This Is Me

Gabrielle Faith DeSisto
22 years old

why am I a youth development major?
  hmmm well it didn't start of that way and college wasn't in the plan back then, but something sparked in me. My life experiences and working and being around children got me here. long story short I want to help children achieve the happy and successful life they deserve. Everyone is dealt life cards many of them unfair, but these cards we don't choose. We can't be in control of everything that is going to happen in life. The choice we do have is how to respond to what happens, how we play our cards we're dealt. I was given pretty shitty cards when I was 14 years old and I responded the only way I knew how. I was angry, hurt, confused and I still am. However I change my mind which in return changed my life. I am choosing to ignore the pain and use it as motivation to success because I am always going to be angry. My goal in life is to be that helping hand for children. I know from my own life that you cant be told how to act, how to feel, what to think. Sometimes all you need is people who are there for you to make you feel less alone. So many children out there aren't being talked to because parents think their to young to understand. That isn't true children know and they feel things and they need to be talked to. They need people to talk to them instead of ignoring what's going on. So why did I chose this major? well because if I can help one child help themselves, spare them from going down the wrong path over circumstances they cant control then ill succeed in life. Children are the future and I don't believe they are born to be evil, hate and do some of the cruel things we see. I think society fails them and the only one to blame for their actions are ourselves.