Blog# 6

                                                " The Truman Show -- Self Determination"


                           Self  Determination is a theory of motivation, it supports our natural tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways. In the movie 'The Truman Show", i believe the autor is trying to show people that when we have Self Determination we can reach our goals. In the movie truman ( Jim Carey) is a insurance salesman that discover that his entire life is actually a T.V. show, as a result, he got upset because he figure out that everybody new and just him didn't, so he decided to change his life and start over in another place, where he could be himself without nobody watching and judging him.
                          In the same way, many people fell trapped in situation in life that make them change their behaviors and trying to find the way out of it. Personally i already experience something similiar. Let me explain....Since I ws a child i use to be a independente girl and i always use to do things by my self, for example, fixing bicycles, build dolls house with paper boxes, help my mother raise my little brother and more.
                          Moreover when I was sixteen years old, I started on my first job at a National Bank as assistant administrative and after five years a bought my own apartment and started living by my self. Furthermore, five more years passed and I decided that was time to change my life and I decide to move to New York City and start a new chapter of my life, this decision make my intere family upset, and my father wasn't talking with me anymore.
                         On the other hand, I was determinated to change my life and I spoke with my boss at the bank and he accepted my decission and I left the the job. At the next day, I organized a meeting in my house to explain to my family my reasons that I was tired to do the same thing for ten years and I felt that I could do and be more than that and coming to New York City could be a big challenge, because here I could learn English, find a job and learn the american culture and that could be a nice experience in my life, also if it didn't results alrigth i would come back, but knowing that I tried.
                       Further, in january 2002 I arrived in New York City and it was a freezing morning for me because in Brazil the winter is about 50 F, so that was my first challenge, but i was determinated to stay and nothing could hold me back. Hours later I arrived in my friends house and that was a small place with no privacy, I had to sleep in a sofa and my clothes in my bag, I find this to be my second challenge because my parents house is so big with a large back yard, also I use to have a room just for myself, however, my friend helps me to find a job at a shoes store and there a learned Spanish and little English. Learning Spanish wasn't easy because there are different accents from many coutries and I had to pay attention when people talked and sometimes i felt discriminated, and i believe that was my third challenge, because learning a different language isn't easy at all.
                     In conclusion, the motivation that the Self Determination can bring to our lives is the key for the success, as a result, here I got married and I became a mother of two boys. I truly believe that have done the best choise deciding moving to New York City.