How Self-Acceptance Helped Me to Improve My Life

I believe in happiness and positivity can make life better. What I think the meaning of happiness is when I know that my life is complete and makes me smile every day. What I think the meaning of positivity is when I know having a positive attitude will make things better and flow better. I believe that with laughing, smiling, be confident, and making other people happy with simply a smile to them. I believe that showing positivity and happiness will make another person to feel better about themselves. I think happiness and positivity would be the best mindset healing which we all can have and have positive views.

During my three years of high school, I was going through much with my parents’ divorce, move to new school, new homes, etc. I was always not in the mood to be with people or around people. I wasn’t doing good in school. I was getting to figure out what was my next step in my life such as either college or trade school. I wasn’t really happy about what I was doing and how the things happen. I would sometime think negative about myself or doubt myself. I knew I wanted to do with like helping with people and caring about other but I wasn’t sure what career yet.

During my college years, I think I was more confident and trying to fix my bad habits. I try to think my positive about myself like either passing an exam or passing all my classes for each semester. In the middle of the spring semester, I was going through not being happy and not being positive toward myself. I was back in the mood again when I was in High School. On March 2018, my grandma, brother and I were in a car accident. After the accident, I did a lot of thinking about my life, career, mindset, relationship with people. I told myself that I shouldn’t put myself down and try to make myself happy first. I shouldn’t overstress myself in the exam or paper or anything, just be positive. Life is too short to be negative and not be happy for where you can see the light of each day.

On May 24, 2019 was the most important day of my happiness and positive vibe ever. I graduated from Howard Community College. It is most important day because I was the first in my family generation to graduate from college. Walking down the stage made me proud of myself of my accomplishment and goals that I had set for myself. My family was very proud of me. That was the most special day. I went through my college year thinking that I wasn’t going make it at all.

Furthermore, I made it and I got accept to UMBC majoring in Social Worker, and Cultural Anthropology. I had family, friends, professors, mentors to pushing me in the right direction. I would like that I am so grateful to have my grandma pushing me, supporting me, and listening to me while I was in school from Kindergarten till now. She has my main support in any decisions that I had made in my life.