My Support Groups

Life Skills and Timeline
This essay explores my support groups, their attributes, my stressors, coping skills, long and short term goals that require money, income, and a living plan in order to identify, comprehend and apply skills for self-improvement to function adequately in society. My support group is comprised by my family, especially my parents, my friends, church members, school counselor and dean, and some of the teachers. I don’t even know where to start in order to describe how important and supportive these people are in my life. Each and everyone of them has provided me with at least one of the following: emotional (nurturance), informational (guidance), companionship (association) and/or tangible support (financial assistance).

My friends are great companions, they are caring, understanding, and are always there if I need them. They bear with me through the hard times, and celebrate the good times. Moreover, I included church members because they have a huge influence in who I’m, they encourage me to be better everyday, impart spiritual support which is significant for me, in addition of having fun while doing it. On the other hand, my school counselor, dean and teachers have taken the time to assure I’m doing well in school, to built a safe environment where I feel comfortable, and also provide me guidance and counseling. All of this has helped me to feel loved instead of excluded, acknowledged instead of ignored, important rather than worthless, basically it gives me life. Why else would I want to be alive if not because I feel a sense of belonging in this earth? This is what gives me happiness and motivation to do the things I do. But this doesn’t mean I have a perfect life. I have to deal with hassles on a daily basis. Numerous things stress me out such as sitting, standing, or eating in a crowded place, speaking English with new people because I’m afraid they’ll have a hard time understanding me, being stared at, doing my homework, and above all, thinking about the

As I mentioned before, the future is a key source of stress for me, and the worrisome consists of various events related to money. I need money to afford going to College, University, to buy school supplies, to live on my own, food, clothing, entertainment, and more. I’ve studied harder this last year of high school hoping to get financial aid or a scholarship, in addition to that, I’ve been working in a paid school program to help pay for my expenses and save a little away for later. In five years I see myself as a college graduate with a major in biology, halfway through medical school, living on my own in a economic modest home with my fiance who I expect to not waste money on figurines or any other thing like my brother; yes, the last point is an actual concern of mine, I’m not trying to be silly. I aspired to be free of debt at that point of my life, yet it seems a bit unrealistic, not impossible though. Right now, I’m managing my time to meet school deadlines and work time, while preparing my flight to the next phase in my life as an adult and College