Psy 240 Final

Shineaka Collins

Axia College

PSY/ 230

Robyn Meeks

Personal Narrative

October 15, 2011

Personal Narrative

While I am extremely shy most of the time I do have a fun personality. I make friends easily and for long periods. Over the past five years my life has changed in many ways. God has been a major influence of that change. Religion plays a major role in my life and I find that in religion I have solace in comfort. I am engaged and have one son that I live and will die for.

One person who motivates me intensely is author Iyanla Vanzant.. Her words speak to me and keep me going when I am at my lowest. Between her and God I find the strength to continue to better myself every day. She is a motivational speaker and her books are enlightening. Iyanla motivates me in ways I cannot begin to describe. I have come a long way in my life to being more open minded and sociable and I am happy with who I am today. Even so there are times in my life I wish I could change. I am shy and I am very low-key, deliberate, and relatively passive in social situations so without a doubt this would make more introverted than extroverted. However, my deepest desire is to become more extraversion. When it comes to my thought patterns and reasoning I am more abstract than tangible. Meaning that I draw conclusions from looking at the big picture and I believe in something’s without having proof. I'm more logical than empathetic when it comes to making decisions. I enjoy a thoughtful challenge and often use facts and reasoning to drive my decisions. My father abandoning my mother and siblings is why sometimes I feel anger to men. Having no brothers and all sisters made it harder to deal with men until God sent me my fiancé. Born and raised living with my African-American grandmother and not my Caucasian family (after my father left my mother left me and my siblings as well) I believe it made me a strong willed person. My grandmother was strong...