What Psychology means to me

(This needs more work and will get more attention when I can dive deeper into what this really means to me, but this is it for now.)

Psychology is a rapidly growing field of interest for the general public, but where it came from was from the heart of the individual who wanted to know more about his or her self. I would imagine that it started out with such questions like " Why am I here?" or "What makes so and so so successful?". Philosophers emerged with countless questions regarding human nature, and many people have struggled to find answers to questions that are posed so easily. These questions have always plagued mankind, so why, I ask is a field such as this so new?
Is it because few people wanted to test the waters of such a complex task, or were people too worried about getting their family through hard times? Maybe it was because of a lack of people who held the skills necessary to tackle questions about the human psyche? Who knows... I'm just glad that I live in a day and age where there is an extensive amount of information regarding psychology and human nature.
To me, psych is the study of the mind in retrospect to behaviour, mental processes, evolution over time, and the interaction between the objective and subjective worlds. There are a ton of sub fields in psychology that cater to thousands of jobs, topics covered in the media, societal rules and influences, etc. Fields such as organizational/ business, personality, neuroscience, social, cognitive, clinical, sport, experimental, health, community, cross-cultural, feminine, forensics, academic/ research and many more are currently growing and evolving every year, with lots of discoveries waiting to be found.
Because of the vast opportunities in pschology it gives me, as well as many others the room to grow, change and merge the area of studies we choose to explore in this field. This field is a scientific field, but because of its variety of study and methods of obtaining and sharing information, it can be looked at as a social science or pure science, depending on how complicated you want to go witt it. With that being said, we should note the importance of the brain for relaying information from the objective world to the subjective worlds that each of us create. While Bachelor of arts students may look at the complexities of the brain, its the neuroscientists that turn this field into a science by looking in depth at what the brain is, how it works, and what would happen if certain ares of the brain are damaged or non existant, thus ignoring the notition of the brain as "the mind"
To me, psychology is a window of knowledge into the essense of who we are as a collective species and as unique individuals, and to beable to explore an area such as this, I find it a challenge, and a pleasure wraped into one. I would like to use the skills and knowledge that I aquire from my furure years of study to try and improve the psychological world, and see how much I can give back to the world; this is my way :]

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