The Importance Of A Personal Journey

We are Unique

A journey is when exposure to events leave impressions on you, thus creating your unique individuality. Internal journeys have an impact on you because the lessons learned stay with you forever, and help form who you are. Physical journeys leave impressions on you and what you learn is only relevant during that period of time, for instance if you are temporarily disabled. Internal and physical journeys aren’t usually experienced separately. Instead, they are intertwined and need each other for you to gain self-growth. An internal journey is more significant than a physical journey because it helps you discover unknown qualities of yourself.
The hidden qualities that define you can be discovered in multiple ways. In, “On Being

The depression started with hearing my doctor say that I needed ACL surgery again. The reason I was affected by depression this time, was he also said I could no longer play soccer. Therefore, I had no motivation to have a speedy recovery. Additionally, since I have always identified as an athlete I needed to rearrange my priorities and rethink my life choices. The second surgery was worse than the first because I knew how painful my recovery was going to be. I felt defeated because I knew I would be bedridden for more than three weeks. And it would take at least a year to fully recover and at the end I still wouldn’t be able to play soccer. Being bedridden and in a lot of pain affected my sleep, appetite and energy adding to my depression. I began to discuss my physical therapy regime with my physical therapist and developed an interest in PT. This interest has developed into a desire to become a Physical Therapist. Although this internal journey included painful weeks being bedridden, years of physical therapy and an identity change. It resulted in discovering the profession I wanted to be in and the intelligence to pursue it.
Uniqueness can be defined through the hardships you conquer or by how others perceive you. One way other people can identify you is by your cultural background. This is shown in “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston by her realizing that by her changing communities, people identified her based on her appearance and not by her personality or abilities. People categorized her by her appearance because that was how the community was organized, it was by race not by uniqueness. She related the thought of being known by your outer shell and what you possess by referencing a