It can change your life and it never even slows down.

I started out college with one goal in mind: get a degree in Psychology, figure out something to do with it, but make sure that the final outcome is something that I can help people in. For me, life isn't about making the most money or being the most well-known woman in the world, rather, it is to help people. After all these years of trying to figure out what I really want to do, I believe that I have figured it out.

This quarter I signed up for a Sociology class not really thinking about it. Since sociology is one of my minors, I had two more classes to fulfill before I was done, and this was one of them. The class I am talking about deals with the topic of Social Work, and overall, I couldn't be happier with my decision to take it. Throughout this quarter, I have learned more about the social work profession, and I realized that this is what I want to do with my life. I have always wanted to help people in their lives, and I hope that this is the way that I can really achieve this goal.

One of the class meetings that really made me realize that this was what I wanted to do was when we watched the episode from Oprah that focused on a program called "Challenge Day." Challenge Day is a program that promotes growth and creates bonds by having people that are diverse come together and share their stories, beliefs, and hardships with one another through group activities. On this specific day, the program visited a high school where there is a lot of racism and issues that students deal with that were never handled properly, and in some cases, not handled at all. Watching these students tell their stories, cry on each others' shoulders, and ask for help made me want to do the same thing, anything, to change the emotions that were being projected onto the screen. I realized in those moments, that this was what I wanted to do: to go to youth and help them realize that they are not alone with their struggles, and that they don't have to feel the way that they do.

From previous posts, I'm sure by now you can see that I am about building up self-esteem and loving yourself, and you can probably figure out what exactly my feelings were towards the video. I sat in my seat watching, holding back tears because of what I heard coming from these students- I wanted to help so badly. Sitting in class, knowing that this is how a simple video about an exercise effected me tells me that this is exactly what I am supposed to be doing, and I can't wait to be able to truly make a difference in at least one person's life.

Challenge Day

www.challengeday.org

Carrie Underwood - Wheel of the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPQQ1YnYAw