Life And Future Goals

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My Life and Future Goals - PSY 202 Every day we are faced with different challenges and new obstacles to overcome. Without having challenges we would not learn and grow to gain more knowledge. I believe that everything I have gone through has happened for a reason and it prepares me for another step that will happen in my life. Eric Erikson is a theorist who studied psychosocial development and he believed that our lives developed in eight different stages. Later on in his life he added a ninth. “Erikson recognized that personality development did not end in adolescence but, rather continued to evolve throughout the life-span.” (Kroger, 1996, p. 29) My life has so far gone through several of the stages Erikson theorized, because when I was a teenager, I went through identity versus role confusion, after high school I went through intimacy versus isolation, and now I am currently going through generativity versus stagnation. As a teenager, I was very ambitious and family oriented. I was always asking questions and always on the search for new answers. Just reading a book was never enough for me. I spoke with teachers, other students, and even coworkers to try and find solutions to problems that were not even mine. I always wanted to help people through their problems but looking back I think I did that to run from my own problems and to know I wasn’t the only person going through issues. I love my family very much and when I was a teenager my grandparents all fell ill with various diseases. So naturally they came to stay with me and my family and my mother saw to it that they received the care they needed to help them through the last stage of their life. My freshman year my grandfather had a heart attack and passed away in our living room and I was the only one to witness it. My sophomore year my other grandfather had lung cancer and after living

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