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My Birth
On July 4th I was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and I established all of my inborn reflexes, such as the rooting, sucking, grasping, moro, and the bakinski reflex. -
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My Parents
Parents and thier children do have ups and downs, and there were times when my parents made "orders" without telling me the logic or rationale behind these rules, and other times my parents would explain the rationale behind the rules set, and would adjust them according to my comfort, but overall I felt as though my parents were more authoritative than authoritorian, which helped my development as I grew up. Their way of raising me really helped me become resposible and independant. -
Potty Training
During my anal stage When I was a year old I was potty trained and I instantly began to use the toilet on my own, without the assisstance of another person. -
First form of education
When I was two I entered pre-school, where I started to establish motor development by drawing shapes and figures, and I started to engage in the sensorimotor stage, where I created my own schematas of my surroundings. I also learned to speak in English, and learnt my alphabets. This is when I am in my sensorimotor stage and I develop cognitive schemata that explained the world through my senses. This was also the time I developed object permenance and knew that objects do exist when absent. -
Primary School at AISJ
When I was four, I entered the American International School of Jeddah in which I experienced avoidant attachments: I would go to schooll right away without my parents' encouragement. I would enjoy going to school, and never showed any form of stress or anxiety. I started asking so many "whys" and wanted to know more about everthing since I was put in an environment where I was requied to learn and know about everything; which is known as the initiative vs. guilt stage. -
Beginnings of my Hobbies
During this time, I began to be included into so many different activities and I began to have many different tyoes of hobbies, such as swimming, ballet, drawing and gymnastics. According to the autonomy vs. shame and doubt contreversy I was able, during this time, to practice the skill of exerting my will over my body. -
Brother's Birth
When my brother was born, I began to feel more responsible. I felt it was my job to be a role model to my brother, and therefore would be more responsible of him, and acted as the adult I thought I should be. -
My Graduation from Elemtary
I established concrete operations as I graduated from elementary to Middle school. I began to think more logically of the relations between different chscteristics. During my years in elementary I surpassed the preoperational stage and developed my oral skills or language. -
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Formal Operations stage
I began to have adult and abstract reasoning starting from when I was in seventh grade, and I also developed metacognition later in my life when I turned twenty-four. -
Grandfather's Death
After my Grandfather's death, I felt the need to me a better daughter for his death affected my mother more than myself. I have never seen my mother cry except for the day she knew of my Grandfather's death, and I never wanted to see her cry or even feel sad again. Therefore I wanted to live up to her excpectations, and pursue her dreams of my success. -
Graduation from Middle School
After graduating from Middle School I started to feel like an adult, and therefore I began to reason like an adult. I was able to hve abstract reasoning, and "read between the lines". During Middle school I was really confused of who I wanted to be and the type of people I wanted to sit with, which is known as the identity vs. role confusion. This was the main reason why I would hang out with more than one group of people, but never felt comfortable in any of them becuase I was unsure of myself. -
The first trip without my parents
The first trip I had without my parents made me feel even more independant, and added the responsibility of myself during a time where I wouldn't depend on other people. -
Graduation from High School
The highschool graduation openened my eyes towards greater or even more sorrowful times to experience in my life. It was like a symbol of my independence and a life without my parents that may or may not lead to my success. During this time I started to establish my own identity, and felt "pressure-free" from my friends' expectations of who I should be. -
Moved to California
As I finished High School in Jeddah, I decided to move to California, to live and experience different cultures. This movement changed the way I percieved many things, such as what I wore and how I acted in public. It added or changed the schemas that I had of my behavior as a woman. -
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Gap Years
During this two year gap in which I lived in California, I began my first job as a realestate agent. It wasn't the job I have 'dreamed' of but it brought a lot of money, therefore I thought I would continue to be a realestate agent for the rest of my life. Generativity vs. stagnation played a large role in this part of my life because I was creating I path of my life in which I wanted to live a wealthy life, and began to do so everyday and night. -
Go to college to pursue my actual dreams
Also related to the generativity vs. stagnation contreversy, I did not enjoy my job, and therefore I wanted to change what I did, and get a certified education of what I truely love, which is art. I entered Yale University and moved to Conneticut, where I met new people and began a new life, of which I would enjoy. I really started to establish my identity, and cared more about my passions rather than my fortunes. -
Marriage
During this time, I fell in love and married a man while I was in college. It was a new experience for me, being a married woman, and getting an education at the same time (that was not the usual thing for many people). -
Graduation from College
This was the beginning of actually being a certified artist, and was like the first steps of bigger and better acheivements. -
Moved back to the Middle East
After living in a foreign country, and adapted to the community and culture, I moved back to the Middle East,it began to feel like a foreigner living in her own coutnry. I wasn't determined which cutlure I was fully engaged with, or whether or not I should have chosen my heritage or my perferred ways of living. The psychodynamic theory highly influenced my development when I moved back.The society and my own thoughts about gender highly influenced the way I acted and my development in the future -
Divorce
Becuase my husband did not want me to work I decided to get a divorce inorder to pursue my dreams. This made me a stiffer person, and my views of life changed completely. -
First Exhibition of my artwork in Dubai
This was the day all the hard work I have devoted to my only source of happiness and the only dream I had came true. It really showed me that my time in college wasn't wasted, and that people do get what they want if they look for it. I was motivated to keep pushing, especially that so many people attended my gallery. It was a house full of my work that people came and took time from their lives to just look at. I was so much more confident in myself, and I wanted to show more to the world. -
Contruction of artschool
After having my first gallery a success, I thought of other people, who shared the same dream, but didn't have the luxury of pursuing it as I did. I therefore constructed a school mainly created to give oppurtinities to those who were devoted to art and the expanding of their careers. When I bult the school I was in my postconventional stage, in which I have realised the ethical values of other people's right to learn what they want without the need of paying anything. -
Adoption of my first child
I have always wanted to have children, and during this time where I felt the need, or I felt it was my job to change people's lives. I wanted to take a person and transform their lives, therefore I adopted a young girl called Mariam. She was ten the day I adopted, and she was originally Brazillian. She grew up in a really rough community and was then taken away from her parents becuase they weren't capable of raising a child. -
Garduation of Daughter
It was the happiest day of my life. I have seen a girl transform from an orphan who had a complicated background to a beautiful, independent and successful high school graduate. She was like my inspiration to becoming a better person, and to never give up. -
First International Exhibition
This is when my career has expanded way beyond my own expectations. I couldn't believe the day I was invited to showcase my art in one of the most prestegious areas of Paris. I was more than honored, and felt even more successful than I ever thought I would be. -
Hajj
After having succeeded what I have set out to do, I felt that I should have devoted the rest of my life to God and religion. I began by going to Hajj for the first, and really as they say, it was like was reborn. It was the beginning of a new a holy life. -
Marraige of daughter
Nothing made me happier than to see a person that I have raised move onto a such a large stage in their lives. It was a moment which I could not forget. Marriage was like a stage when the child is no longer in need of you because there is another person in your child's life, and it was so hard letting go. -
Cancer
Cancer was the most shocking part of my life. I really did learn that anything could happen to anyone. I just couldn't believe that I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it was really like I was fighting a battle against myself. -
Healed from Cancer
I have decided to get a mastectomy, which stopped the spreading of cancer around my body. This was a large transition in my life, just being able to have defeated cancer. Even though it was hard to go back to my normal life, my friends and family helped me continue on and live the happiest life I could possibly live. -
Death
I died a natural death during this day. A few years after I got cancer I started looking back at life, and seeing whether or not I lived a meaningful life. I was quite satisfied because I adopted and changed a girl's life whome I loved, and opened a school to give oppurtinities artists around the world. I also pursued my own dreams of opening a gallery, and become an international artist. This is where I pass the integrity vs. depair stage, and I am pleased with the life I lived.
