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Course title: Psychology

Topic: most significant event and its impact in life.

Life is made up of twists and turns that occur at every point and stage in life and whatever happens may have a huge impact in our future lives. The significance of the events that occur in our lives is that they supposed to shape us and to make us wiser and more experienced in life. Significant events are usually easy to recall and they are easy to point out for they are vividly stored in our memories. The most important event that took place in my life before I got to adulthood was the planning of what I want to major on when it comes to what career I wanted in life, to be a paediatrician.

The decision that I made on what I want to be when I grow up remains accurate and it is easy to recall when the decision was made and where it was made. As children grow towards maturity and adolescence, they tend to make decision who they want to be when they grow up; what career path they would want to follow. When that event occurs it becomes an unforgettable memory that teaches us a lesson that will greatly impact our future lives and forms the basic guidelines of life. What makes the event unforgettable? Neurobiological studies and psychologists have concluded that an event or life experience based on emotion is more likely to be vividly recalled. Choosing to be a paediatrician as a career in future, was based on my passion and love for children which is what I found fit for me as a career in future; this makes the event emotionally based hence it is stored in the memory in a way that would be hard to forget.

The subjective well being of an individual refers to how people experience the quality of life based on emotion and the cognitive decisions people make (Hutchison, 2013). The subjective well being of a person tends to depend on ones personality and the emotions one has towards a certain factor. Cognition is defined as the processing of information and the making of changes based on ones preferences; while making the decision to specialize on child care, my love for children was the main motivating factor and preferring to take care of their health made me choose this specific career. That decision has greatly impacted my current life and has made me appreciate children and their health. Taking care of a child’s health helps build the society and giving the community a strong foundation for a better lifestyle. The decision, being a health specialist has helped in developing a love for taking care of life and to aid people (children) when they are suffering from ailments. It has helped build self esteem since one feels proud when they save a life or help a suffering child. Being content and happy of what you do is an element of subjective well being of a person and this has a positive impact on one’s life as people get to make decisions which make them proud of themselves in future. The event has affected my subjective life in a positive way as am always happy with what I do and has made me value life and to always appreciate children and take good care of them.

The development theory describes the study of a child’s growth to adulthood and helps us to appreciate the cognitive, emotional, social and physical growth of children (Hutchison, 2013). The theory stipulates that what a child grows knowing and the environment they grow in helps determine what they will be and it shapes their future. My love for children grew at an early age as I had to take care of my younger siblings, feeding them, making sure they are clean and always took them to the clinic whenever they were ill. That was what lead me to make the decision to major on Paediatrics and currently that decision has greatly influenced my life as the need to care for children grew form cleaning and feeding them to taking care of their health and giving them a chance to be healthy and to some extent being a mentor to some. It enabled me to extend my love for children to other children and has enabled me to appreciate the importance of children in the society and what role they play; hence becomes a motivation to always take care of them.

Significant events that have an impact on our emotions and how we feel greatly impacts our health (Hutchison, 2013), the negative impacts of the event in my life were; getting to see children suffer from illnesses and seeing them in pain lead to mild state of depression as the sight of suffering children was overwhelming. Getting too absorbed in helping and taking care of the children to the extent of denying yourself time with others; this builds a negative impact on ones social life and leads to one pulling away from friends and family which is not healthy as far as one’s social life is concerned and this tends to also have a negative impact on one’s health. Positive impacts of the event are; one gets to develop self esteem and pride since one is content and happy by helping someone in need. It also helped me develop my personality through help other people in a better way which makes me content and proud; this has a positive impact on personal health since one tends to be happy.

References:

Hutchison, E.D (2013). Essentials of human behaviour: integrating person, environment, and the life course. Los Angeles: SAGE.