Jennilyn M. Calma Dr.

Arsenio
BS-Biology 1-1
Psychological Biography
In the book of general psychology, the word
self is defined as the individuals own characteristic
frame of reference, determining how to perceive
and react to ones environment we have as we
grow as a person. Every individual has its own
unique characteristic and as for myself, I want to
share my perspective through this psychological
biography not only for others purposes and gain
but also for me to have great realization of myself
who I truly am.
As individuals, we may get our behavior on
the genes that we had acquired from our parents
but most of the time, our behavior built based on
the environment where we grow. Having
understood the persons root of existence can give
you a key of his or her personal thoughts, behavior and attitude. I grew up from the
simple and normal yet full of love and built by God family. My father, Carlos, was just an
ordinary construction worker before and his salary was enough to feed us five child of
him and his wife. He is a fairly-easy going parent. Though he did not finish his studies,
he makes it up to us to be a responsible father. He was diligent person that he cannot
live a day without accomplishing anything even if he has a sick. I admire him for being
tough to situations that challenging us. He was also the one who open our minds about
God. He gets angry to us whenever we are lazy to attend a Sundays mass when we
were young. My mother, Solainie, the most thoughtful woman Ive ever met. She never
fails to serve us food, clothes and everything that we need. Shes joyous person and
she always tries to have a humor moments with us together with my father. Just like my
father, she is hardworking person. She scolded us whenever we didnt learn how to deal
with simple chores in our house. We are five siblings made by love.
In the first phase of my life, I did not regret having here in our socio-active
community. Childhood memories seem to be good for me here. I always play with other
children outside our home the usual larong pinoy games such as piko, patintero,
tumbang preso, Chinese garter, bahay-bahayan and have other kids stuff.
Sometimes, when my mom would not al or with my younger sister, Mary Jo low me to
play with my friends outside, I got to play either with myself y. She was three years
younger than me. Shes my sister close to my age yet stone-throw from my heart. I
didnt know if it is because shes the youngest among us five siblings. It was just that
she always pisses me off. I am older than her but still she was like a boss. Shes
annoying. I can still remember her not calling me ate before like the usual siblings do.
Well, that was past. She had grown now. She can now share stories that we can relate
to each other. Shes an extrovert person. She loves to hang-out with people and have
the usual things of this generation have. Shes very curious in ambiguous things in this
world yet she would forget about it when you answer her and she would ask for it again
and again. Anyway, my childhood life taught me to be open to the world and interact
with others aside from the usual people around our home. The activity of my childhood
life marks my own to be friendly, cooperative, discipline and independent.
When I grew few years older, the great twist in my life happen. From being so
much friendly Lelen, (my childhood nickname), I became less. Studies became my
focus and priority since I got the 2
nd
rank in my 5
th
grade class. I seldom get-along with
my friends in neighbor because I prefer to read books. I realized that my time would
better spend in studying than hanging around. I am an ambivert person but my introvert
personality became dominant in this time. I want to do some things all alone. It is easier
for me to work on my own than in pair or group. For me, others would only not deal on
my opinion so it is better if I got to do it myself. Aside from that, I easily get irritated with
annoying people so I dont want to be one. If my opinion is not needed, I better shut my
mouth off. I am taciturn especially when I am not in mood or I didnt know the person
well. When I am with my close friends, I became loquacious, I talk to them like theres
no tomorrow.
In this age, I felt for the first time the feeling of having an infatuation. I got
attracted to less handsome yet a very smart, generous and sympathetic boy named
John who happened to be my seatmate/ close friend. He never fails to make me smile.
Hes fond of sharing corny joke and if I didnt laugh, he would just tickle me because he
knew its my weakness. He inspired me to strive hard in my study. I started to be more
responsible student not only for myself but also for my schoolmate. I joined the
Supreme Pupil Government (SPG) to serve my fellow student and to enhance
leadership skill in myself. Through hard work, I got the 6
th
honorable mention when I
graduated in elementary level.
On the other hand, the situation that I considered to be the first almost
breakdown of our family had happened. My father had his heart attack. You could see
sadness in each member of our family when he was confined. We are that much close
to our father so losing him is hard for us. Aside from that, he was the one working to
raise our family. My two elder sisters were in college while my younger sister and I were
grade-schoolers. We were in the edge of losing hope but still there is God who gave us
strength. In that moment, we held back our tears and found ourselves holding our own
hand, praying. God did not disappoint us. Fortunately, my father survived. Since then,
our family became more faithful to God. Aside from attending the Sundays mass, we
also had our night prayer together every day. We didnt take the opportunity for granted.
It opens our mind that we should be thankful every second for every breath we take. We
should be thankful that He still gives us the people that mean much into our lives. We
didnt know exactly what could be happen. What if we woke up today with only the
things we have thanked God yesterday? Every second and every little thing in our daily
life is a gift thats why today is called present.
People come and go in our lives. Some stays but many were leaving. Nothing is
permanent in this world. As I step into a higher year of education, I met new people,
new faces with different perspective, behavior and goals in life. The pressure became
greater in high school because I fortunately belonged to Special Science class. I explore
the new world of school and I found out that students here were more competitive than
before. Some judge me according to the clothes I wear. Fashion is my passion. I want
to be well-groomed and organize in anyones eyes because it is one of my personalities.
I love to have beautiful and gorgeous dress that fits into mine. I easily got insecure to
the stunning ladies I met anywhere. I feel pity on my own because I am the most loyal
and first fan of myself. I need to love myself and be contented of what I have because I
am unique.
My third fan is my bestfriend Rezza. In my first week of classes in high school, I
got along with her since she was my former classmate during elementary. She is a very
bubbly lady who has a talent in singing. Although she was quite popular in our school,
she still stays with ordinary girl like me. A very convivial individual, Rezza always greet
every people that we met in our ways. Shes the only girl in their family aside from her
mom so I treat her like a sister, as well as she to me. As the time goes by, we found
ourselves compatible with each other and there built our camaraderie. We are that
much close so we are comfortable to share each others secrets and stories. She has
this massive role in my life because almost four years of my life, I have her in my side.
In good and bad times, shes with me to give me advices and cheer me up through her
songs.
Though we belonged to the cream of the crop section, we still manage to have
fun time with our other friends and didnt miss the chances of happiness and freedom of
being a high school student. For the second time, I fell in love with the same guy that I
had met in the past, John. After one and a half years, I already got news and had a
communication with him. I didnt know if I consider it as a good or bad news, he entered
a seminary school and decided to be a priest. I did not bother to ask him why because I
am contented with the fact that hes back. In that point of time, I am thinking of being a
nun. That decision was not only in favor to him but also to God. It came into my mind
that I want to serve Him also. We almost had two years communication. He tried to
court me but I am not ready for having committed into a relationship yet. When I built
courage to tell him what I feel, I refuse because I think he gave up on me. One of the
greatest fears in my life is to be rejected of people I love. If I think that someone didnt
like me, I will not come near to him/her so that he/she would not judge me of who I am. I
already know where it goes so I decided not continuing it. I realized that if I persist to
have attachment with him, it would be probably difficult for me to let him go when he
needed to.
As for my studies, getting into a higher year became harder for us to survive
since we have to maintain higher grades especially now that we have a scholarship
from De La Salle University named Operation Big Brother. It offered us great
opportunity in studying. We received a school supplies from them yearly as well as
projectors, computers and other books. We had our values formation every week
headed by one of the DLSU-OBB instructor where we got to know ourselves more as
individuals not only for ourselves but also to our friends, different group, grown-ups,
community and to our country. We also had a youth and discovery camp. Youth camp
to be more familiarized and have a great relationship with God while discovery camp for
us to be molded strong as a group.
As the time goes by, I got lazy in studying. There was a time that I feel tired and
sick in studying and I need to cope up with the moments I had missed. I think I am
pressuring myself much to be in honor roll. I could see other high school student being
cool in their lives and not troubling about the usual problem that I got to. I want to be in
top but on the back my mind I am thinking that I could get much learning through my
experiences than memorizing the theories inside a book. Whats more important in our
life is the applied skills we have acquired through studying and the words we got in
principles are just a second. I just enjoyed the latter part of my high school life with
extra-curricular activities in our school.
To serve to my fellow students and comrades is my thing. Though I am not that
popular, I tried to run in two consecutive elections of Supreme Student Government.
Fortunately, I became a representative of our batch. I believe that election is neither a
popularity test nor a beauty contest. I believe that they voted me because they have a
trust that I can serve them whole-heartedly. I dont have a bunch of friends or
acquaintances in our school. I grew up as a very bashful person. I am afraid speaking in
front of a crowd and I have less self-confidence. I took this as a challenge. I must be
brave to lead and tough to conquer whatever fights with my followers because being
leader is having a power to lead and having a power comes a greater responsibility.
Being SSG officer, I became more responsible in every task that given to me. It boosts
my self-esteem. I learned to become considerate, discipline, humble and loyal in serving
other people.
It became hard for me to get out into my comfort zone when I graduated high
school. Four years seem to be short for us to be together but long to know each other
very well. We had parted our ways to reach our goals and fulfill our dreams. Another
world is waiting for me, the world where I want to be in the future. I decided to take BS
Biology. I want to pursue my dream to become a doctor of medicine. I cant wait to see
myself many years from now that I am working as a doctor on one of the prestigious
hospitals here in the Philippines. I want to serve peoples lives as well as God. I want
each of my patients to thanked God for saving them and giving them hope to live
another chance of their life. I want them to realize how great Gods love is.
Furthermore, I realized that being a priest, pastor or nun are not the only occupation
that you can take to prove that you love God and willing to serve Him. You can be any
of the professionals and let God to be the center of your career.
As for my family in the present, my father stop working since my two elder sisters
have their work already. My closest sister, Jennifer, is a call-center agent of Maersk
Company and the other, Mary Grace, a social worker of Non-Government Organization
Company. We continue to be more productive for each other and also for the gratitude
to our parents.
Events that happened throughout my life can be anything or everything in
knowing who am I and who I will become. Triumph and loss situation of my past can be
a key for me to gain knowledge for my future development. Today, I can say that I have
been grown physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. I have been become more
aware of what are happening inside and outside my shell. Based on my observation of
my own biography, I can truly say that most behavior of an individual is not naturally
born. It is based on how we deal with people and situation in our environment. Self-
realization through words is not my thing but I still endeavor to make it at my best.
Analyzing individuals own behavior is not easy because of the prejudice and biases I
could make. This biography didnt tell the whole happening of the evolution of my
psychological behavior. Perhaps, this is just a summary of whom I am in the past that
could be the reason why I am now in the present. I did not regret all of bad and good
moment of my life because I learned a lot of thing from these that can be treasure and
guide as I continue living my life made by God.