve my speaking skills. I am also trying to
start German or Arabic. I am planning on studying abroad. I will definitely be going to Korea

fairly soon for a semester. I am also planning to find an internship there. I would like to focus my

internship with Comfort Women. I will then study abroad once more and go to either France or

Germany. If possible, I will find an internship there as well. I would love to intern for the

International Court of Justice. During my second year of law school, I will try to secure an

internship with the United Nations which I know will increase my chances of securing a job at

the United Nations.

I have a long time before my life comes to an end. There are many things that I would

like to accomplish in that time. I would say most of my goals are reasonable and will keep me

happy and satisfied. My first goal is to join the United Nations as I have previously mentioned. I

am hoping that I will find a position in the Department of Human Rights and aid in creating laws

that will better the lives of people around the world. One of my top character strengths is

Fairness, Justice, and Equality. I have established that I can use this strength to help make

decisions and laws out of fairness and equality. I can help bring justice to those who are suffering

unfairly and give everyone the equality they deserve. Another one of my character strengths is

Citizenship, Teamwork, and Loyalty. I also believe that this strength can help me with making

important decisions and laws. My loyalty to helping people will positively influence others into

helping as well. My citizenship and teamwork skills can be used to bring people together to

agree upon laws and policies that are needed. I know that I can do great things with these two

strengths. Before I enter the United Nations, my goal is to get accepted into Harvard Law

School, Georgetown Law School, or Duke Law School (with scholarhips). One last thing that I

would like to accomplish before I die is to love and accept myself. I love my silky, black hair and
my beautiful, chocolate brown eyes. However, there is more work to be done. I underestimate

myself a lot and I dont really like the way my body looks. I have flab on my stomach, thighs

that touch and wide shoulders. I try not care too much about it, but I do. I see all these pretty,

petite girls walking around and my self-confidence drops below zero. I know I am beautiful. I

havent accepted it fully, but I know I am beautiful. That being said, I am still working on

accepting myself and loving the jiggle on my tummy. Hopefully, I can be completely happy with

my body. I would also like to confidently believe in myself. I have amazing capabilities. I am

capable of a lot more than I think. My brain always tells me otherwise. My brain tells me that I

shouldnt do things because I might fail. My brain tells me that I am not skillful enough for

certain tasks. It tells me that I dont have enough knowledge to answer a question so I shouldnt.

I know that none of this is true, but its a struggle when your brain is trying to bring you down

every day. I am fighting each day with my mind and so far Ive been doing pretty well. I am

going to keep working on this until I am fully confident to do whatever I want, even if I suck at

it.