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As we approach the end of the school year, and the end of our high school career, I think everyone is contemplating many different questions as they start the "rest of their lives". It is both a time of reflection and a time to look forward to everything we still have to do.
I have been contemplating what I want to do with the rest of my life, and why I think that matters. When I go to college, I am hoping to major in Biology and International Relations with a concentration in Public Health. Afterwards I plan to go to medical school, but I hope to work for a Non-Governmental Organization or the World Health Organization combining both my passion for international politics and my passion for biology. One thing I hope that I remember till I die, and am able to teach to my children, is that you should always remember to value the human community as a whole, and that everyone has the responsibility to help anyone they can - because everyone has the right to a their own safety, health, and the possibility of a good future. Since we have the ability to contemplate what is fair and what is moral, we must also have the strength to act upon those beliefs. That is (generally) something I have been thinking and reading about in the past year (check out Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah if you are interested). This is why I want to do what I want to do with the rest of my life; I feel very lucky that in high school I have found something that I am both interested enough in and passionate enough about that I want to dedicate my life to it.
Both doctors and diplomats seek to fix the problems of the world, and I hope to combine the two in my studies. I want to learn about these subjects that fascinate me from people that know much more than I do. I want to fight for these rights not only because I think that every human being should have those rights, but also that every healthy person helps not only themselves, but their society, country, and the world as a whole. Then, through policies combining both biology and international relations, do my part to make the world a better place.