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Welcome to the World
I was born at 9:02 am on January 11th, 2002, at Arlington Heights hospital. -
Met my second family
At 2 months old, my parents hired a baby sitter and she took me in as one of her own. With a 4-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, I had 2 friends who felt like my siblings. This important event has cemented my idea of trust and mistrust (Erikson). Right from the very beginning, I was taken care of and I learned to trust people in my life. I began to see the world as a safe and predictable place. -
New Home/ My Sanctuary
At 2 years old, my parents and I moved from Arlington Heights to Naperville, in the house that I still currently live in. This move was important in my life because according to Erikson, this was a time for experiments and autonomy. In this new house, I was able to explore the neighboorhood and make my own little decisions. -
Daycare (yikes)
At 3 years old, my parents enrolled me in our neighboorhood preschool. This was a tough time for me because I didn't learn English as my first language. Communication was tough for me and therefore it was a little harder for me to make friends in daycare. According to Erikson, this is the age where children decide to take initiative through social interactions. Given my communication skills, this enrollment set me back by a little until I began learning more English. -
Kindergarten (yay?)
At 5 years old, my parents switch me from my preschool to a kindergarten/ preschool. According to the Maslow, I began being motivated by the hierarchy of needs. Having satisfied my physicological, personal safety, and security needs, I began to fill my love tier. Trusting other adults and making friends allowed me to mold my personality more into someone more extroverted or hyper. I had more time to explore things about myself than I had before and it's mainly because I began to let others in. -
Disney WHOOT WHOOT
At 7 years old, my parents took me to Disney Land. This trip allowed me to open up my imagination as a child. Obviously believing in Santa and the tooth fairy, but I was able to see and believe in miracles. Seeing my parents so happy allowed me to secure a sense of love in my parents. While the Hierarchy of needs leans more towards adulthood, I began my journey towards self-transcendence here, at Disney and maybe even during kindergarten! -
Olympic Dreams
At 8 years old, I began playing badminton. My parents were eager to get me into a sport that I felt a part in and the first 10 tries didn't do that for me. Twice a week, they drove me to get lessons and it paid off. Not only did I fall in love with the sport, I developed a sense of competitiveness that can't be taught. I met new lifelong friends that helped me slightly satisfy my belongingness tier as they took me in as one of their own. Little did I know what a journey this would be. -
Chicago Open Champion
After 5 strenuous years of training in Badminton, I began to see incredible tenacity and growth. I learned to be more patient with my approach to the sport and it paid off. This day, I one the Chicago Open, at 13 years of age. I beat two women, who have all had incredible success in the sport, one qualifying for the Olympics, and I received a lot of positive reinforcement. I learned that in order to win prizes and attention, I had to work my butt off to stay on top. It didn't last long. -
The Biggest Interruption of my Life
Going into high school, my 3 best friends and I decided to try out of the Girls Golf team in high school. I saw the negative effects that people had going into high school with having bad frineds. Luckily for me, through prosocial modeling, I modeled my friends' good decisions and vice versa. Golf was one of them. I made the biggest decision in my life to start pursuing golf and letting go of badminton. I learned that my role models don't have to be 10 years older, they could be my best friends. -
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Special Someone
During this time period, I will meet my future husband. It might be through multiple tries but Maslow's Hierarchy of needs includes love and belongingness needs. These will be close to satisfied once I find the one. Once I feel included, accepted, and loved by him, my self-esteem will also be affected positively- bringing me closer to self-transcendence. Not only will this affect my personality but it will also impact my family tree bc with him I will be passing down traits to my children. -
the next 4 years...
On February 15th, 2020, I received my acceptance letter to Emory University (hopefully), there I will major in Biology and apart of the Emory Women's Golf team. I will behave to experience learning in the form of self-improvement because I won't have my parents there to watch over me. I will have to make goals, reinforcements, and strengthen my intrinsic motivation. This will allow me to find a happy medium from being an outgoing and fun-seeking, but also motivated and smart college student. -
not even close to done:)
at 22, I will be graduating from Emory. It will be a great achievement, but I will still have 8+ years of education to become a doctor. This is where motivation comes to play. I will be going through an incredible amount of ups and downs like applying for med school. All the while, I will need to sustain relationships. Feeling alone while going through these struggles will only breed anxiety and a feeling of emptiness. I will need to find time to destress my mind with friends and family. -
Will you accept my final rose?
By this point in my life, I will hopefully have a stable job and a future husband. Emotionally wise, I will be happiest but also the most stressed in my life. I tend to be a very anxious person so when major events in life don't occur as expected, I will experience a wedding but I won't know when the proposal will happen, there I will experience stress, but I will have to learn how to cope with these challenges bc if I found the one, then engagement will happen eventually. -
M.D. LIN
In finally becoming a doctor, I will have more opportunities to support myself. My salary will be high and that will give me a chance to fully satisfy my drives. According to the drive reduction theory, in order to maintain homeostasis, I will need to purchase food and other needs to help my homeostasis. I will be able to afford my positive and negative stimuli to achieve optimal arousal. While I did this in the past, I will be able to buy these things myself given my newly raised income. -
it's a girl or boy!!!
According to Erikson, the intimacy vs isolation stage comes during the time period of 18-40. Having met my husband and getting married with him, I will trust him enough to be the father of my children(s). This is a vital part of a human's life because it brings out instincts that they couldn't develop without children- the maternal/paternal instinct. Forming a motherly relationship will affect the way I view life after bc I will only be focused on one thing, him or her. -
ten year mark <3
this ten-year achievement of love is oftentimes cut short through a loss of interest or other sad events that happen to a couple. With my husband, this will mark a period of growth for me. Having a partner for life means that you trust them; it means that you only care for them. This would boost my self-esteem as the only person that I care about my appearance to is my husband. This is important bc my Hierarchy of Needs will be close to fully achieved, only leaving self-transcendence. -
First goal scored!
Baby will be put into sports. She/he will have the right to choose what sport but when she/ he has found THE sport, it will be a huge event in my life. As sports has been such an important role in my life, I will hope for positive social modeling towards my child. I want him/her to be able to be as active as possible because the future might become a harder place to find opportunities. Sports not only advocates for a healthy body, but it also prevents mental illness through healthy competition. -
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it's not goodbye, it's see ya later
this will be a time of loss. We will lose out child to college along with losing our parents due to age. According to the Erikson's 8 stages of development, this is the generativity versus stagnation stage. I will still be working at a hospital, maybe being close to burning out but I will continue in fear of not developing a sense of purpose. My child will be off the college so my husband and I will need to find things to pass time or else we'll feel lonely and useless. -
cutie grandbaby
Happiness is probably a little harder to feel at this stage of life. There is nothing new to experience and my job is probably getting less exciting as it was before. Then my child has a child! According to the natural selection, only the best of the best are able to reproduce given their good genes and success in life. That means that my child was picked. This is important because experiencing happiness is important in one's mental health and the way they cope with stress and stressors. -
bye bye job!
At this age, I will be retiring from my job. I will most likely have learned how to cope with an incredible amount of stress and that has had an effect on my mental health. Given that I constantly am performing physical activity and mental stimulation, I will be healthy, just maybe not as excited about learning new things. By this time, I will most likely feel like I have achieved personal-fulfillment on Maslow's hierarchy of needs but that will stop the day I don't have anything to do. sigh... -
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what do i do now?
Knowing me, I have a hard time not having anything to do. This period of time consists of the integrity vs despair period that Erikson proposed. I will look back at my achievements, I saves so many people that I lost count, I married the most wonderful man, and I had children to raise brilliant children. While it will be a hard time as my body will start to become frail, but I will be proud of my parent's, husband's, children's, and grandchildren's accomplishments. -
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It's been a ride. goodbye.
It's the end. My husband has passed away and we experienced all the emotional ups and downs that we possibly could. According to David Watson, humans can experience bad days, but the gloom always lifts and life gets better. I will have experience tragedy, my parent's passing away, and I will have experiences serenity, seeing my beautiful family together. I will hopefully pass knowing that I achieved Self-transcendence, that I was incredibility proud of the life that I lived. Life's amazing. -
