Personal Narrative: My Path To The Medical Field

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” Some may recognize this as a quote by Will Rogers. While I do not particularly care for the actor, I do resonate with his words. I have always wanted to help people in every aspect I could. Since the path to the medical field is a long one, I satisfy my need to help others through aiding them with whatever troubles they have. When first presented with the idea of homosexuality, I only accepted it as another part of life. It was discovering the injustice in LGBTQ community that created an activist within me. It wasn’t until eleventh grade that someone challenged my beliefs. His comments started slowly with opinions and thoughts on homosexuality. Naturally, I
The boy’s comments went against two of my cherished beliefs; that I would be able to keep the people I loved from harm, and that people identifying with LGBTQ are never sinning or wrong. I found myself drawing up an argument that would be collected and serve reason. It was later that day when I found myself asking him how he could believe a person was “wrong” for something they could not control when theoretically he was sinning by choice. After an hour of debating the ideology of the scripture, we were able to agree to two terms. The first being that he was entitled to his own beliefs but targeting others was not necessary and irresponsible. The second being able to get him to admit that same-sex marriage was something that did not directly affect him. Due to this, he was able to accept homosexual couples even though he still believed them to be sinning. While these victories almost seem shallow, I was proud that I was able to slightly open his eyes and stop him from harming others with his opinions and ideology. This experience reaffirmed my ideas and proved that by staying firm in beliefs would continue to make the world a more tolerable