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Basic Virtue: Fidelity
After college, I had an identity crisis because I was no longer the student athlete I had been since I was 13.
This is Erikson’s fifth stage of Ego Identity vs. Role Confusion.
Ego Identity is when you truly know yourself and where you want to go; I had landed myself in a good spot, but was experiencing role confusion because being a student-athlete no longer existed. -
Basic Virtue: Love
My husband and I made the decision to get married.
This is Erikson’s sixth stage of intimacy vs. isolation.
Marriage is a commitment where both Garret and I are choosing to be recognized as a unit, rather than remaining seen as two separate individuals. -
Virtue: Care
I made the decision to go back to school to seek a career in medicine.
This is Erikson’s seventh stage of generativity vs. stagnation.
To remain unhappy or not reaching toward a bigger goal I truly desire with my previous career would be accepting stagnation. Generativity is the steps I am making toward reaching a goal I define as something worth reaching for so the rest of my life has true meaning.
