Melissa Ifill, LCSW
  • Home
  • Work With Us
    • Work With Melissa
    • Work with Sandra
    • Work With Monique
    • Work with Elaine
  • Appearances
  • R.A.W.: Real, Aware & Whole
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Who is Melissa

Blog Posts 

Flashback: Where's My Locker?

9/22/2019

0 Comments

 

This 'Flashback' is written by 11 year old Morgan S. Morgan's thoughts are the inspiration for my September blog, 'Purpose, Passion & Paper', about identifying what drives you and understanding if you can earn income from it. In  this piece, Morgan reminds us what it was like to be our younger self and some of the pressures that may not have given us the permission we needed to explore. 

High schools prepare students for college the minute their freshman year starts. The clubs you join, the tests you take, the credits you need. It's all for that ground breaking scholarship you could get if you just work hard and study. Because that's your goal in life. Getting into Harvard. It's the one thing you strive for.

Right?  But is it? And even if it is, what exactly do you plan to do after? What do you plan to do during?

So many people get caught up in getting into that one ivy league college that they, either don't consider or, completely forget why they would even go. What would they want major in? What job they'd go for after? The thought of actually considering what they'd be interested in is completely forgotten. So when they do end up in College they have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Everything they did in high school was for college. Nothing was out of pure curiosity. Therefore, they don't know what they want, or like. No one ever pushed it on them, and so school is all they know because the time they could have used to find themselves they used to plan for 'future' without thought of what it would/could look like or what makes them happy

Read More
0 Comments

    Archives

    August 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019

    Author

    Melissa Ifill, LCSW

    Categories

    All
    BGCC
    Black Wellness
    Choosing A Professional
    Coping Skills
    Freedom
    Holidays
    Inner Child
    Money
    Pain
    Pain Management
    Passion
    Popular Culture
    Purpose
    Race
    School
    Slavery
    South Carolina
    Therapy For Black Girls

    RSS Feed

Copyright 2021 Melissa Ifill
  • Home
  • Work With Us
    • Work With Melissa
    • Work with Sandra
    • Work With Monique
    • Work with Elaine
  • Appearances
  • R.A.W.: Real, Aware & Whole
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Who is Melissa