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Personal Writing: James Marcia's Identity Status Of Moratorium - Papers

Personal Writing: James Marcia's Identity Status Of Moratorium

I think I am in James Marcia's identity status of moratorium. In
other words "crisis with no commitment." I am in what I feel is a crucial
decision making period of my life. I will graduate from Rock Valley at
the end of next semester with an Associate in Science degree. I do not
know where I want to go to school next year or what I want to major in.
Sometimes I wonder if I want to go to school at all. The problem is not
that I have had all these decisions thrown at me suddenly or unexpectedly,
it is that I have put off making them for four years now.

I know that I can do anything that I want to, that I have the
abiliy to successfully achieve anything I focus on. Is this egotism ...

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present life worrying about
how happy and successful I can make my future?

As you can tell I am overflowing with worries and questions. In a
way I almost wish I had the identity staus of forclosure pushed on me so
that my future is already planned for me and I could focus on one day at a
time. Then my egotism strikes again and I think to myself "I can go
farther than that." "Do not take the easy way out." The decisions I have
to make are helping to build character., I know, I know.

I need to be in the identity staus of identity achievement. To get
there I must put more faith into my decision making abilities and
ultimately into my decisions. I need to act now and worry later, change
what I do not like in my life, and focus on what I do like. I need to keep
in mind that no one can bring me happiness but myself and finally, I need
to remember that my already developed skills, as basic as they may be, my
family, and my friends will be there as a life vest to keep me afloat ...

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Added: 8/21/2004 05:24:19 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 458
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