During my emerging adulthood years, I made the decision to get a college degree and stayed close friends with Alex and made a new friend in college, Sarah. I also exercised and ate well and consulted with a doctor every now and again. I believe these choices made the most impact on my life. I believe this because whenever I had a hard time I would either go to Alex or Sarah and talk, they were a huge support. I also had great physical health and mental health in my late adulthood more than likely helped by the good health habits in emerging adulthood. I think that staying good friends with my high school best friend Alex helped me get through difficult times. Even though we started to drift apart, I wanted to stay friends because we promised, and did not want growing up to grow us apart.
I chose not to have children for the MVL program but if I had to pick an age of when to have children, I would have chosen around 31. I would have chosen this age because I had received my masters and my husband, and I were financially stable. This is also around the time we decided to sponsor an orphaned child through an organization. The stress of work was high at times due to being laid off due to economic pressure, but I overcame this by asking my employer what I could have done to improve and seeking counseling. I never wanted to dwell on what went wrong but learn from my mistakes.
More my middle adulthood years I stayed at the same job. At one point I was considering leaving but decided to stick around and was rewarded with a promotion. Also, my husband and I were considering divorce after a year of counseling but decided to stick together. This turned out to be a good decision because after working through the issues, we felt reenergized in the marriage.
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During my late adulthood I was able to maintain my friendships with Alex, Sarah, and my family. My husband developed stage 1 lung cancer due to second hand smoke but was in remission after a year of treatment. My brother develop melanoma but was successfully treated and I made sure to make doctors appointments to make sure I was still healthy. My high school best friend Alex also developed cancer that was too late to treat. I took this news difficult and cried and talked to family members and Sarah to help cope.
I had helped my father in his later years and I believe helping him helped me know my limits in late adulthood. I asked for help when needed but tried to do as many things on my own. I did get on a step ladder to get cobwebs and fell but did not break any bones but was sore for a couple of weeks. There were moments where I was sad about my passed about what I did and did not do but I did not want to dwell, so I went to counseling to help get over these feeling and it worked. I was quickly back to my happy eager self. Although I think what could have led to some more despair over integrity might have been the decision to not have switched to a different job during my middle adulthood years.
This is the only things I can think of because this is the thing that gave me most of my stress even though I nipped the problem in the butt. If I had to make a decision differently during the MVL program, I would have chosen to have children. I would make this choice different because I would have liked to see how myself and my husband handled the pressure of raising children and the feeling after they leave, empty nest. I also would like to have seen how children might have affected finical stability especially into my late adulthood. Overall I found this MVL program fun and am sad it is over.
