In the featured article “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’”, the author, Gordon Marino, justifies his opinion on the topic of whether a person should do what they love or do what most needs to be done. Gordon Marion begins with a story of his job as an occupational counselor offering guidance to students, how when a student confused about their future approached him for advice he would simply ask them what they were most passionate about. Marino himself writes, “Sometimes I’d even go into a sermonette about how it is important to distinguish between what we think we are supposed to love and what we really love.” In discussions of deciding on a career, one controversial issue has been whether or not a person should do what they love most
"Love can affect you so deeply that it reshapes you from the inside out and by doing so alters you destiny for future loving moments" says Fredrickson but she seems to have forgotten that there always two perspectives to any ideology. It is indubitable that the experiences of love play a crucial role in molding an individual, but it is ignorant to say that only love will cause such change. The reality is that not all relationships and encounters are true "micro-moment of love" and those negative experiences also partake in what creates the identity and thought process of an individual. With the knowledge that an individual 's cell play a crucial role in deciding who to have "micro-moments of love"; such negative experience will be associated with the factual, biological notion of love. Thus causing individuals to feel that the negative experience they had to face and deal with were a result of their body and its biology. The idea that their body and brain, essentially unalterable, were capable of causing them pain and heartache, will hinder them from achieving the love and longing for others that Fredrickson describes. The idea that love is functioning by the orders registered by the individual 's body, makes love uncontrollable. Humans in nature are predisposed
We become obsessed with the one thing we desire and it obscures our point of view on the whole. Loretta was unhappy with the thought of going back to work as journalist and as he watched her transformation into a budding actress, he knew he was losing her (Dziuban 167). He was more concerned with maintaining the idea that he fell for than appreciating her as a whole. In conclusion, he didn’t actually love her, only the part of her that found his routine existence fascinating. Katherine Heller, an assistant professor in statistical science at Duke University, wrote on her experience with this phenomenon. The idea of true love, while a personal thing, is something we hype up in our minds until it makes us question whether we are in the right position (Heller 2). We create these situations in our minds that reality could never measure up to. While the idea can be the focus point, it can also become the very thing that prevents us from moving
love in the context of being a device that is used to protect and to care for people
I have grown up in the Richmond area since I was five years old; and I have trusted Dominion to power my home, work, and community for essentially my entire life. When I was accepted into the Masters of Science in Accounting program at Virginia Commonwealth University, I began to think of my future and where I wanted to be in the next few years. This fall (2014), I started my Organizational Behavior class and learned about job satisfaction. During a lecture, my professor mentioned how important it is to find a career that you feel passionate about. I love my accounting classes and find them to
If we look very closely we will see that the love is a not just
Love is a word commonly used but, unfortunately is rarely truly represented in our actions for another person especially when we say we “love” them. In our modern culture people, will tell people to prove their love however, not in ways that are truly expressing love but instead expressing lust. Many of these requests actions used to show “love” are often selfish, lustful acts. These professions of “love” often included sending sexually explicit pictures or doing sexual acts or favor for one another. However, these are not pure intentions of longing to be with another person in the unity of God, but rather selfish demands that warp the dignity of a human being and warps the original vision of love. So, they keeping following the degrading, selfish demands of their so called “lover”. These relationships often fall apart at the mentioning of a commitment to one another because their motives are not toward truly devoting their lives to one another. When ones freely love another person, give their lives to one another, even when things do not goes as planned, and never degrade or take away each other dignity and are in unity God they find the true meaning of love.
Mickel, E., & Hall, C. (2008). Choosing to Love: The Essentials of Loving (Presents and Problems). International journal of reality therapy, 27(2), 30-34.
This same notion can go for love. As, we all desire beautiful things and happiness which is a small part of love. Those who “making money, philosophy – we don’t say these people are in love, and we don’t call them lovers” (Symposium, 51). We look for beautiful things, which may be in another person and if they weren’t beautiful we wouldn’t search for them, because they are not what we desire forever which is beauty. In the end we love what is beautiful and that we can possess
Application of career theories to my own life allows for analyzing past and future career decisions. Holland’s Theory of Careers states that one’s vocation is an expression of self, personality, and way of life. There is an indisputable and fundamental difference in the quality of life one experiences if they choose a career one truly enjoys, versus choosing a career one detests. A true testament to the validity of Holland’s theory, my job/career choices reflect my interests, as well as the evolution of my personality (internal self). My first job as a fine jewelry specialist and second job as a make-up artist echo my love of the fashion world. As I matured and became less fascinated by presumed “glamour” careers, I became captivated by physical fitness, nutrition, and medicine; I received my national fitness trainer certificate so that I may become a personal trainer. Nevertheless, my career decisions do not fit uniformly into merely one career theory.
Love is an emotion shared among humanity. Humans become emotional when they are denied love. Love helps individuals function and without it, humans would not be able to deal with their emotions. An individual’s personality is destroyed in a relationship where there is a lack of love. A lack of love in a relationship destroys an individual’s personality by generating anger, which coherently leads to rebellion, resulting in the individual to become desperate.
Brooks goes on and talks about, how graduates are told to: “Follow your passion, chart your own course, march to the beat of your own drummer, follow your dreams and find yourself.” Then he goes on and mentions how this type of talk is affecting the young adult and causing them to make scared decisions. He gives an example on how a young woman is confronted by opportunities that she had never imagined; none of this was in her plans. Brooks then has a turning point towards the
Love is arguably the most powerful emotion possessed by mankind; it is the impalpable bond that allows individuals to connect and understand one another. Pure love is directly related to divinity. Without love, happiness and prosperity become unreachable goals. An individual that possesses all the desired superficial objects in the world stands alone without the presence of love. For centuries love has been marveled by all that dare encounter it. Countless books and poems have been transcribed to explain the phenomenon of love, but love surpasses all intellectual explanations and discussions. Love is not a definition, but rather a thought, an idea. This idea, the idea of love, burns inside us all. Instinctually, every soul on Earth is
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs proves that humans require love before gaining any self-esteem for themselves. The absence of a true bond with significant others in Living in Sin shows how selfish people disregard love and suffer from loneliness and regret as a result. Children relying on their parents for a special bond despite the fact they are abused gives insight to the idea of selfless kids putting themselves in danger in order to receive love. Love growing so strong that it destroys innocent lives gives evidence to the idea of the emotion being able to make or break each individual. Love exists as a bond between two people.
When doing what a person love is not always the right choice. The author Gordon Marino wrote 'A Life Do What You Love', published in 2014 in The New York Times. He argued that a person should not do something one can be passionate about. Marino begins building his credibility with personal facts, citing credible experts to appeal to the readers logically and emotionally. However, in the beginning he uses anecdotes to appeal to logic and authority. Not only Marino used facts and opinions by other writers. He also discussed his own personal emotional to support his argument. But, towards the end he attempts to appeal to the readers logically using famous leaders as an example. This support his argument because it helps the readers better understand
...y you have enthusiasm for and do well in,” is advice often given by employers. Lynn Cheney, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, agrees: “Students who follow their hearts in choosing majors will most likely end up laboring at what they love. They’re the ones who will put in the long hours and intense effort that achievement requires. And they’re the ones who will find the sense of purpose that underlies most human happiness.”