Every human being has a consciousness and is self-aware of their feelings and what is happening around them. Even though some people through their life experience are aware to distinguish if they are orientated on the right path or not; some people like me are still experiencing life and still figuring out if they are orientated or disorientated. Through friends and ones’ goals in life can enable them to find their way.
Finding our way and knowing who we are is very difficult because sometimes we tend to think that we already know who we are, but along the way we discover that what we thought to be is not that. Ahmed started “of how is it that we come to find our way in a world that acquires new shapes, depending on which way we turn” (1). Society wants us to abide by the law and follow what they want us to follow. But do we really need to conform to certain rules? For instance society wants us to go to school and have a diploma in order to have a decent job. Do we really need everything that school teaches us? For me school does not teach us what we will need in real life. In school, I learned that God did not create the sky and the earth and that it all started with the Big Bang. Through my family, I learned something different. During my high school years, …show more content…
For me, I have to say that my feelings make me myself. I am the type of person who doesn’t hide what she feels and if something gets on my nerves, I will talk to that person about it right away without even thinking. Ahmed said, “emotions are directed to what we come into contact with: they move us “toward” and “away” from such objects” (2). I do believe that emotions can make me react a certain way to certain things and even move us away from someone that we love. For Example I love my parents so much, but I also feel passionate about finding my own way. I needed to leave them to explore myself and what opportunities I could
Finding our way and knowing who we are is very difficult because sometimes we tend to think that we already know who we are, but along the way we discover that what we thought to be is not that. Ahmed started “of how is it that we come to find our way in a world that acquires new shapes, depending on which way we turn” (1). Society wants us to abide by the law and follow what they want us to follow. But do we really need to conform to certain rules? For instance society wants us to go to school and have a diploma in order to have a decent job. Do we really need everything that school teaches us? For me school does not teach us what we will need in real life. In school, I learned that God did not create the sky and the earth and that it all started with the Big Bang. Through my family, I learned something different. During my high school years, …show more content…
For me, I have to say that my feelings make me myself. I am the type of person who doesn’t hide what she feels and if something gets on my nerves, I will talk to that person about it right away without even thinking. Ahmed said, “emotions are directed to what we come into contact with: they move us “toward” and “away” from such objects” (2). I do believe that emotions can make me react a certain way to certain things and even move us away from someone that we love. For Example I love my parents so much, but I also feel passionate about finding my own way. I needed to leave them to explore myself and what opportunities I could