Thursday Blog- Chasing Dreams

Beautiful Unbroken- One nurse's life
Mary Jane Nealon

Chasing Dreams 

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As young children we all dream about what we want to be when were older. Some dream about becoming a teacher, an engineer, an artist, a nurse, or even a doctor. But sometimes career's fail , or maybe sometimes we decide this career isn't meant for me, but we learn from it and we grow into something better. The book I started reading on Tuesday is called, Beautiful Unbroken by Mary Jane Nealon. Mary Jane grew up in a big family, who were very religious. Originally she wanted to become a Saint. As that failed, she grew a love for becoming a nurse. The beginning part of the book that I read this week, reminisces about Mary Jane growing up as a child. She was really close to her brother who she always played games with outside in their backyard. She was also really close with her dad, who loved going to church. Mary Jane says, "Saints were so familiar to me as a child they were like first cousins. I liked to kneel on the brown cushions in the pews and to take communion. I wanted to be a saint" (Nealon, 13). Growing up religious was never a problem for Mary Jane. She loved it. As she grew up she realized, she didn't want to become someone who carried bags of vegetables home. She didn't want to wash clothes in basins and hang them on clotheslines. Mary Jane wanted to do something that made her feel like she was doing a good deed. Becoming a Saint was her priority but then becoming a nurse became a bigger priority. 

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Mary Jane's aunt was a nurse. When Mary started to become more disobedient she started to see the impossibility of sainthood. So she paid more attention to her aunt. Her aunt, Frances, took care of neighbors' wounds and sicknesses and gave out treatment. As she paid attention Mary Jane stated, "I began to think like a nurse, that I began to desire nursing. Among the other occasional fantasies I nurtured, like being an astronaut or a saint, being a nurse took over. I started, innocently enough, to begin my entire life" (Nealon, 13). As a kid, she always wanted to grow up and do something good. After following her aunt around, she realized she loved how Frances was treating and taking care of innocent patients and she wanted to follow in her footsteps. Her life was ready to begin.

A theme that I found was chasing dreams. While reading the first half of this book, the quote "You have to dream hard, wish big, and chase after your goals because no one else is going to do it for you" came to mind. Mary Jane and her father were close, like I said,  but he wanted her to grow up independently. That meaning, he didn't want to tell her what to do, what to be, or tell her where to go. She had to chase her own dreams and work hard towards what she wanted to do. Mary Jane dreamed of becoming a saint, but sometimes things fail and she learned to accept it and chase after better things that she knew she was capable of achieving.  

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