Summoned by a Bright light by Alana

Summoned by a Bright light by Alana - August 2024 Scholarship Essay

To understand who I am is to step in my shoes and feel my strong desire to help others who take a step every day on the same feet. For as long as I can remember, being that shoulder to lean on for everyone has made me a bright light that I can be proud of. To be gifted with the opportunity to go to a school of excellence where the best education is provided would be a dream come true not just physically, but mentally. My goal is to step into the mental health field with an open mind, open heart, and an open will to enhance the knowledge I already hold about this career field.
Entering my first year of studies, I hope to obtain the beginning skills and knowledge that will set me up for success in furthering my education. With so many elements tied to this one field, the excitement that will follow will be a benefit to me in many different ways. When you go into a new learning environment, you are uncertain of what is going to be taught, but in mental health’s favor, you have the comfort of being able to be educated about what causes this uncertainty, and ways you can go about improving this fear. Along with the many different elements that can follow, with different elements come many opportunities. Yes, you can gain amazing income, internships, and an extraordinary workplace, but going into this field provides you with the opportunity of a lifetime of saving a life, even if it's just one.
As I continue to grow, with several career paths challenges and conflicts will always come into the picture. With this being said I plan to go about every challenge in a healthy reasonable way that I can teach to others. Just as I was taught healthy stress tactics by my support system and later on by my future professors, I have faith that every client I come in contact with will be taught and motivated to follow healthier routes to increase the way citizens go about handling their stressful problems. There isn’t a timeline for success, but my drive to reach my highest potential is being met now as we speak and will be continued right after graduating. Being able to accomplish this goal would be a fulfillment to my elementary self who thought she was alone and just being emotional, my middle school self who never wanted to open up and suppressed her feelings, and my high school self who finally let her guard down, and allowed the amazing studies of mental health awareness to comfort her in every way.