Wang · 14
Pre-surgery
Self-Alignment · Leadership · Seeing Others
Three qualities she hopes to grow into.
What These Words Mean
Self-Alignment
For Wang, self-alignment represents the ability to live in a way that feels true to herself.
As she moves beyond high school and into a new stage of life, she hopes to become more comfortable making choices that feel right for her, even when she does not yet have everything figured out.
Leadership
Wang sees leadership as an area in which she still has room to grow. She also mentioned that becoming a teacher might be a future she could imagine for herself. That possibility makes leadership feel less like authority and more like learning how to guide, communicate with, and take responsibility for others.
Seeing Others
This quality is already visible in the way Wang thinks about relationships.
Before graduating, she bought three autograph books because one was not enough for all the classmates she wanted to include. She estimated that she prepared space for around 200 people. She also described herself as someone with many friends and strong relationships with the people around her.
For Wang, seeing others can mean noticing the people who have shared a stage of life with her and making space to remember those connections.
Imagining Challenge
When invited to imagine herself as the protagonist of a story, Wang pictured a world full of difficult challenges, almost like progressing through levels in a game.
The ability she imagined for the protagonist was particularly interesting: the ability to see every opportunity.
That imagined ability fits naturally with the future she is still figuring out. She may not know exactly where she is going yet, but she hopes to recognize possibilities when they appear and decide what to do with them.
Her Future Self
For Wang, becoming means feeling more aligned with herself, growing into someone who can guide others with confidence, and continuing to notice and value the people around her.