Introspective Midterm
1. How does the acceptance of impermanence become challenging in your relationships? Give a detailed personal example of this struggle using the lecture definition. According to lecture impermanence means things are constantly changing, so nothing is forever or permanent. Impermanence is usually challenging for me, because I have a hard time adjusting to change when I still feel the same about a situation or a person. For instance, when there is a death in my family I often have a difficult time accepting impermanence. Namely, the death of my godfather was very difficult for me, because I was used to talking to him all the time and going to his house after school. Impermanence is challenging, because I still want to see …show more content…
For instance, my roommate constantly wants to talk to me about her girlfriend when we are home. I do not care for her girlfriend, so I feel like our conversation are often positive to a negative. When we have a conversation about her girlfriend I am often the one being negative while my roommate remains positive. I am negative because I am narrow minded when we discuss her girlfriend. Namely, I am often negative, because I do not want to hear about their problems or successes. More simply, I am narrow minded when it comes to listening or discussing things about their relationship, because I have personal feeling which causes me to not be open to accepting them as a couple. Overall, my roommate and I often have a positive to negative transaction when we discuss her …show more content…
For instance, in my group people were discussing how they were uncomfortable with homosexuals. During the discussion, I closed my window of tolerance, because I have friends that are homosexual, so I disagreed with some of the comments that people were making. My window of tolerance was not open, because I did not agree with the topic and did want to hear others’ opinions that seemed narrow minded. Additionally, I closed my window of tolerance, because the conversation seemed bias and one side, which made me not want to listen or engage in the
1. How does the acceptance of impermanence become challenging in your relationships? Give a detailed personal example of this struggle using the lecture definition. According to lecture impermanence means things are constantly changing, so nothing is forever or permanent. Impermanence is usually challenging for me, because I have a hard time adjusting to change when I still feel the same about a situation or a person. For instance, when there is a death in my family I often have a difficult time accepting impermanence. Namely, the death of my godfather was very difficult for me, because I was used to talking to him all the time and going to his house after school. Impermanence is challenging, because I still want to see …show more content…
For instance, my roommate constantly wants to talk to me about her girlfriend when we are home. I do not care for her girlfriend, so I feel like our conversation are often positive to a negative. When we have a conversation about her girlfriend I am often the one being negative while my roommate remains positive. I am negative because I am narrow minded when we discuss her girlfriend. Namely, I am often negative, because I do not want to hear about their problems or successes. More simply, I am narrow minded when it comes to listening or discussing things about their relationship, because I have personal feeling which causes me to not be open to accepting them as a couple. Overall, my roommate and I often have a positive to negative transaction when we discuss her …show more content…
For instance, in my group people were discussing how they were uncomfortable with homosexuals. During the discussion, I closed my window of tolerance, because I have friends that are homosexual, so I disagreed with some of the comments that people were making. My window of tolerance was not open, because I did not agree with the topic and did want to hear others’ opinions that seemed narrow minded. Additionally, I closed my window of tolerance, because the conversation seemed bias and one side, which made me not want to listen or engage in the