Certain events in my life have molded me to be the person I am today, and define what is unique about me. As a young child I had no respect for others, and could never fully grasp the concept of how people besides myself have feelings, and emotions that matter. I, of course changed this major flaw of mine over time, and matured in to the man I am today, but it was a long road getting here. I wasn’t a sadist, or a psychopath, I just never understood the realm of emotions everyone feels. Nothing dramatic has ever happened to me, I was never bullied, I never lost any loved one, so I never knew what real agony, and what hurt felt like. Until my parents got divorced. I did not get why they were doing it, or why they could so easily break apart …show more content…
I pitied him, but I was never discreet with my thoughts back then. He once asked me why all the other kids made such fun of him, and I asked if I really thought he was fat or not. Me, being the egotistical kid I was, said yes you are fat. He ran away from me crying, and he ditched me as a friend. After seeing how hurt he was, I realized just how awful I was. It took me an entire month to work up the courage to apologize to him, but our friendship was never the same. This event in particular changed my life’s perspective. It showed me how simple it is to be a dick, and how I was not going to live my life being that person. Keep in mind I was only in second grade so it was only just the beginning but, I do sometimes still look back at this moment, and become proud of the person I eventually have …show more content…
My Sophomore year I had been dating a very special girl for almost a year when I did the unspeakable to her. I cheated on her with a friend of ours for the period of a month. In that month I was not thinking about what I was doing or how badly she would be hurt if she ever found out. I forgot about all of the emotions attached to this situation, and just let my sixteen hormones take over. She eventually found out, and it destroyed her. How could someone she loved so much do something so awful. This was the first time I had broke down since my parents spilt up. The day she found out I drove her home from school, and she seemed so emotionless, so empty on the inside. I didn’t get how I did this to her. The moment I heard “I’m breaking up with you” was the moment I profusely began crying, and it went on for an hour. Even though she was the one hurting, she held me the entire time trying to comfort me the best she could. She made me realize how deep a persons kindness should go, she changed me into knowing how much it matters to take into account other people’s feelings. She taught me the generosity necessary to be a good human, a great human
Throughout the life cycle, a person undergoes many changes. One matures both physically and emotionally as time passes. Emotional growth is quite often more difficult than physical growth. A person must realize his faults and admit to them before he can develop emotionally, while one does not need any self-analyzation to develop physically. In her book Ordinary People, Judith Guest depicts the struggles man must experience in order to reach his ideal emotional perfection. Conrad, the book's protagonist, and his father Calvin, were both searching for higher levels of emotional health. Conrad had to let out and face all the feelings he had repressed, while Calvin had to correct his confused perspectives on life.
As a small 5th grader not much sense came out of my parents divorce. Lots of confusion mixed in with an underlying sadness that I was too shy to show because I couldn’t stand the thought of making my mother cry. But it hurt. I took these emotions and bottled them up hopes that things would go back to normal
...rson’s emotions allows them to be optimistic or pessimistic about various experiences they may have to deal with. “People are not aware of the fact that their defenses are more likely to be triggered by intense rather than mild suffering, thus they mispredict their own emotional reactions” (Gilbert 140) to different experiences which causes them to fail to create better responses to a similar situation in the future. An individual has not only the ability to perceive the world but also the ability to alter their perception of it. Simply put an individual can change situations and outcomes by the way in which they look at them.
For my "Someone Different Than I Am" paper, I chose to interview a co-worker of mine, Bret Webster. Bret is a gay man living in Erie County, and I wanted to know how our community treats those of different sexualities than their own. In simple terms, being gay means that you are sexually attracted to members of your own sex and that you identify with other gay people or the gay community. Sexuality is a term used to describe a whole range of feelings, desires and actions relating to sex. From working with Bret I know that he is a hard-working, super funny, amazing friend of mine, but I was curious to find out if he had ever been faced with any sort of hardship, due to his sexual preference, at school, work, or in relationships with friends and/or family members. I never looked at Bret as “my gay friend,” because to me, that never really mattered, so I guess because of that him and I have never really discussed what it is like for him to be gay. Before I conducted my interview I thought about what Bret could have gone through because of his sexuality. I feel like it would be hard because to some, gays and lesbians are seen as a minority, making them a target for crude humor and maybe even violence.
The emotions associated by an environment enable personal growth over a lifetime. Negative emotions like hopelessness, anger and sadness all influence and alter people deeply, leaving them
Within the instance I had flash backs of experiences and memories that once created emotions of joy, harmony, and content that allowed me to feel alive (i.e. birth of my child, graduating college while holding my baby on stage, buying my first home) while others created fear, hate, and sorrow to the point of longing for death to end the emotional connect streaming through me and save me from them (i.e. being raped by your first love/partner and father of your child, being betrayed and used by the only other partner you choose to try and trust after the first). The author continued to further express the impact of emotions by sharing “some that are frightening to acknowledge are destined to remain forever hidden, perhaps from even ourselves”. I once again felt understood by the author. Feelings as thou the author was talking to many individuals as an audience who would be able to relate. I thought within social services often individuals requiring services have been through those emotions and situations which they cannot face. Those emotions which have partially lead them in the path they are on or had taken. Emotions are talked about having strong physiological responses that can hinder our health and
En Somme, le personnalisme est l’exigence d’un engagement total et conditionnel en même temps. C’est un engagement total, parce qu’il n’y a pas de lucidité valable que celle réalisé et ne souffre pas d’être résoudre par une simple critique. De plus, C’est un engagement conditionnel, parce que si nous ne tenons pas fermement dans les mains le gouvernail, le désaccord interne de l'homme bascule l’équilibre des civilisations. Parfois vers la complaisance solitaire, parfois à la superbe collective et parfois à l'évasion idéaliste.
I made it my obligation to undo my wrong and be more of a leader and was able to have others follow by example. By being more friendly and thoughtful the individual was able to feel some relief and make new friends while attending school. By me being in this situation at a young age help me become fully aware of what I wanted to do in life which is helping others because of me helping and supporting this individual it made me feel positive about my change in uplifting another human being. The impact it has had on my view of bullying and torment to others now that I am older and more, wiser is when I’m in a situation where I’m thinking cruelty or someone is being cruel in my presence. I always think back to fifth grade and put myself in that persons position I also believe that this life experience will go a long way in helping others to the best of my ability with their problems or issues they are dealing with by looking beyond myself and helping my future patient I’m able to look beyond myself I feel I can be more useful and valuable to my community and peers I can teach them my life experience and what I learned so they won’t have to make the same mistakes that I have , I want my experience that I faced to change
There are many reasons for wanting to control another person’s expression of individuality. Controlling other person means imposing our view of the world, the way we do thing, and how we feel about them. Some of those reasons can be good and others can be bad. There are individual who takes advantage of a close and loving relationship to meet their our needs, without caring at all the feelings of the other person. Controlling others can also be abused and can cause serious damage or can terminate a relationship before getting what he/she wants. On the other hand, controlling can be seen as how to convince others to agree with your point of view. Therefore, with the right methods, we can change the attitudes of people, without losing their respect
Our personalities are what distinguish us from each other beyond our appearance; without them, we would all behave and react in the same way. Personality is the reason we are outgoing or introverted, persistent or blaze, and anxious or calm. We each have different levels of these competing characteristics that make us unique. But why are personalities so varied? Personality is determined by an array of factors from genetic and biological to the personal experiences and decisions we have faced from the day we are born. The complexity of our personalities cannot be simply explained, and for this reason there exists many different theories of how it’s developed and personality is still deeply under study. I went into this subject with an open-mind
...saw that bad experiences in life should not turn you into a cold person and allow your heart to become guarded.
Characteristics a feature or quality belonging to a person, place or thing and serving to identify it. There are many personal characteristics that can define a person as an individual; some characteristics determined if a person is nice, disrespectful, intelligent, or not intelligent but it determines how a person interprets you. I believe that every individual has integrity as one of their characteristics, but my top three characteristics are Integrity, Compassion, and hard-working and for the person who carried me throughout my whole life “my brother” his characteristics would be his responsibility.
Hi, my name is Rob Geis and I am currently in grade 12. I have been at County High School for a year now; I joined at the start of 11th grade, and have thoroughly enjoyed myself here. The school is great, the people are fantastic and the atmosphere is one that makes you actually want to go to school. Before I joined ASB I was studying at the Singapore American School for two years and prior to that I was at the International School of Kuala Lumpur for two years. I was born and raised here in Bombay city and grew up here.
There are two big events that have truly shaped and contributed to the person I am today: the passing of my mother and my time as a nanny. You are never fully prepared to lose a parent and especially not at the age of 12. When my parents sat me down in 6th grade and told me that my mom had cancer, I did not occur to me that she would not live to be 50 years old. I was told she would go through radiation, surgery to remove the tumor, and chemotherapy so it would never come back. Being a young child, I thought it was an extremely straight forward process and there would be zero "bumps in the road". I could not have been more wrong in my thought process. After going through the "easy plan" I had in my head and 6 more months, my parents came back
This is not the only occasion in my life that has shaped my identity but it has changed me the most. My parents got divorced when I was only eleven years old. I did not foresee the divorce coming, as I was never in their presence when they argued. Then, one night, they asked my little brother and me to take a seat at the dining room table. They then told me that they were getting a divorce and my mouth instanously went dry. I cried so much that my nose stuffed up to the point where I could not smell. My eyes began streaming with tears, and through my tears I could see my brother sitting across from me looking very confused. The only thing that I could hear were my parents trying to comfort me with their soft words, and I could feel their warm arms holding me. I eventually calmed down enough to go to bed, but the memory of my parents telling me they were getting a divorce will stay with me forever. This changes how I act every day and therefore my identity. I am not the only person with a story like this. Everybody has a story like mine from their past that has shaped their