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Birth
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0-10
Years 0-10 -
Trust Vs. Mistrust, 1st Birthday
After spending a year in the mysterious world, I begin to trust my parents and they are always there for me when I need a bath or to eat, they will provide. I have met a few of my family members but they're still strangers to me. -
Trust Vs Mistrust, Learning to walk
I start to take my first few steps but it's very difficult since my legs aren't that developed yet. My parents help me out and try their hardest to help me out. I trust them so I know that I won't fall and I know that eventually I will know how to walk because of them -
Trust Vs. Mistrust, Christmas
After experiencing my very first christmas, I like the whole holiday thing. Spending my christmas with my family made me more familiar with their faces along with their voices. -
Autonomy Vs. Shame and doubt Learning how to walk fully
After numerous fails, I learn how to walk by myself and for a long duration. It took me a while to learn how to walk with my parents and the next step for me was to do it by myself. -
Autonomy Vs. Shame and doubt, Saying a few words
I begin to say a few broken words like "Ahh" or "Dahhh" but after a while I start to build some simple words. After hearing my parents speak Vietnamese and some english, I pick up those words and try to do it myself. -
Autonomy Vs. Shame and doubt, Chaos
After knowing my way around the house, I start to mess with things that I'm not suppose to but I don't know it yet. Exploring the house helps me understand a lot about my enviornment. -
Preschool, Initative Vs. Guilt, Independent
After learning more about the world and how it works, I begin to become more curious about things. When I'm out to learn more about the world, I try to figure it out myself and explore through my own experiences. -
Initiative Vs. Guilt, Exploring my boundaries
I was a curious child and I tend to question a lot of things. Since I was so curious, I wanted to know why for everything and because of that I learned that I couldn't achieve most tasks. Something that I learned was, I wasn't immortal so I got physically hurt a lot. -
Initiative Vs. Guilt, Discipline
After trying to learn more things about the world, my mom set a bunch of rules to what I can do and not. I was so fascinated by the world so I wanted to do things that to me didn't seem that bad but in reality it was. I wanted to mess arond with food but my mom said that I couldn't. -
Industry vs. Inferiority, Wanting to Cook
I always love to cook, espically combine a bunch of random objects and chemicals together. I thought that cooking was easy and I had no clue to how much is needed to cook so I would try all the time but of course I failed. -
Industry vs. Inferiority, Mr. KnowItAll
I felt like I knew everything, I didn't realize how complicated the world was so I just assumed that I knew everything. -
Industry vs. Inferiority, No fear
I didn't know what fear was when it came to doing dangerous tasks so I always did stupid things. I would mess with electronics that I had no clue in what they did. I would get into trouble for breaking the VCR or a random audio player -
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Years 10-20
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Adolescence, WHAP
One of the most memorable times in my life is the WHAP test. I studied and worked my ass off for this test and I wanted to pass so bad. I never tried so hard in anything in my entire life and I wanted to challenge myself and push my limits. At the end I didn't pass but I took the best of the situation and moved on and try harder next time, I didn't want to look back, I just want to move foward. -
Identity Vs. Role confusion, Junior Year
Knowing that junior year is the hardest year out of my whole high school career, I wanted to try my hardest and succeed. During this time I want to push myself to the limit and continue to push myself. I use to slack off and not try at all in school but every year, I go out of my confort zone. -
Identity Vs. Role confusion, Graduating
After spending 4 years in torture, I'm finnaly free to go become an young adult and start the next chapter of my life. I will move onto college and learn to take care of myself more and just become more independent. -
Identity Vs. Role confusion, Discovering more about myself
After spending more time by myself, I learn more about what I'm capable of and how I handle things independently. There is always more to learn about myself and espically during this shift to my new daily routine. -
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Years 20-30
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Intimacy vs. Isolation, More mature
I become more mature and learn more about the adult life. College life also comes with the social aspects of it, I make new friends and I connect with them. I also look for a girlfriend around this time and it's a real struggle. -
Intimacy vs. Isolation, Building a social life
Trying to keep up with life is hard. Trying to stay up with college, part time job, social life, and free time is very hard. Balancing those things are very difficult. -
Intimacy vs. Isolation, Relationships and College
Around this time, I should be done with college and ready to take on more and more responsibilites. The need to find a girlfriend is greater around this time. -
Marriage?
After finding my partner, I want to settle down and get married. Getting married is something that I get sort of excited for but also very nervous -
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30-40
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Intimacy vs. Isolation, Stable relationships
Trying to build a stable relationship between family and friends is very important. Trying to keep the relationships strong while managing my life, but by now I should be good at this kind of stuff after so many years of this. -
KIDS!
I want kids but only 2 max. I like kids but not too many of them -
Intimacy vs. Isolation, Being more confortable
Around this time, finding a good place to stop and just be comfortable as possible. Getting school done with and finding a stable job. -
Getting old
After numerous years constantly working and trying to get money. I just become mentally tired of all of this work. -
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40-50
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Generation Vs. Stagnation
I begin to apperciate the things that have happened in my life and I want to repay my family back for all they have done for me -
Generation Vs. Stagnation, Community
I try to give back to the community as much as I can and I decide to volunteer and help those in need. This should be familiar since I was in interact club -
Bucket list?
I start to think about the things I have done in my life and I still have quite a bit of things I want to do. So I begin to pursue those ideas -
Man, I am old
My kids are growing up so fast and I'm growing so old very fast. Getting ready to build my kids futures and I focus a lot on them because I want the best for them of course -
Generation Vs. Stagnation, kids
I give all of my effort and work into my kids so they can advance in life and do things they want to pursue. So I lend them a lot of money for college and to help them get through life -
Starting to think of retirement?
I start to become mentally drained from working and I start to think about just settling down and taking things very easy -
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50-60... damn
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Becoming really old
Seeing my children grow up pursue big things makes me very happy and I'm just proud of their accomplishments -
Generation Vs. Stagnation, Getting weak
I begin to get old and weak, physically weak. I try to do what I can to help people since everyone has contributed so much in the past decades -
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The future.... 60-70
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Integrity vs. despair
I begin to apperciate all of the things that has happened in my entire life. I really apperciate everything -
Integrity vs. despair
I start to reflect on what I did with life and I just begin to tell numerous stories to my kids. I give them life lessons every once in a while because I don't want them to make the same mistakes I did -
Integrity vs. despair
I look back at all of the mistakes I made along with my achievements -
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70-80
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Retiring
Becoming really weak and just unable to do anything these days. I want to retire and just live life in a relaxing way, with no worries -
Nothing much
Being so old, there isnt much going on these days and I just watch as the days past and as my kids grow up more and more every day -
Letter
Hello, I wanted to write a letter for somone and I have no clue who is going to read this but I just hope that you can help me. Right now I am dead and I want people to remember me for one thing, failure is key. Failure will always occur to anyone, no matter how perfect you think you are, failure is bound to come. Failure isn't a bad thing at all, it helps people find out what their flaws are and you can use that to improve yourself. I like to take my failures and take the positive things about. -
Letter, contiuned
Take the positive things about it and use it to improve myself so the same doesn't happen again and if it does, I will do the same thing. I always find ways to improve myself and be the best I can be for the sack of me and everyone else around me. I am proud of this idea and I didn't think of it all by myself. I like to work off this idea and i hope this can help anyone else but everyone works at a different pace and style. I don't regret much because I don't like to look back at the bad things. -
Letter continued...3rd
I don't regret anything because I don't like to look back at things in a negative way. I like to look forward and I try to be positive about everything as much as I can.
