Intro Essay on Conflict

What are the ways that you tend to deal with conflict in your own life? with family? with friends? At work or at school?

Conflict is apart of everyday life and can seem to range from severe to relativley minor. In my own personal life I have been exposed to major ammounts of conflict. Some brought upon myself by my-self, and some out of my control, regardless of how conflict is brought upon someones life, it must be dealt with in an appropriate way. This excericise is the first "reflection" exercise that i have done in quiet some time. In terms of how i tend to deal with conflict really varies in each situation, that being said; i have a "short temper", or so they say. As a child and teenager I can remember getting very angry, not being able to control my emotions and saying exactly what I was thinking regardless of the consequences; the consequences usually consisted of some adult getting upset because i hurt thier feelings. I look back on some of these situations and i still feel justified in the things i said. I have had a some what unusual childhood so please dont get me wrong, Iv had a lot of conflict that most people do not experience. An interesting thing about "conflict" is that having conflict, can cause another conflict; that is, having a type of conflict can cause another internal conflict within. for example if a childs parents abandonded the child to use drugs, and that child bounces through a number of foster homes and is raised the the goverment till its 19th birthday, the child will have an ongoling conflict within itself regardling feeling loved and trusting people. A very clear example of how one conflict can be the cause of another conflict. In my young adult years i havenow mastered other ways to handle conflicts that come about. Sometimes conflict can be handled at that moment in time and they are rarley thought of again, such as; someone stealing the parking spot you were waiting for, frusturating for sure, but reasonable people