A more perfect me
Benjamin Franklin once wrote an autobiography detailing his efforts to become a better human being. Franklin listed 13 virtues which he needed to improve on and intended to follow and he reflected on his experience. Being human means being able to improve; an author of one of my favorite books, Anthony Burgess, once wrote that humans are not like a clockwork orange, meaning due to our capability to change, we do not have to follow a deterministic mechanism; we have free will. For this paper, I will follow Benjamin Franklin's example and efforts to change and I will reflect on who I am, as a human being. I will also analyze three minor flaws that I have and …show more content…
While I try to keep my school work organized and neat, I tend to put less of a stress on doing the same for my personal items. You see, after school has ended and I've finished sports practice, I'm usually sluggish and indolent. To try to give you a picture in your head of what my room looks like daily, I ask you to google "aftermath of World War I." While changing my habits may be hard, I think one way I can keep my items at home neat would be to be more careful after school with all of my items and try not to misplace anything. I could also decide on a day to take time aside, and clean everything in my room and organize all of my items. I'm sure if I had the willingness and resolve to really try to prevent my room from becoming untidy, I wouldn't have the …show more content…
While that seems both pessimistic and cynical, it may also have some truth to it. What counts as deceit? Is it wearing makeup to cover physical flaws? Smiling even when you know it's not genuine? Having a friend you dislike? If those are examples of deceit, then I'd say many people are in constant guilt of insincerity, including me. I can try to be more sincere by adhering to who I believe I am, as a person. Rather than being around people I dislike, I should find people I can act naturally around. Rather than pretend to feel what I don't actually feel, I should be more honest with people about how I actually feel. I don't have to be rude or even blunt with my thoughts and feelings, just more
Benjamin Franklin once wrote an autobiography detailing his efforts to become a better human being. Franklin listed 13 virtues which he needed to improve on and intended to follow and he reflected on his experience. Being human means being able to improve; an author of one of my favorite books, Anthony Burgess, once wrote that humans are not like a clockwork orange, meaning due to our capability to change, we do not have to follow a deterministic mechanism; we have free will. For this paper, I will follow Benjamin Franklin's example and efforts to change and I will reflect on who I am, as a human being. I will also analyze three minor flaws that I have and …show more content…
While I try to keep my school work organized and neat, I tend to put less of a stress on doing the same for my personal items. You see, after school has ended and I've finished sports practice, I'm usually sluggish and indolent. To try to give you a picture in your head of what my room looks like daily, I ask you to google "aftermath of World War I." While changing my habits may be hard, I think one way I can keep my items at home neat would be to be more careful after school with all of my items and try not to misplace anything. I could also decide on a day to take time aside, and clean everything in my room and organize all of my items. I'm sure if I had the willingness and resolve to really try to prevent my room from becoming untidy, I wouldn't have the …show more content…
While that seems both pessimistic and cynical, it may also have some truth to it. What counts as deceit? Is it wearing makeup to cover physical flaws? Smiling even when you know it's not genuine? Having a friend you dislike? If those are examples of deceit, then I'd say many people are in constant guilt of insincerity, including me. I can try to be more sincere by adhering to who I believe I am, as a person. Rather than being around people I dislike, I should find people I can act naturally around. Rather than pretend to feel what I don't actually feel, I should be more honest with people about how I actually feel. I don't have to be rude or even blunt with my thoughts and feelings, just more