Family and Individual Desires, Both Seen As One in My Eyes

 In all honestly the importance of my own individual desires and my family do not differ. Both my family and my own desires are extremely important to me. In a way they both kind of reflect off of each other. My own individual desires of going to college, continuing to play softball in college, graduate college,becoming a physical therapist, then sometime along the way find the love of my life and start a happy family, is just as important as my family. My individual desires were inspired by my family, and all i want to do is make them proud. They play a huge role in my life. Without them i seriously don't know where or what i'd be doing right now. I thank god for giving me this wonderful family that i have. I'm truly blessed. They encourage and support me in everything and anything i do and i'm so grateful for that. That's why its so important for me to go off and be the first one in my family to go to college. To make something of myself, so that i can grow and support my own family as well as trying to payback my family for everything they've done for me. To be successful and make my family as proud as they can possibly be is also apart of my individual desires. So right there you can kind of see where they reflect off of each other, because my family influences my individual desires. Growing up, my family would always overuse the sayings "blood is thicker than water" and "family first". They also told me that what i want is super important, and that i should never let anyone tell me i cant do something.That i can do anything i put my mind to. So i guess you can say that my family has led me to believe that family and individual desires are just as equally important. So that's why in my mind neither one is of more importance compared to the other. They are seen as one in my eyes.