Politics of my life

What goes on in the world around our own is so magnificently important. We don’t realize as kids how important every step we take can be, our world our government our society it all fits together strangly like a puzzle piece next to another in our own world of puzzle. I noticed this more after 9-11 im sure like many people all around the world, there was a certain type of clear vision.
It is not just what happens in our community but it goes so much more Global than that, after visiting India for the first time in the 9th grade I realized life is much more in depth then we make it out to be. I have a very different feel because I come from a family that is not originally from here, I have seen the struggles and hardships my parents faced. Studying about our government and the government and politics of other countries draws me in because there is so much good but equally bad in every country. The amount of corruption draws me in to list so many questions.
I really enjoy taking Political Science classes or anything that involves global studies. I was never interested before but 9-11 had a different impact on me and my family, we are Americans raised here from a small age but we are Muslim. We got treated like we were bad people, I never understood why or what it had to do with me or my family I always thought “were not Arab we are from India!?” After 9-11 many family friends had a lot of problems living in a peaceful atmosphere which is understandable to a point, but very unfair on the other hand. I sit here watching the elections and Barac Obama is now elected president. This is historical event that will forever be in our nations history books. The memory of this event will never be forgotten. The struggles of many people in the past is now at peace. The significance of this event to me is not about color but about truth and strength through our difficult times of our country and of our lives.
As a child I never knew the importance but today being so well educated for my own benefit I can say how proud I truly am and how my will has grown to succeed, and make a difference in bettering the poverty and corruption in our world. I have decided I want a career were I can travel and help those in need and help more with the curroption of the people. Today I can truly look back and say I have done my fair share of learning and educating myself to the point where I have formed my personality and found what I value the most out of life. I have also realized who I am as a person, and what really matters most to me at the end of the day. I truly think I can say that this is all I could really ask for at this point in my life.

Confusion of something called "culture"

Why is it that as human beings we go through all these strange phases. Its so inticing to me to know that my past is what made me the person I am today, but is it really necessary to go through the hard ships and obsticles to learn a real lesson? Coming from a family that was once very conservative and trying to adjust to the customes of all i knew was far more than two different worlds. So many obsticles from communication and following your dreams can sometimes even be a sin. But it amazes me that I have really held on to my culture and i look back today and realize how imporatant it is to me.



I sometimes wonder if the mistakes i made as a teenager would have been prevented if I would have been more intrested in where I came from and who i was then, but i feel like i have only figured out now who i am. My culture was the last thing that i wanted to give any attention to when i was a teenager. http://www.irhosp.ae/images/dynamic/polyclinic.jpg This link is a picture of the hospital that i was born at..but i know nothing of it I am not even Arab. I grew up as your avarage teenager except my family was so stricket that rebellion was my middle name. Growing up in Seattle i knew nothing about where i came from. When i was 15 we made our first trip to Dubai( place of my birth) and India http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/HaasGlobal/Hyderabad%20006.jpg

Shocked by what i saw around me the pollution the poverty and lets not forget the ridiculous amount of corruption that even as an outsider i could see so clearly i felt that i had really found the core of my being. I was shocked but i took me months and years to put what i saw in to perspective and incorporate it into who i am. Today I am so proud of the person that I am, I realized the mistakes i made trying to discouver myself as a teenager really did define me and If it wasnt for my cultural background and beliefs I would be a very different human being and i cant see myself any other way. I am ready to learn only more and work forward, I try and incorporate from aspects from my past and my culture into every aspect of my life today and for my future. My culture is one thing that will always stay strong with me!