Personal Reflection Paper On 'Abstinence'

Abstinence Summary Paper I have been starring at my computer for almost ten minutes, trying to figure out what to say. I feel like I left everything in my logs. My thoughts about the assignment, my feelings in general about masturbation, things that happened in my life during the time I stayed abstinent. However, the one thing that intrigues me is, it was not that difficult to keep from masturbating. I would say that if you ask most people, they would probably say that I am an honest person. I think if you asked those same people, if I have self-control, they would say most defiantly yes, and in general, I consider that to be true. I am honest with many people and have great self-control. However, I am infrequently honest with the one person who matters most—myself. I think I mentioned in …show more content…
Every person, including myself, needs to discipline themselves in order to live a more organized and happier life. If I gave in to all indulgences and desires, I would have zero control on any aspect of life, which in turn could and probably would lead to complete madness. Self-control was an important aspect of this abstinence assignment. Self-control helped in increasing my patience within myself. By developing better self-control skills, I kept myself from thinking about and doing something I really enjoy, and is perfectly normal. Over the last few weeks of abstinence, I feel I have gotten a better grasp of my own feelings, and tried to bring about change in those feelings. I did not want to be one of those people saying this assignment is impossible or given up on it, because that would mean I gave up on myself. Even though at times I thought it might have been silly (because I am not an addict), I did a lot of self-refection over the past few weeks. Some which I mentioned in my log, and others that I will keep to