The majority of people throughout
the world have a dream to come America. Since it is the country of immigrants,
everybody feel safe to be here. Despite this fact, if you are the one like me
in H4 status, it must be heart wrenching for you to pass even a single moment
in the United States. This country is set up in such a way that whoever comes
here carry a big dream. Yes, I was one of them, but unfortunately for a moment
my dream was totally broken into pieces because of my status. Although I knew
that coming United States in H4 status would prohibit me from working and
earning even a single dollar, I never took it seriously because I believed in
myself. My ambition to achieving more induced me to assert that those narrow
words cannot bind my vision of life. My pursuit of experiencing American dream
made me unsighted for a moment. After coming here, there was a moment when I
was panicked, frustrated and depressed because of not being able to make my
life self-sustainable as I had wished for. However, later on I realized
everything happens for a reason. In fact, coming America was not an accident,
but was a privileged opportunity for me.
It is a human nature to expect
more than what we have already accomplished in our life, which is obviously not
a negative aspects of being human being. Your willingness to achieve more will
help you explore more opportunities in your life. If you look back towards
happy and sad moment or successes and failures in your life, then this will
provide the clue for what you have achieved and what things are still left to
be achieved. If you are prudent, you can use the lesson from your past which
will assist you to climb one more step in the ladder of your life. I was not
stable kind of person who liked to sit in home doing nothing. Even though, I
was not sure where I want to see myself after certain year, I always know that
what I will or what I am going to do next after finishing my present task. My
journey of America begins by achieving driving license, which I had mentioned
in the initial post of my blog "My Journey to America I". After, I
passed RN licensure exam from Texas Board of Nursing, I
started researching articles related to nursing and shortages of nursing in the
United States.
During this journey, I began
writing my blog, which helped me realize that I enjoyed writing and
researching. Additionally, I engaged myself working as a volunteer and
participated several free seminars/training related to healthcare and nursing.
I got opportunity to meet really the incredible people who had inspired and
appreciated my work. However, after certain time I felt like what next? I
cannot deny the fact that I will not be able to spend my whole life by doing
volunteering work, somewhere the feelings of not having productive life used to
kill me. I was slowly understanding how it felt to be dependent and not allowed
to work (because of H4 status) despite your expertise in the most demanding
field. Initially, I did not take seriously for the crisis that I was going
through and questioned myself why I am thinking like this?, Is it only me in
such situation?, why even a small thing irritates me?, etc. Then, after seeking
helps from my former teachers, friends, family, relatives and similar interest groups,
I made determination to pursue master degree. At this time, when I turn around
and look back for each and every phase, I feel that these moments of ups and
downs matters a lot to me and these experiences have been lucrative to me.
Despite whining for what you
cannot do in your H4 status, you can make your journey of America worthwhile by
engaging yourself in some sort of activities which you really enjoy doing most.
Indeed, blaming yourself that you cannot do anything because you are not given
permission to work is just an excuse, but not a reason for impeding your
potential. You just need to set broad horizon to open the door of your own
scope and to enlighten the prospective of being you.
"I have no special talents. I am only
passionately curious."
-Albert Einstein
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