My Future Passion

I am a junior in high school, I have no idea what I'm going to wear tomorrow, let alone what I really what to accomplish in my life. Sure I have hopes, dreams, and wishes, every teenager does.

With a whole decade under my belt, and only four more years till my next, I still have no idea what that "Great Big World" is like. I was blessed with a miracle for a sister. She may not be able to communicate with word of mouth, or play intense sports, or even walk straight at all times. She is the main drive behind my goals and what I want my future to be involved with.

The field of education that I hope to reach to the highest degree is called FMD (Function Mental Disability), this field involves helping and teaching children with mental and physical disabilities. These disabilities are too serious to allow the students in everyday classes. My sister is one of these children. Since she was diagnosed with severe epileptic seizures with a small case of cerebral palsy on her left side. She has been put in a classroom off to the side with other incredible individuals that are her closest friends and peers.

It hard to put in words exactly what my life is like. I don't know how to describe certain circumstances that seem unreal to others my age, when that is all I know. Parents want to be able to share their attention to every one of their children my brother and me wouldn't know what to do if we got it anyway, don't get me wrong, me and my brother would both give up anything our parents give to us just to see Melodee smile. I didn't always believe that a smile would make the darkest moments the brightest but witnessing hers is exactly what it does. Just being in her presence, brightens anyone's day.

The only thing that I truly dislike in the system is that these children are left in the corner room off to the side, forgotten. They aren't literally forgotten, but it still seems like this program is still in the early 1900s, where the not so perfect individual is kept secret and out of "normal society". I know this isn't what happens now, because these actions are for the protection of the students with disabilities.

When Melodee walks the hallways in her school, she doesn't get to experience the crowds and the laughter and conversations that take place in the lapse of five minutes. Granted she would probably be trampled, but to her I imagine school is a small room that's it, she never gets to see past peers that attend everyday classes.

My one goal behind my passion in FMD, is to educate not only the students I may have, but also to educate the students throughout the entire school. I want to be able to provide experiences with special individuals that are born into unwanted circumstances and how they never complain about the petty obstacles that we moan and groan about on a daily occurrence. I want to share the amazing gift I was given when I was blessed with my sister.