Massage Therapy Personal Statement

I am a person who has many, many dreams. There are an infinite amount of things that I would love to be an expert at. In a perfect world, I would be a professional dancer, a world renown singer, an oscars winning actress, a broadway star, a professional sleeper, a massage therapist, an astronomer, and a person knowledgeable about everything there is to know. With a list like that, it is very hard to try and accomplish it all. I have unknowingly become mediocre at these things. I have found my happy medium so I can enjoy these things and not lose my mind at the thought of it all. But there is one thing that I have recently decided to pursue. This decision came later than I would have wanted but better late than never. I have decided to change
Massage therapy was on my list of interests but I bumped it up to physical therapy so it would look better to my family. That's probably where things began to go down hill for me. I got into Howard University and I pursued Physical Therapy because I really had no other options. On my list of interests, I felt that that was the only option I had in order to be successful and approvable by my family. Almost everyone in my family is in the medical field so it just seemed right. Four semesters in school and I felt so unaccomplished. I had become apathetic and I wasn't doing all I could in ordered to succeed. My grades were hanging on for dear life. I slipped into my habit of mediocrity. But, I held because I had no choice but to hang on. Was I happy ? Not at all. Did I know I wasn't happy? Not at
I had done nothing extracurricular towards Physical Therapy. I didn't care enough to work hard for it. I didn't even know it was affecting me until it started to affect my sleep. I push all my stress to the deepest parts of my mind and I keep moving. It only gets to me once something makes it overflow. After weeks of insomnia, that something was registration for Spring semester of 2017. I sat back and realized that I have to register for more classes and spend more money and time on a career that I was not that interested in. A career choice that I was forced to make. I realized that I couldn't do it anymore. It was time to follow my dreams and do something that I have been interested in for six years and counting. The dream that allows me study and explore the world that is beyond the horizon. MY dream of Astronomy! It is finally