5 Year Plan

As I end my highschool years, I am slowly being faced with the horrifying yet intriguing

life of adulthood, the life I had dream and wished for since I was a teenager. Unfortunately, I

wished I was still 15, now I don’t want to grow up. I’m seeing and experiencing life for what it

really is and it’s nothing as what I thought it would be. Though now I wish I was young forever

and didn’t age, I know that with age I will grow and learn and become that wise owl I see my

mom and oldest sister to be. I know that I must grow, to fulfill my dreams and goals. I know that

I must grow to experience the beauty and lessons life has to offer. Now I must grow.

Since I was able to talk I had already been planning what I wanted to do with my life, as I

got older it changed and I started to realize that in order to follow with this plan I must further

my branch, from the growing tree I am, of education. I had dreamed of going to Stanford, to

shortly get my hopes up and dreams crushed after seeing how hard it was to get in, I look back

now and maybe I could’ve gone if I wasn’t so lazy, but now it’s too late or it might not be but

who knows, because do I really want to be in debt all my life just to get bragging rights, no, I’m

good. But anyways. I got rejected by 3 of of the 4 UCs that I applied to. Luckily for me UC

Merced saw my potential. So now my goal is to further my education at UC Merced. I want to

study psychology to either be a pediatric psychologist or a child counselor. All I know that I

want to help children struggling with mental health issues.

As I study to major in Psychology, I also want to minor in child development. My goal is

to learn ways to help children struggling with mental health issues, I want to prevent children

from struggling from anxiety, depression and so many other mental health disorders so they can

enjoy their childhood and grow up to be better adults, they are who hold our future. While
studying I want to work as a teachers aide, specifically preschool or any elementary or middle

school. I feel that with my studies and interacting with children with the job of a teacher’s aide,

I’ll be able to comprehend more the ways children interact and feel. I believe that working as a

teacher’s aide will help me out extremely for what I plan on becoming.

Throughout my next five years after high school, I would like to get the opportunity to

study abroad or to just go on missions to help struggling countries. I know for sure that within

the next five years, I will be doing this. I want to be able to help not only the children around me

but those around the world. I don’t just want to travel to experience new places and travel, but I

want to travel to help those that aren’t lucky enough to get the help they deserve. We see lots of

people struggling physically and that’s the only way people want to help because that’s all they

see but what they don’t see is the emotional help that these people need and where’s their help

then? I want to provide that emotional support that these people cannot receive or just aren’t

lucky to have.

Another plan I have is to finally graduate from UC Merced and be able to practice

counseling. I want to open an office and provide affordable care for these people struggling. I’ll

even travel if those who need help can’t reach me. I just strive to help others in forms that I

wasn’t lucky enough to have. And even though I have pushed through many youth and children

aren’t so fortunate and end up in a hell hole crying for help but no one hearing or bothering to

hear. I strive to be that helping hand to all.

I also want to be living on my own and living my own life within these five years. I want

to get an apartment and focus on my plan to help others. Of course I have plans to marry and

have kids but I want to reach my life plan goal to help others first before I jump into something
else. I want to be able to feel satisfied and content with my work before I begin to start a family

or a life with others. In all I know that I will extremely dedicated in my work or working to

pursue my goals.