Appreciation

My mother has been the person that has had the most positive influence on me over the

past four years. She has been in my life since the very beginning but she really started to pay

really close attention to my education during high school because I am starting to decide my

career plans.

Before my mother influenced me, I was really stressed because I didn’t really know what

I wanted to do. Going through a private school, I was trying to finish all of my work and I didn’t

really think about what I could do in the future. In private school, I was just following what I was

told to do and came into high school somewhat clueless. Once in a while during high school, my

mother would sit down with me and ask me what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to be in the

medical field but I didn’t know nursing was I wanted to do. My mom, as a registered nurse,

informed me on registered nursing. Just like her mother, she wanted my future to be stable. She

told me that she wanted to be an engineer, but as the oldest child her mom wanted her to pursue a

safe job that would ensure a good future. She wanted to be an engineer, but she did end up loving

her job as a registered nurse. She really influences my siblings and I to find a job that we really

want to pursue. She really supports what I am interested in right now, registered nursing, and is

also supportive when I’m not sure that I want to be a registered nurse.

My mom and I are very similar but we do have a lot of differences. My mom is very

straightforward and has no problem in saying what she believes in. If she thinks someone is

doing something wrong, she’ll tell them. Whereas, I am very quiet and try to avoid situations that

could end badly. She is very hard-working because she wants her children to have a good life.

She wants to be able to send us to a good college and help my siblings and I to get through
college. For this reason, she is in college right now trying to get her master’s degree. My mom is

very selfless in that she puts her children’s needs in front of her own and even tells my siblings

and I to not bother getting a part-time job if we don’t want to because she will pay for college.

Other than being very selfless and loving my mom is very smart and graduated at the top

of her class, which is why I trust her so much. Her influence has helped steer me in the direction

of a career that is right for me. She isn’t forcing me into registered nursing, she has just helped

me to know what registered nursing is like. I know that I am very lucky to have my mom

because a lot of people are forced into a job and don’t get to do what they wanted to do. My

mom’s support will definitely affect my future in that I will go to a good college and I will be

able to pursue what interests me.