Highest Aspiration for Any Individual

¶ … highest aspiration for any individual is to become one day a "man," in the most complex sense of the word, a significant member of the society and of the family it creates. My goal is just that, to touch on a small part of the community I live in and, at the same time, to reach out to the needs of my family, my mother, my brother, and my future one. This is why I consider that the career choice I made will give me the professional skills and will develop my personal ones in order to achieve this goal. Becoming a doctor will enable me to acquire a strong technical preparation to help my community and the people around me, and will make me the person my mother will be proud of, thus rewarding her for the efforts she made in supporting me to follow my own path in life.

The profession I chose of becoming a doctor in the field of obstetrics / gynecology offers me a different perspective on life and is teaching me to appreciate human existence from a distinctive point-of-view, that of the person who can influence the birth of a new life, that can determine, even if just in the beginning, the destiny of another human being.

I am currently a 22-year-old student attending college with the aim of going on to Mercer University in Macon, Georgia where I will improve my professional preparation in order to someday open a practice in South Georgia. I believe that in order to have the personal feeling of usefulness, each of us must give something back to the community they are part of. This is why I hope that this professional choice will help me become an important member of the society who can help women with the medical problems they are faced with and can have a contribution to bringing life into this world. Although it may seem an idealistic view of the doctor profession, I believe that it is in the power of the medical staff to help women in their desire to give life and become mothers.

The choice was greatly influenced by the example of my own mother, a Registered Nurse in the field of obstetrics / gynecology. She taught me, both through her own profession, and the sacrifices she made to support my brother and I in our search for our individual path in life, the essence of human life. Her professional experience proved to me the complexity of the physical struggle women face in their role as future mothers and the health issues they encounter. However, the most important contribution she had over my own destiny was the personal support she offered me throughout my bringing up. Her continuous sacrifices for my brother and I determined my great admiration for her. Therefore I want someday to be able to reward her efforts, as a medical doctor and as the grown up I will become. Concerning her, I wish that I will be capable of taking care of her as she has done for me as a mother her entire life. At the same time, I want to become the human being she can be proud of, one that would embody the values she tried to teach me through her own example.