Who am I? This is such a seemingly simple question, yet it’s very difficult for me to answer. After all, I’m only a fourteen year old girl. I still have much to learn, many people to meet, places to go, and events to happen until I truly know my identity. My interests and abilities are changing continuously, but there are a few facts about me that I’m positive will never change.
First, I am very introverted. I would rather spend time hanging out with a few close friends than going to a party. When my Friday nights consists of reading, watching my favorite TV series, and listening to music alone in my room, I am perfectly content. I enjoy being able to think and spend time by myself. I do love to spend time with people, but parties or events where I have to socialize with people that I don’t know very well can be overwhelming to me. I usually feel uncomfortable sharing my opinions with others because I fear that they might not agree with me or I will make a fool out of myself, so I usually keep my thoughts to myself. I am trying my hardest to speak up more and be myself around people ...
I can be kind of closed off and separated from people at first, but once I start to know people and approach them more then I become very open and outgoing. I feel this is a very important aspect of my life, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. One problem that comes from this aspect of me is that it makes it hard for me to meet new people because I always come off as closed off. I see Chuck Nolan as being a very outgoing person and he is not afraid to express himself, that is one difference between me and Chuck, but I feel that in time I could be more open and more approachable as a person like
Although I am at times shy and not talkative, I am not a complete introvert. One of the questions they asked on the test was that am I outgoing or sociable. I strongly disagree because I work 60 hours a week and I go to campus four times a week. For five days in a week, I work the night shift, 12 hours straight. Therefore, I do not have the time to be outgoing. Once again, it is not because I don’t want to, it’s because I can’t be outgoing, like how I used to. I do enjoy being with people, participating in social gatherings, and I have full of energy. There are a lot of factors when it comes to this
What is position do Black American hold in society today? If Black Americans were to just disappear without a trace, would it effect America economically, politically, and socially? The answer is yes, but we would not have the power to survive on our own. The only power that we truly have is buying power in America. Black Americans are infamous for putting their money into things that are materialistic rather than things that will turn their money over. Things that will build up the community such as black owned establishments. Despite the economic set backs we place ourselves in, politically we have no strong voices and our social leaders do not seem to understand how to elevate the problems that continue to plaque our society. Who can we turn to? I am convinced that if we trace back to learn theories of past African America leaders on these issues then we can eventually come to new heights. This paper will identify the primary economic, political, and social needs of African Americans at the turn of the century and determine if the philosophies of Booker T. Washington, WEB DuBois, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X can eliminate some of these issues.
Of all the questions we ask ourselves in our lives, there is one that stands out. It is something we ask ourselves when we are young and still developing, something that we think we know when we are teens, and something we discover as we grow older and more certain in ourselves. The question is: “Who am I?”
While we live in a world that never stops talking, being introverted can pose awkward situations
I recently was introduced to a Kurt Vonnegut quote by a friend. It was mentioned only in passing and was likely meant only to carry the conversation on, but I have come back to it many times in my thoughts. The quotation was a warning: “Be careful who you pretend to be because you are who you pretend to be”. The truth behind this sentiment is far more pertinent to our lives than we might like to think. We all have visions of who we are based on what we know, how we compare ourselves to others, and how we attempt to act, but the actuality of who we are exists independently of that personal ideal. The truth of the matter is that, regardless of our apparent individuality, the way we act around others, how we dress and talk, and our general influence on others is the strongest indicator of who we are. The idea that we can exist as one person in private and construe ourselves as something different among society is simply fallacious. If I go about drinking and making a fool of myself and return home to read Proust and Percy, then what’s to say that I am anything more than the fool I was making myself out to be.
TR: There is nothing more appealing to this introvert than a combination of solitude and a little time with my closest friends. Perhaps this is why the research around ratios of positive to negative interactions has always resonated with me. The quality of social interactions matters far more than the frequency of those interactions. Based on what I have studied, we need about 80% of our interactions with other people to be more positive than negative. This is simply because negative interactions carry much heavier load and outweigh positive
Identity, an ambiguous idea, plays an important part in today’s world. To me identity can be defined as who a person is or what differentiates one person from another. Identity would be a person’s name, age, height, ethnicity, personality, and more. A quote by Anne Sexton states “It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was”(Anne Sexton). This quote helps me define identity because I believe it is saying that identity is what people are remembered by. When some people think of identity, words such as, uniqueness, distinctiveness, or individuality may come to mind. However, I disagree with this because when I think of identity I think of mimicry, self-consciousness, or opinions.
Many people ask the questions “are we social Beings”? Some find it more relaxing to keep to their selves while others feel comfortable in a more social setting among their peers. This is important because it dictates how we act around people. If someone likes to be alone and keep to his or herself, then they will more then likely have questionable people skills, where as someone who loves to have people around them, will most likely be very good with working with people or just interacting with them.
SUMMARY – This section covers the topic of relationship. The characteristic of one’s social relationship may be related to chronic diseases, particularly, stroke, heart diseases and all-cause mortality. The book mentioned that the mechanisms is still not clear, however, when it came to the marriage problems and contradiction, the relationship argument, and even isolation have poor outcomes upon health and increase the risk of disease. It mentioned that those individuals who have good supportive friends/relationships, lowered the risk of chronic diseases and inflammation. Bad relationships may influence cytokine activity and cause an inflammatory response, yet when it came to positive and or good relationships may do the opposite. Programs like the “ABC”, which stand for “Act-Belong-Commit” should be used to promote a healthy relationship, and manage chronic
Walking into a room full of people I have known all of my life, I find
That is partially due to finding it easier not talking to new people on the off chance that I will say the wrong thing. Also at times think of several possibilities of how I should talk to them, and have none of them come to pass. Often it is the other person who inevitability starts the conversation. Other times my quiet comes off as either uninterested or rigged to others, while in actuality in most cases I feel the opposite of how I appear. Finding a way to express that to others follows the same issues as the one previously stated, either over analyzing or not wanting to say the wrong thing. Therefore the few people that do become my friends I know I can rely on because they are willing to work with my social issues. Although when I become comfortable with a group of people these problems tend to disappear. While my behavior makes it difficult to make large numbers of friends I feel as though the quality of the few I have largely makes up for that
Contemplating on my life and its ups and downs, now I know that there are countless things a child is not supposed to witness. Because of it, I’ve been influenced subconsciously by these incidents without realizing what was2 to occur next. Then I commenced thinking of the aftermath of these events, as if I was attempting to foresee the conclusion before befalling. Ever since I was an adolescent everything was given to me. Even though I was not utterly coherent about the life I was living, I still was a rather clever boy. This aided me, as I grew older, to make up my mentality about what is correct or what is not. Life is not deterministic, but we determine our existence by the worth we perceive in our choices, and how we take action after we acknowledge that to get to where we went, our requirements are incentive, tremendous effort, and will power.
As a young child I was a non social person, and did not like to participate in anything. I liked to be an individual person, and do things on my own. I was shy and not outgoing like all my other friends were. When I enter a situation for the first time, I have a hard time speaking up until I feel comfortable. As being as shy as I was, my school work was affected a lot because I would not raise my hand to ask questions if I did not understand something, or go to the teacher for help. It was hard to transition from that stage to being more outgoing and talk more with my peers. It was difficult to communicate with others becuase of this as well, i was not able to be the perosn that i really am.
In the end, no matter what may be said about me, I know that I am some what of an abstract project. I continue to grow everyday and discover new factors that define me. I know what I stand for. I love myself, and the people around me. They don't create me, or make me who I am, but they do help be define myself