Personal Statement On Happiest Day of My Life

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Happiest Day of My Life

My life has been filled with so many happy days. I am twenty years old and have been through so much, which has formed me into the person I am. Although I have many different happy memories, one stands out more than any of the others. I feel that the happiest day of my life is the day I realized what I wanted to spend my life doing. Many people my age do not know what they want to do with their life, but I feel as though I know. Many events and days led up to what I now view as the happiest day of my life.

Since I was twelve, I have been around small children. My sister who is now nine was born when I was twelve, and my brother, who is now four, was born when I was sixteen. I took on the role of raising them both due to the poor choices of my mother. I enjoyed every minute of time I received with both of my siblings, and everything raising them young has taught me. Being around my siblings opened my eyes to the world of children. Raising, helping, guiding, teaching, and loving on the smaller humans of the world, brought a new kind of happiness to my eyes. Even though the day I felt this way was eye-opening, it was not the happiest I have had. This was the start of a long happy journey.

In eighth grade, I started a small private school in my hometown. Since this school was so small, Pre-k through twelfth grade was held at one campus. When I moved to the night grade, which is considered high school, we got out of school an hour earlier than lower grades. During this time, most students would simply leave campus for the day, or shoot a basketball in the gymnasium. Instead of choosing to leave or do sporting activities, I chose to spend my time in another classroom. Every day at two o’clock, I would go to the lower building and help the teacher in the pre-k classroom. Every day I would spend my afternoon reading a book to these kids before it was time for them to pack up and go home. I have many pictures and memories from this day. Each child held a special place in my heart with each hug and each sweet note I received during this time. Little did I know, each afternoon was a stepping stone for my future. For my junior and senior years, I was released from classes around lunchtime. For these two years, I still spent every afternoon in this classroom. At this point, the pre-k and kindergarten classes were combined and focused mainly on K-5 learning. I had the privilege to actually teach these children hands-on for two years. When I graduated, I was offered a job for the summer program, that was led by the school I attended. I had the title "Pre-k / Kindergarten Lead Counselor”. For the past three summers, I had this role at the day camp, and I enjoyed every moment. You never realize how much small things can change your life for the better. All the years I have spent with kids, led me up to the happiest day of my life. Last year I was offered a full-time job teaching two-year-old at First United Methodist Preschool. I was so very excited and counted down the days until I started. At this time, I was still raising my three-year-old brother, and working at a preschool, while babysitting on the side for the kids I had at the summer camp. Due to coronavirus, my year was cut short, and it took a lot from me. I slowly started to feel like kids were not who I wanted to spend my days with, and that maybe I was not where I wanted to be. During the summer I received a call from my boss at First United Methodist Preschool, telling me that she wanted to assign me to a preschool classroom for the following school year (currently). I was very nervous, and I was not too sure if it was best for me, as I felt like working with kids was not for me after all. Approximately one week later I received a call from a parent at First United Methodist Preschool and a friend of a parent of a former student in my two-year-old class. She told me that her friend recommended me to her and she wanted to hire me as her nanny after I got off of my pre-k teaching job. I accepted the job and decided I would try both new things this year and see how I felt. On the first day of the school year, every kid that came in with a smile on their face, a hug with open arms, and every grateful heart that walked through that door made me realize that this is what I wanted for the rest of my life. This day was the happiest day of my life. That afternoon I started working for Parker, for who I was hired to be a nanny for and it was confirmation that I was exactly where I was supposed to be.

I am currently still a pre-k teacher at First United Methodist Preschool, and I am currently still a nanny for Parker where I keep a two-year-old child, and soon to be a newborn baby. When people ask me why I do what I do, my mind goes back to that first day in August of 2020. So far in my life, I feel that was the happiest because, after a long journey of trying to decide what was best for me, it was like a light at the end of the tunnel. My heart just knew that is what I wanted to spend my life doing. I want to start my mornings at work, giving out hugs, hearing the same stories over and over, continue my day teaching young minds, feeding small tummies, and end my day with another hug and a sense of relief that I love what I am doing.

In conclusion, I did not first realize that this was the happiest day of my life, it took a while to really think about it. I chose this day as the happiest because I soon came to the conclusion that everything, I had in mind to be the happiest all went back to the day I decided I wanted to teach kids for the rest of my life. Happiness for me came from deciding a major role in my life and understanding how it would help and guide me into the future. Kids are the happiness of my life, and the day I decided to grow with that was the happiest day of my life.