“I always try to move forward, because when I stop moving, I stop living, discouragement and failure are options unenviable to me,” is my newest motto for my outlook on life. When my best friend passed away nearly three years ago, I learned that the life she was living was not her own, she had been taken over by the images portrayed by our surroundings and society. With time I came to the thought that her death was an accident, that no one is to blame, that it was her time to go. I can remember as if it was yesterday us talking about our futures, how many kids we would have, where we would live, what our husband’s would be like and what we wanted to be. She had answers for everything, as did I, but we couldn’t quite figure out what we wanted to be. I used to want to be a chemist or engineer something dealing with math and science. However she wanted to be great mother or an accountant. When she passed away abruptly, leaving behind so many unanswered questions, I’ll admit I was lost and hopeless, but I have decided that I want to give back to this world and make it a better place, reduce the fatality rate, reduce the pain and agony, because I know what those emotions and things feel like. I was a freshman then, and now I’m a senior, I now know I want to allocate in the medicine field. I want to push myself to the extreme and step out of my comfort zone and attend college, because I feel I am prepared and ready. Without a higher education I cannot better myself, my future family or even the world. The medical field will always be around because somewhere someone will be ill or dying and I want to be able to be there and help them, whether it’s creating a cure or just easing their pain away. My past is not that grand, my present is motivating, but my future is what I have to look to forward to. Her death was a mishap but I’m thankful it happened because if it hadn’t then I wouldn’t be as career minded, focused or filled with so much desire to succeed in college. Life is filled with unexpected events; it’s what one does with them that impinge on the outcomes.