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My mother gave birth to me at North Hollywood Hospital on August 11th, 2006. I would relate this event to Erikson's Trust vs. Mistrust. theory as it occurred within the first 18 months of my life and I was starting to develop, depending on my parents for food, water, sleep, shelter, etc, essentially learning who I could trust and who I couldn't, and starting out to experience life.
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By this time I was walking and babbling. I was a little over 1 year old and I was beginning to interact more with my environment, learning how to walk and eventually saying my first words. I would relate this event to Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage because I am starting to experience the world through my senses.
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Around the age of 3 I started PreSchool. I went to ABC Little School, and I would relate this stage to Piaget's Preoperational stage because it falls in the age range 2-7 and includes symbolic thinking, intuition and imagination and lacks abstract/complex thought. I think this fits PreSchool as you are just learning how to act in the world with others, it is preparing you for school.
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Around the age of 5, I started first grade at Welby Way Elementary School. I would relate this to Erikson's Initiative vs. Guilt stage of development where I practice initiating tasks carry out plans and learn to be independent work wise.
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In 2020 I started highschool amid a global pandemic. It was exciting in a way, I think the pandemic has been a huge experience that changed me, I shifted my mindset and started caring about my future a lot more. I've wanted to just learn as much as I possibly can in this time whilst education is still free, and I'm relating this to industry vs. inferiority because I'm learning how to apply myself, to get things done independently, to learn as much as I can, and to be productive.
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I started taking a college class whilst I'm taking my highschool classes and its so far been one of the best decisions I've made. I'm taking a computer science class to explore my interests, therefore I'm relating this event to identity vs. confusion as I am learning what my interests and passions are. I don't fully know yet what I want to do with my life, but as of now I'm thinking of either going into medicine or something with technology.
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I've applied to work at my school's pool over the summer and so far I've been accepted(into the LA city pool system) I just need to interview with the manager of the pool that I want to work at, so if all goes well I will have a job for this summer. I would relate this event to formal operational as I'm am going to be interacting a lot with the public and I will be applying things I've learned throughout my life and applying it to this job.
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I put my marriage as an important future event. I think marriage is a big event in life and I would relate this to Erikson's intimacy vs. isolation as I will be marrying someone who I am intimate with, someone who I developed a meaningful relationship with, someone who shares my ambitions and interests.
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I put the future event of having kids on this timeline. I related this event to generativity vs. stagnation because I feel like raising kids is a full time job and as an adult it offers a heavy sense of purpose. You contribute through the world by raising good kids who will positively impact the world.
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I put the future event of my Retirement in my timeline. I don't think I'd ever fully retire, I think that once I'm around 55 ish I'll retire from my main job of working in the industry(either medicine or computers) and work as a professor at a university. I can't really picture myself just retiring and not really doing anything, I'd need to do something. I'd relate this to integrity vs. despair as typically with retirement comes reflection of your adulthood and feel satisfied or like a failure.