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1. Do you feel good about the decision you made to become dauntless? Yes, it has helped me escape from my past but also has helped me deal with it mentally. I have been able to come to terms with my father and the loss of my mother. But then I think “Can I possibly make a place for myself among them? I don’t know.”(33) This shows that I am nervous and scared about the outcome if I fail, but am willing to do my best in order to succeed. 2. Why did you decide to choose dauntless over abnegation? This was a very hard decision at first because my dad expected me to pick abnegation. However, in the end I was debating between Erudite, Dauntless, Candor, or Amity. I ended up choosing Dauntless after I had gone through this process, “Not
It was Saturday morning at Alexan’s vacation home in Tehachapi, CA. We ate our breakfast, and decided to go for a hike in the dangerous mountains of Tehachapi. It was approximately fifty degrees Fahrenheit and the clouds had covered the mountains, causing the area to be very foggy and difficult to see. Knowing that it was not a good idea Alexan still managed to convince me to go hiking, and he said to me, “Don’t worry it will be fine”. This reminded me of Oliveira saying to Ronald, “I think you feel very sure of yourself, firmly planted in yourself and in your surroundings” (Oliveira 161). Both Ronald and my friend Alexan felt very sure that they were right, and did not have any worries. I do not think Alexan even took a single thought about the dangers we could face hiking in the steep mountains with the harsh conditions we were facing. Ronald did not care to change his mind and agree with Oliveira, because he felt very confident with what he believed.
His persuasive book sounds a clear warning to all who would circumscribe their Although Mark?s early hearing acuity, stubborn determination, excellent educational opportunities and strong family support helped him to find a measure of success, he regrets the slow progress of his emotional and spiritual development. He says that at age 22, "the real me, the fully-actualized Mark Drolsbaugh, was only about one or two years old." Now he says, "I am proud of who I am, proud of what I?ve overcome, and proud of ...
No one is perfect, not even those who feel superior to others; however those who wish to follow their dreams are more alive than ever. Of course, no one makes wise choices but following your own aspiration makes a person more alive. The reason for this is because they are following their own dreams. In fact, the people who go out and follow their dreams are explorer or achievers but the vision of their dreams can become fatal. Chris McCandless was a hitchhiker who went out to Alaska to get away from society. Unfortunately, he died, but along the book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, he takes the readers through Chris’s thoughts and journeys before he heads to Alaska. Naturally Chris had knowledge, skills, and independence but he had some
In Junior and Senior year I was put into a alternative education class so it would be easier for me to speak and I wouldn 't have anxiety. That decision was the best decision. There were 8 kids in the class instead of 35. It got easier and easier for me to speak. I can now voice my own opinion but still be afraid. I don’t really care if people are quirky and I have my flaws. People who truly care about me will look past them. I now help people who are struggling with the same things I went through, because I know what is was like and I don’t want them to go throw the pain and suffering I went through. I try to help others overcome fear of judgment like I had to
...a half years ago, I figured that compared to most people, I was fairly aware. Since then, the most important thing I’ve learned is how much I don’t know. I don’t know what it is like to go to class and be the only dark spot on white linen. I don’t know what it is like to have to fight mentally, physically, and spiritually to preserve a cultural identity. I don’t know what it is like to fear running at night. I don’t know what it is like to be feared if I run at night. I don’t know what it is like to live under a shroud of stereotypes. I don’t know what it is like to have people who instruct me subtly ignore me and people who sit next to me subtly avoid me.
In life there are many roads we walked down. I have seen them all, been there done that. Yet, I continue to walk down the same road day after day, to find myself falling short and falling in hole I can barely, and scarcely crawl out of. Until one day I fell in a hole so dark and so deep that I, myself, could not get out. I sat in this hole for what seemed like years, alone, cold, and afraid. And that's
Since I was little, my family has taught me how to be humble. My family and I are adventurist and we like going out camping and having different experiences in each place we go. At the age of six, I experienced camping for the first time, it was scary at first but eventually it became more comfortable and I loved it. My childhood consisted of similar experiences, but it was not until age 16 when I understood what it was like to be in a calm place. I liked the feeling of being able to get away from society for a couple of days and have the opportunity to shake some stress away. It also meant no homework and no worries because I found an interior peace in a place where nothing more exists than the beauty of nature. Now, when I think about society I find myself in a more stressed mood, with many things to do and having to deal with some people. McCandless was a young man who believed that being around society can be poisonous and is a trap, that the hypocrisy and arrogance of the people had not end. Especially because he was not materialistic when it came to possessions such as cars or houses. Something that caught my attention is his ideologies about nature, his courage to go into the wild alone and the way he was fascinated by the nature, the sky and the small joys of life.
I wanted to make a positive impact on a person 's wellbeing as well. This conflict led into my next stage through early adulthood in Erikson’s view, intimacy versus isolation. Since I have been unable to pinpoint a career, I lost a sense of identity to connect with other people. I am still aware that it is okay to not know what career you want when you grow up. The inner turmoil in trying to figure out where my true passion lies still exists, and influences how I interact with people. I am not content with still being unable to decide, and it is hard for me to like myself whole-heartedly. Mixing these low self-esteem emotions into my day-to-day routine has led me to being unable to start conversations with other peers or coworkers or to trust others. Being unable to find my role in the original stage during adolescence did make it complicated for me to handle my next stage of development, much to what Erikson theorized for his psychosocial stages. During the event, witnessing my dad almost lose consciousness to a hazard of diabetic coma also impacts how I deal with
“The nature of self-love and of this human Ego is to love self only and consider self only. But what will man do? He cannot prevent this object that he loves from being full of faults and wants. He wants to be great, and he sees himself small. He wants to be happy, and he sees himself miserable. He wants to be perfect, but he see’s himself full of imperfections” (49). When I was in Vancouver I tried so hard to be able to love myself, but all I could see was imperfections within a very lost soul. I tried to continually fuel this inner pain by turning to drugs to imitate the love and feeling that I was so strongly wishing for, and found that I was pushing myself even further into depression through the continual follies I was making by catering to these wants. “Truly it is evil to be full of faults; but it is still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion” (49). I was full of faults and was unable to recognize them until I was able to step back and reconsider my position and the choices I made. Through my wise decision of moving to Calgary, I was able to realize that I was not perfect and I am full of faults, but that it is something that I have been working on and I have been able to love who I am a substantially larger amount in
We all have those days where we feel so hopeless or unable to do anything right. We have all felt that we couldn’t finish school or other life challenges. We question everything about life, that’s what happened with me. I had never had a normal life and now it takes a turn for the worse. I grew up under the circumstances that forced me to become more responsible and mature, which has enabled me to succeed later in life.
There are moments in this life that set people on a path towards greatness. When I was in the fourth grade, my parents were having problems with their marriage. These were not the typical problems that could be resolved within a day. They were problems that produced screaming matches in the evening, slammed doors and a fourth grader too afraid to interrupt in order to get a parental signature on her reading log for the week. I thought the worst of my problems were over when my my father left our family, our home. Finally, there was peace. I would have felt guilty about my pleasure upon his departure, except I knew that things would be easier without him. Yet this peace did not last long. Perhaps a week later my mother pulled me out of school and told me that she was going to visit my father, she told me that he was sick.
There are strengths I always knew I had,such as kindness, that I didn’t know how to use to it’s highest effect. Then there were strengths that I just didn’t know how to use at all, such as forgiveness and mercy. It is difficult to hone such abstract states of being in oneself and I know I’ll have work harder and devise new plans and ideas to strengthen these traits and others. I believe that the process of strengthening each was beneficial to my well being as I focused on inward strength as well as outward. I can only hope that my efforts touched someone else as deeply as doing them touched
When growing up in this day, with many of our fellow men and women trying to get a taste of the good life. They will try to obtain happiness in very different ways with how they treat each other. The choices I have made have given me great opportunities to create a better and more fulfilling life for me. The reason I believe that choices affect our lives so greatly is because most of us our given a fair chance in todays world. An example from my life is being able to get over family problems with my dad. I made a life choice not to have contact with him because of the man I saw when I was a child. The troubles in my family will help me be a strong and more independent person throughout my life. Having independence will help me continue to grow into a hopefully more successful adult. Making the choice in not having contact with my father was a difficult decision. It was hard to keep a relationship with my real brother because he still keeps in touch with my dad. My older brother may look down on my choice, but I believe that I made a better choice. In the future I may have regretted in not speaking to my father, but for right now I think it is better to cut all communication with him. Being able to make a hard choices in cutting communicati...
... my determination and self-assurance paid off. Not only did I learn how to climb and to overcome my fear of heights, but I also learned something about myself. I have more confidence than what I thought I did before. Sometimes when I go rock climbing I think back at this moment and just laugh to myself. The struggle, the frustration, and pain, but all worthwhile. I now know when I am faced with a new and uncomfortable situation I’m not so worried or nervous instead I challenge it. Everyone encounters a fear in their life, some walk away and some overcome it, am glad I did. I may feel out of my comfort zone in the beginning, but I know that as I practice and stay persistent being in that new situation and as my skills get better; I will slowly but surely feel more comfortable. It is a truly great, free feeling when you accomplish a goal you have set for yourself.
To be the person that I am now, I had to reflect and accept accountability of my past actions. My past is one that many would love to erase from their memory, a past, which remained dormant, until I found myself. The steps involved in regaining myself encompassed letting go of my anger and self pity. I had to look within myself and see my self’s worth, which lead to my belief that I ran away to college to forget my past. During the years leading to entrance to college, I became caught up with friends, cared way too much about my appearance, and became “that girl” who needed others to be happy. I lost sight of my goal, to become a lawyer. My goals were buried by my present materialization infatuation, thus my dreams, and my values, failed just to create a façade of which I came to despise. Through my journey and reflection, I came to appreciate family values and redemption. Like others, my trials and tribulations came full circle.