Sometimes I'm so scared about my future. Am I really going to change the world as I and everyone expects... Then there is college. I'm so looking forward to Regis University! There are so many opportunities there, it just costs soooooo terrible much! :(
I am also seriously thinking about being a nun, but you have to be debt free and in this day and age that is nearly impossible!!
I get so angry with the world sometimes because there are to many rich people and to many poor people. Why must there be people who are obese while others die because they don't have enough food. Why must there be people with three houses while others must stand in-line at the soup kitchen.
Why do I have to be up to my eyes in debt while others parents can pay for their education, no sweat.

i just have to focus on the positive.

My purpose in life is to love and serve God. I am to love and serve other people as well.

I care most about and love to help people. This will help the world because others will see the kind of joy that I get from helping other that they will want to do it as well. In addition, if everyone just helped everyone else the world would be a much better place.
I feel that my actions do demonstrate this because I am actively invloved in my social justice team at my chruch. I also try to go to my local soup kitchen on the days that my church is there. In addition, I volunteer at a Senior Dinner that my church hosts every month.

My ideal job would be to work for Invisible Children. I would love to work with them be it in the office, as a roadie, or in Uganda. I would also go to school. I love to learn about things that I am passionate about like nursing, theology, and social justice.
Most likely, I would work for Invisible Children during the day and take classes during the nights and weekends. It would be so nice because I love Invisible Children and I love to learn. I could finally be paid to go to school instead of paying for it! In addition, I have always wanted to make social justice something that I do full time.

    I grew up somewhat comfortably. In the early part of my childhood, my dad's business was doing well, so well that we took a trip to Europe when I was just about to turn ten years old. It was an amazing trip and I learned so much about life and the world.
    While we were there, we visited Notre Dame. It was so beautiful even though I did not fully appreciate its beauty at the time. One thing that I do remember was that there was an older man standing outside of the front doors to this magnificent cathedral. He held out his right hand and with the other, he held onto his seeing-eye stick. He did not speak at all; he just stood there quietly and patiently waiting for someone to notice him. I walked passed him on my way out of the door with my mom and we stopped just beyond him, waiting for the rest of my family to catch up. I can remember that the rest of my family was talking about where to go next and I just stood there looking at him. Suddenly something just snapped in me, "Please Daddy can I have some francs to give to that man?" I distinctly remember seeing his hands as I gave him the coins. I remember feeling a pride because I had done something so grownup and seeing him walk away made me feel so happy that I had just paid for that man's meal.
    I believe in helping people. I think that it should be an instinctive thing to do. I think that you should never think about what you could get in return, you should just do it. You need a piece of paper; I have a whole stack of paper. You need a blood transfusion; here have a pint on me. You are really hungry; I have some chips in my bag. You need to talk to someone; I have two ears.
    My time at St. Mary's High School has refined the way I look at help. In the first part of my junior year, I was fortunate enough to see the movie Invisible Children. This movie reinforced my philosophy of helping others. Of course, it was hard to resist helping those children; they had absolutely nothing while I have absolutely everything I need. This movie also introduced me to social justice, athough I did not know it at the time.
    In the second sememster of my junior year, my theology class focused on social justice. It was then that I learned that what I was involved in with Invisible Children was social justice. I also learned that social justice, in its essence is helping people. That theology class also taught me that social justice is a main component of Catholicism. It was wonderful to find out that what I was now very passionate about was right in line with my faith.
    My faith is very important to me. I am very proud to call myself a Catholic, and I hope that I can always live up to the call. I look at a friend of mine that does not have a faith and her life is a bit crazy. I do not want to judge at all, but I cannot help but wonder that if she believed in something with all of her heart, her life would be much easier. I have gone though much harder things than she has and I have dealt with them much better than she ever would.
I believer that this is because I have more of a faith than she does.
    St. Mary's is very dear to me. I love the fact that I can get a very good education there and I can learn about my religion. I feel that because of my education at St. Mary's, I am a better person. I can face the different obstacles in my life and know that I can get through them. It also helped me realize that I should look into becoming a nun. I feel that this is the only way that I can help people full time and serve God at the same time.