Reflection Paper On Rode A Dolphin

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Emotion

The time I rode a dolphin was the most amazing few seconds of my life. I am six years old at the time and it’s my birthday. My mom plans for me to go to Discovery Cove with my grandmother. I lived in Florida for a good portion of my life and I was still in the part of a childhood where everything still resolves around you. My mother works at Discovery Cove. Discovery cove is a park in Sea World. I always loved Sea world and still visit whenever I see my Grand parents. Yet every time I go I compare it when I was 6. The day started like any other toasty summer day. We get in to the cool water. Crystal and shimmering, blue. The Instructor is tall and has long golden hair. He is adorned with the necklace that has an artfully crafted, …show more content…

It helped me realize how I can escape this cycle of suffering and isolation. Even gave the lesson that sometimes life gives tough choices. The way you react and respond to those situations is one of the few things that define you as a human being. Will I just take it and give up, let the sadness consume me or will I remember the good times, like when I rode that dolphin.
Emotion in my life has always been a guiding figure. Like most people I make most of my decisions based solely on feeling, no thought. Etymonline.com defines emotion as deriving from the Latin word emovere “move out, remove or agitate”. I think emotion not only drives and moves people to do things, it also effects how other see you. Someone who doesn’t show emotion is weird. If you show to much emotion then you are seen as also weird. Same thing is true with to little emotion. I have always struggled to control my emotions.
When I feel bad about something or I’m happy about something or I just had a bad day, emotion is how I react to it. I’m a crier. I admit it and I’m proud of because it allows me to show how I really feel. It also helps me to open up to people and get them to see past my usual personality. I am an emotional and passionate person because I believe that’s who I’m supposed to …show more content…

Maybe they hate themselves or don’t feel comfortable with who they are. That’s ok. Accepting yourself is part of learning to love you’re self. But when you put yourself down, question your worth and ask yourself why you’re flawed, all that will happen is your going to loose what makes life worth living. Some people cut and try to kill themselves. I had suicidal thought before, I wasn’t thinking about my family and friends. I let my emotions take control. I was lost. I thought other people could solve my problems for me. That is what a foul thinks. No one will ever get how you see the world. Your experience in many ways is separate from everyone else’s. Only you have your thoughts and emotions. You’re memories and ideas. You control your mind and body, no one

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