How I Plan to Use Psychology in My Life

How I Plan to Use Psychology in my Life

          Psychology is a science that can be beneficial to several aspects of ones life. If someone were to specialize in a field requiring communication as their career, they would certainly be able to derive plenty of benefit from the study of psychology. In my life, I plan to do many things that psychology can play a role in, like become politically active, enjoy a career as a social worker, and possibly own my own comic book shop. By helping me understand how people think, psychology will come in great use throughout my life.

          According to my philosophy instructor, the world needs someone right now. Looking into the past, she selects people like Confucius and Martin Luther King Jr. Great philosophers like those would be appreciated in the current world. In the same conversation, she commended me on my views on various political aspects. As I move throughout the world, I can’t help but feel like I need to do something about all the terrible workings of people with their minds and hearts in the wrong place. I hear people all the time say things like, “How terrible, someone needs to do something.” People are always waiting for someone to take action. Everyone knows that there is no reason for gas prices to be soaring into orbit as they are, and everyone knows that something has to be done, however no one imagines that they themselves can do anything. Lately, I have been constantly feeling responsible for things like this. I see so many problems that the world is letting slip by, unnoticed. Children are being shipped to homes with terrible parents, religions and politicians are guiding the world to another war, censorship is being wrongly reinforced, people not guilty of any real crime are being imprisoned while murderers run free, people are birthing children into a hellish life, and everyone who notices doesn’t do anything about it. I feel that I need to do something about it, that it’s a crime for me to sit idly by while the world slowly descend into madness. In all honesty, if you don’t try to do anything about it, you can’t complain. I want to complain. I want to do something about it all, and psychology can help. If I can better understand the motives of people, I can rally them to a cause, or accuse them of their crimes more effectively.