"A single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat." - The Emperor of China Mulan

Many of us growing up had thoughts, dreams, and aspirations of what we would be when we "grew up" or got older. Although we had these dreams of what we wanted to be as young children we may have strayed away from them as we've gotten older. By the time we applied for admittance to colleges and universities we had to figure out right in that moment what we wanted our career to be for the rest of our lives. Instead of sticking with the fireman, doctor, teacher dreams we set out to do something different instead of trusting who we were as children. I have grown to realize that who we were as children, what we played pretend as or even happened to be good at as a child in many cases is still what we are good at.

For an example I as a child wanted to be a pediatrician which soon changed and I wanted to be a veterinarian instead. By middle school I had dreams of wanting to be a writer and an author of many books; however, I would have never told my parents that because according to my family I was going to "be something", which in my eyes did not seem like writing would push me to be something. I continued to write often in my journals and on my computer while going through middle and high school but when it was time to settle on a major while applying to colleges I decided that Pharmaceutical Sciences would be my major. Now don't get me wrong, science was never something I was horrible at; however, I was not good at math nor was I great at science. Needless to say two and a half years into college my major changed to English and now I am happy.

I say all of that to say this: no matter what anyone else believes you should do, trust yourself! While watching Mulan, which I often do, I realized that Mulan took off to save her family. Throughout the entire movie Mulan acts like a guy because she believed that she was doing the right thing by taking her father's place in the military. This is one of my favorite Disney movies because although her father wanted her to stay in what he believed was her place and the lady who was supposed to pick Mulan to be a bride had no faith in her at all, Mulan believed in herself.

So every day I face a new task or I find myself discouraged about anything I remind myself of who Mulan was and what she did which in turn saved all of China.