Some say wisdom comes with old age, I guess I am wise beyond my years. You see even though I am only seventeen, I have been provided with numerous life experiences that have both challenged me mentally and molded me emotionally. In her book, You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt states that the best part of learning is “the capacity to learn from each thing you see, from each fact you acquire, from each experience you have, from each person you meet” (14). By saying this, Roosevelt is stating that we learn throughout everything we view and live through, not just what we read about in school. There have been a number of life lessons that have helped guide me, and they will continue to steer me throughout the rest of my life. They will grow …show more content…
Hatred does not solve any problems; it only causes pain and regret. I learned and used this life lesson when going through relationships that did not end well. Even though I have had relationships that ended roughly, I do not hate those people; I learned to forgive them. I did not forgive them because they deserved it, but to ease the pain and regret I was feeling. I realized that the other person probably did not realize, or care, that I disliked them. I have found that hatred only blocks the heart from loving those who deserve it. My inspiration for this life lesson was my faith. As Christians, we believe we should ‘love thy neighbor,’ yet the world does not understand that hatred does not follow that phrase. Society suggests that it is easier to hate than forgive, but in the long run, all relationships will be better if there is no room for hatred in your heart. There are some people who have upset and hurt me, but I will never hate them; I will not let them affect me or prevent me from obtaining positive loving …show more content…
When this type of person crosses your path, the best solution is to set your personal boundaries, stick to them, and let their manipulation roll off of your back, this will demonstrate to them that they have no control over you. This response will irritate them more than it will affect you gaining the upper hand in a difficult situation without losing your sanity. I have learned however,there are some cases where you cannot take this approach to difficult people. One example of this is group projects; there is always at least one person in the group who does as little work as possible. While you cannot force that person to do the work, you can control how you handle the situation. When I come across this problem, I try a little creativity to illicit participation. If that does not improve the situation, I try to contact someone higher up to attempt to correct the situation. If that does not work, then I complete the work that I needs to be done to do to prevent being penalized for someone else's neglect, but I explain that I had difficulties. In whichever way I attempt to solve the problem, I always maintain my composure keeping in mind that my happiness and well being is more valuable than the
In the book The New Science of Learning by Doyle and Zack, there is a quote that is super simple but has a lot of meaning behind it, it says “We all learn throughout our lives” (page 1). As simple and basic as it is, it is so true, especially in Zits’ case. He has lived and never quite learned that the past is unchangeable. He has always thought that if he did something in the present day, he could change the past.
“If you’re always battling against getting older, you are never going to be happy, because it will happen anyhow” (Albom, 120). This quote is from Morrie Schwartz who died from ALS. Morrie gradually learned to accept his coming death and aging so he could learn how to be happy. He also decided to share many aphorisms and lessons he learned himself to his friend and previous student, Mitch Albom. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch writes his every Tuesday meetings down and explains the lessons he learned from his former coach. Morrie teaches people to live life through showing emotions, learning how to forgive, and knowing love goes on.
A very strong feeling of dislike, intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury. Is how Websters discribes the word Hate. Thurman gives proof of that definition in this chapter about hate. He uses stories and personal examples that provide us a picture in words of what hate means and how Jesus was totally against the hatred. He writes that hatred is death to the spirit and disintegration of ethical and moral values. Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression
In the same way as love, hatred requires a certain intimacy between two people. A relationship cannot consist of either love or hate without there first being a close relationship between two individuals. Hawthorne explains that for these emotions to exist, “each, in its utmost development, requires a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge” (Hawthorne 246). In order for either of these emotions to be conceived within an individual, the person must first make an effort to acquire a deep understanding of the other person. It is necessary to have a familiarity with someone else’s character in order to either love or hate them, and it is impossible to become close to som...
People learn new things every day. My grandmother would say “I just received a new wrinkle in my brain!” Maybe, this is not true, but it is true that we learn new things even as we grow older. There are many techniques to learning a new skill. “Howard Gardner 's theory of Multiple Intelligences utilizes aspects of cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, and sociology to explain the human intellect” (Zhou 77). Gardner introduced nine different intelligences. Gardner believed that humans possess each of the nine intelligences, even though some are stronger or weaker than others. He also believed that each person had their own individual intelligence profile. We took a multiple intelligence test to see our own strengths and weaknesses
... others more easily (McDougal). Hate itself takes up a lot of energy. All that wasted energy could be channeled into other areas that are more rewarding such as helping others.
Even though it didn’t work out and neither did many other relationships after that. I refused to give up on being alone, or bitter for the rest of my life. I wanted my children to have a better childhood and life than I had, and this is where the stage of generativity vs. stagnation in my middle adulthood changed my life and made me the amazing person I am today. I began to look at the bigger picture, and what laid ahead in my future. I wanted things I never imagined were possible because of my family morals, and early stages and experiences through my development. I met my husband that I’m married to now for 24 years, and began to feel loved, wanted, cherished. My children saw me as supermom, loved me even though I had flaws. I wasn’t the perfect parent, but my kids loved and excepted me, and as they grew so did I, not only was I teaching them family values, and morals I never had, they were teaching me how to love myself and grow with them. I became very productive, went back to school to earn my high school diploma, and am now earning a college
After understanding, and coping the problem a person can deal with their problem at hand by perhaps writing it down or writing about who hurt them, according to Melanie Tonia Evans, “this is self-recognition that will assist you in healing and reclaiming your right to perfect love, success and happiness.” A person can feel as if they were abandoned, unwanted, unloved, or forgotten. The most important thing though, is to stay positive about themselves at all costs. When a person loves themselves and is happy with their life it can make everything much easier and healing can begin. “Once you have validated and learned what you can from the experience, you can let it go and move forward. This won’t happen all at once. Those imprints are still there, and they need to be replaced with healthy, positive ones,” (Dania Vanessa.) The dysfunctional experiences that a person has from their childhood can pose as a learning experience that shaped someone into who they are now, from the hardships they
Love is considered a wonderful connection between two people that brings happiness to many. Although without hate no one would realize how marvelous love truly is. Does this mean hate is more powerful than love throughout the world? Hate overpowers love because there may be so much love in this world, but with the tiniest bit of hate everything could be changed in a split second. Hate is an indestructible power that will demolish anything in its way, like it did in The Coffin Quilt, by Ann Rinaldi. Roseanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield’s love was simply not powerful enough to defeat the hate that came along with the love.
without even knowing it. For the most part I find it true that the older you get the wiser you become because you are faced with more and more situations on a daily basis. I feel as though experience is the best teacher. Wisdom is something that can be acquired if you want it. My thought of wisdom is knowing what and how plus knowing when. You can always learn how to do something and you always can learn what something is but it then becomes wise when you learn how to but both these together and then learn when to do things and that comes with experience.
One generation can learn many things from another. For instance, they can learn to persevere, have faith. And be generous.
One of the most famous saying of all time is that “we live until we die”. We start learning from the moment we are born, firstly the basic human functions, than our parents and society teaches us how to behave correctly, not to make bad things, to help one another. We go to school, we start learning all kinds of subjects, maybe for somebody some of them are irrelevant, but we are supposed to know a little bit from everything. With time, we start to love some particular subject better than the rest, we can`t wait until that class comes so we could learn more about that subject. When finishing high school, we are at one of the first and one of the biggest crossroads in our entire life – what next? Should we go to college and improve about knowledge (and if I go, to what college, and what could be my major), what should I do next with my life, what do I want to do for the rest of my life? But maybe the most important question of them all is does my
While it is accepted that wisdom usually only comes with age, older people should also listen to younger ones, otherwise it would be impossible for the world to function. Without new ideas, a fresh outlook, and differing opinions, there would be no civilisation.
Ambient noise filled out the creeks of the classroom and the focus panned onto the physical science teacher with his forearms digging into the podium. His eyes pierced around the classroom back and forth like a hawk sitting on thehighest mountain in Colorado. Finally, after being mysteriously quiet, Mr. Brazen said, "Ugh, In hate Psychology:, the students hushed and adjust in their seats, "I don't get it, like, when people say the stage curtain is blue, so it must mean the stage director is sad!", Mr.Brazen flicks his hand in the air and brushes through his tussled gray hair, "maybe the man just likes the color blue, right, guys?", everyone nodded their heads, and laughed and stammered over another to comment in agreement. Their such sycophants,
Proverbs 16:16-17 affirms, “How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver. The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives”. Wisdom is priceless, a value that is immeasurable. Insight gives one the clarity in any situation and guides one through their decision making. Living a life of wisdom prevents the upright from evil and helps preserve their life. To gain wisdom and insight gives courage and excitement. Proverbs 4:7 expounds, “Wisdom is supreme—so get wisdom. And whatever else you get, get understanding” (Holman Christian Standard Bible). One looks forward to the future with an expected hope, and faith that God’s blessings will meet them wherever God leads with abundance. When one uses the lessons from Proverbs as the model one receives the wisdom and the spiritual growth from practice.