Who Am I? I am what society calls a "person" but does that really define me? What makes up the person I am is my sanity, my beliefs, my hobbies, my sports, my bed, my family, and looking at tomorrow with wide open eyes. I'm a nineteen year old person who thinks he has ten more years of life left because I rush into things too rapidly. The biggest influences in my life by far are my parents and grandparents. My grandfather could take the first place trophie if there were to be one.
I'm a fourth generation American (paternal side, first generation maternally). My father is of American-Italian decent and my mother is from Spain. I do have two last names and to make things easier I use the first one. I do not, unfortunately, speak very much Italian and I always ask my grandmother why she never embraced the language, it's so beautiful! Thus the only Italian-speeking family member I have is my great aunt. I do speak Spanish and very little French (mom speaks both). My interest for accounting came from my mother because she herself is one. I have just one sister and I remember playing "store" with her and swiping her library card as if it were a credit card. I guess it runs in the family. I have a passion for music and wanted to have a band while in highschool. I play the piano and listen to Coldplay on stressful days (everyday). During my second year in highschool I joined the Air Force JROTC and through that program I matured very quickly. I graduated a Cadet Second Leiutenant. So you're probably wondering why I had stated that it feels as if I only have ten years of life left and the answer to that is, because of that Air Force program (and my grandfather) I've started doing things teenagers my ages wouldn't do until another 5 more years. I even started saving for my retirement (401k) last year at 18 years old! I play hockey and ice skate during whatever free time I have.
My goals in life is to have a career in accounting and political science and to be able to have more than sufficient stability to support my needs and one day my very own family. There are things we go through that shape our personality every day and I do believe it's affected my own biography. The everyday world is changing more rapidly each and every day with rights being granted to certain groups of people (and many other things occurring around us, not just that). To keep up-to-date in this modern society we live in we must adapt to changes, and I'm not too fond of that, and a major historical factor that has change my sociological perspective has been Equality for those individuals who want what they want and break the "status-quo." This has influenced my "biography" because I've become very acceptant of new norms—it's our life! And with that being said I step out of my own view and look at things with the sociological imagination and come to realize that we're "hard-wired" to look at the normalities of today and say, "this is how it should be!" Without noticing that change is inevitable for the better.
Nice to meet you Alexander.
ReplyDeleteI find your blog very interesting, dramatic and exciting. I can tell a lot about your personality just by how you "type". You seem like a very intelligent, athletic, mature, and ambitious young man who also is family oriented I would think.
I agree with you 100% when you say that we are "hard-wired" to look at normalities as how it should be without realzing what normalities really are? For many different cultures, countries, and ethnicities, normalities are completely different then one another, and for this same reason I think everyone especially in the United States should be able to have a social perspective and imagination to understand other's around us. Especially if your living in NYC where this state is brought up by cultural diversity.
I also find it interesting how you've already started saving for your retirement. I would say the definitely makes you far more mature than any other 19-year-old.