Essay About Self Esteem

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As I grew up in Korea, I was born with physical disabilities with my right side of the body, because my parents told me that there was an accident when I was born during that time. My parents noticed that I have a physical disability when I was about age 4 or 5, and they were working hard to find the ways for treatment for my right side of the body. Furthermore, some people did not respect people who have physical disabilities in Korea about 11 years ago, so my parents had lower self esteem, but they have not given up on me. During my childhood, my mom was very heart broken because how I have to face the burden in my life, but she encouraged me to be positive and get lots of physical therapy in the hospitals so that my right hand and leg might …show more content…

My parents decided to go to the United States for my education and a better life because Korea did not have good programs for people who suffered from disabilities. Therefore, they have given up many things just for me so I felt very thankful for them until now because they took an action for me and my sister’s educations and improvement of my self-esteem. I was feeling hopeless in my life in Korea, because I could not build any social bonds with my peers, so that I felt loneliness all the time. However, my self esteem is getting better and better within my adolescence and emerging adulthood because most of my high school and college friends were not judging me as physical disabilities. Therefore, I felt very connected within social bonding with my peers during my middle school, high school years and until now as well. Also, I had felt confident myself about my life within college careers as well, because I had found what I want to do for my career and wanted to help people who feel in depression about their life. I wanted to be a guide that I could help them to recover their self confidence and hopes in the future. Therefore, my life had been shown improvement such as more as I grew throughout my adolescence and emerging adulthood, because I gained the other perspective toward how other people views about disabilities. They encouraged each other people who had disabilities so that they could also be successful in the

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