I’m happy with who I am today, just as everyone should be. But if I could change anything about myself, I’d want to have more motivation to do things. In the mornings before school I can barely get out of bed because I’m so tired and don’t want to go to school. I’m exceedingly intelligent but I don’t have any drive. I procrastinate on most of my work, and sometimes I just don’t want to do the work. Right now I’m rank 14 in my class but I could’ve been higher if I had any drive my freshman year. I don’t think about how my decisions now will impact me later and when I do, I don’t really care. I also don’t have much motivation to do things in sports activities. Last year I played volleyball and I never had that much playing time. Never being able…
The Shared Vision I am currently in the process of crafting includes working for an organization that will challenge me to grow both in knowledge and as a person. Peace Corp is one organization that can give me what I want out of my company and organization and how I am going to get that out of my new organization. At this time I am trying to link my personal vision to the organization’s potential in order to help myself align the organization’s purpose with my own purpose (vision): and to prepare the individual groundwork for creating a shared vision. I am at a crossroads on my career path, where I can either I can decide on my personal vision and try and line up my career with that vision or I can let someone else determine what type of work…
Throughout the years, billions of individuals have inhabited the Earth, each with their own lives and their own particular choices. With every choice made, these individuals have started to compose their legacy, which is the exemplification of who they are and what they have accomplished. I, like the majority of the rest of the world, am starting to leave a legacy as well, and plan to continue and enhance it along the shining stone path known as my life.…
References: Duran, Eduardo. (2006) Healing the Soul Wound Counseling with American Indians and other Native Peoples…
My heart sank when I heard that Shaxton was my partner for the day’s hike. He wasn't a bad kid, but he was small and a little clumsy, and I don't think I'd ever heard him speak. The other campers tended to avoid him.…
All of us will face different obstacles in our lives. When dealing with those adversities, would you always repeat the same course of action? Now, close your eyes. Imagine you are on your way home and a barricade is erected, blocking your way. What would you do? (pause) Will you stop and wait until the barricade is removed? Will you bypass it? Or will you select an alternative route? Open up your eyes and see. There are lots of alternatives in dealing with a situation. So why stick to the same old pattern every time?…
The world is inherently a harsh place. By the age of four, I was well aware of many of the evils that pervade the Earth. In Colombia, I saw children sleeping on the streets, guerillas killing civilians without any hesitation, and animals being treated like mere objects. Having lived in a country where I observed more suffering, violence, and poverty than peace, security, and happiness, led me to believe that the cruelty I witnessed could not be altered. At the time, I wondered how a child like me could significantly impact the world around me. I found myself bringing home more than a few sick animals and giving my school lunch to the less fortunate on more than a couple of occasions. Still, I felt frustrated because despite my efforts I could…
And I began looking for my disappeared self by reviving the old habits: I talked to friends on my homesickness and frustration over classes, my favorite director ‘s Pedro Almadovar’s movies and his focus on women’s solidarity, on feminism and gender issues, on my criticism of capitalism and concept of economic rationality, my journal and a coloring book, I continued watching anime, Japanese animations. I remember my American roommate getting severely ill during the final’s week. It was raining heavily and she had to get the Dean's excuse from the Bailey’s center. She had never been to the doctor before, neither to the center, she seemed scared both due to exam and the virus. We didn’t have interacted much over the whole semester, but I followed her to the center, spent most of the day with her and bought the medicine for her later.…
I have thought about it and in the past I have had things that changed me for better and for worst and things that I regret doing and not regret doing. Like during junior high I changed my look where my hair was down and I had glasses to hair as a Mohawk and I have contacts. That's something that I'm happy has happened to me. One thing that I regret was not growing my Jedi's braid on the right place of my head. In the past I used to be a very good student and not a very good soccer player. Then that started changing where I became good at soccer and started not doing good in school. But lately I have been trying to change that, so I can get straights A's so my Mom and Dad will be proud of me. But because my classes have been so rigores my…
Most excitement and fear flow through my body that night. The anticipation of tomorrow was barely suppressed. I struggled to force the anticipation of tomorrow was barely suppressed. I struggled to force mean day aside. I could not afford to be distracted and I needed rest. I still wonder how I was able to sleep at all that night. My thoughts and emotions crashed and claimed around my mind but somehow, I slept. I awoke refreshed and full of adrenaline. I wasn’t very hungry but knew I must eat. After a small quick breakfast I packed my gear and headed to the tournament.…
Identity is an individual’s comprehension of him or herself. This course has helped me discover my sense of identity. In addition, it has changed me in subtle ways. Honestly, I am a very stubborn person. It is relatively hard to change my beliefs about something. Therefore, this course was a stepping-stone in the right direction. I have changed and developed my sense of identity in three different areas. The first area I have enhanced is my personal identity. To my knowledge, personal identity deals with questions about oneself. I hope I’m not being too vague. It is obvious that everyone has questions they ask about themselves. However, personal identity is hard to understand for most. I researched personal identity and found that it asks questions…
I woke this morning just like every morning sprawled out on my old mattress on the floor. As I began to wake to what seemed like an ordinary hot summer day. As I was getting changed there was a loud urgent bang on the door of the little tin hut at the edge of the lake I called home. This was unusual as I live alone and don’t usually get any visitors apart from the odd lost hiker. I finished getting changed and opened to door to meet them. “Please I need your help!” a distressed teenager pleaded “My boyfriend and I were camping down the track and he’s missing!, there’s blood everywhere I, I just ran and ran and found a little track which lead me here”. Realising the extent of the situation I lead her inside and told her to tell me exactly what…
Everyone struggles at one time or another. Some people struggle more than others. In 2011 my family lost our home and had to stay with our family members and friends. The times were hard, but the person I became because of this struggle knows the value of something so small. Through the hard times I found a way to get back on track.…
After walking into Piccadilly’s, we were seated in the center booth against the wall where you had a view of the whole room. We were each given plates and access to the buffet after giving our drink orders. After we all sit down and are waiting we are approached by a lady and her two sons; she turns to my grandfather and says hello. This is not a unfamiliar happening to me, having random people come up and greet us, everybody in the city seems to know the famous Dr. Horn. Whether from teaching them in middle school, being their high school principal, or doing their taxes through H and R block people from all over Wichita seem to recognize him. When I looked up I see she had turned to me and was speaking. “… she called me Moncy then.”…
All my life I’ve felt like I was constantly reaching, constantly pushing myself to work hard and achieve goals that to me, didn’t seem difficult to obtain. I never believed that I couldn’t do it. But for 10 of the 17 years of my life all I was doing was reaching, never actually grabbing a hold of whatever it was that I was reaching for.…