Me Myself and I Essay

Perfectly Content As I gently jog through the woods consecutively putting one foot in front of the other my thoughts run rampant. Memories flow through my mind and make me forget about the arduous labor my body is having to withstand. My calves ache; however, my heart will not let me quit. I continue to compete against numerous ladies my age who are of the same strength as myself. However, I ultimately know they are of no competition to me; moreover, I will triumph in the end. As I…

happiness project, I have noticed many developments within myself and my way of viewing the world. From the RBS analysis done by my friends and family, to the key research findings outlined in this project, I have seen growth in myself through this project, specifically the happiness activities. I began this project by selecting a few goals that would lead me to increase my happiness over the course of a semester, with help of 3 goal related happiness activities. The goals that I chose were…

be a counselor. Being flexible will aid me in counseling people of Different cultural backgrounds with multicultural issues. As a counselor, flexibility will also help me to know when to refer a client. Having a sense of humor can be useful in counseling. I am a person with a good sense of humor. Sometimes you just have to laugh at life to keep going. Having a good sense of humor keeps me happy emotionally, personally and professionally. It helps me not to take everything seriously and…

I was in fourth grade, sitting in the lunch room alone hearing a group of boys making cruel jokes about me and saying things like “Look how ugly and fat Monica is.” Their snickering echoed through my head. I was so distraught, but I wasn’t going to be that girl that would get bullied. I needed to stand up for myself, and so I did. As a fourth grader, I took the situation and handled it with as much strength as I could. It took me years to completely end the bullying, in fact, I would say that I…

I got a 50% on the openness section of my personality test. This both surprised and did not surprise me. It surprised me because, as a strong democrat, I like to consider myself to be very open and accepting to people of all religions, races, genders, preferences, etc. After I read more about this section, it turned out I was thinking of openness in a different way. I was not surprised when I read the actual definition of openness this test was using. I do not consider myself to be someone who…

about themselves, for me, the color of my skin. I was never ashamed of being biracial. I grew up with my white mother and black father until they separated when I was 8. The concept of an interracial couple was never foreign to me because I grew up around it my whole life. I never acknowledged the idea that to some people is seemed "wrong" or "disgusting". I met my girlfriend when I was 16 years old. Never did I look at her as “white” but as the girl that I had feelings for. I was aware that we…

article, I experienced different things for myself when going through and reading each section. A lot of references that were stated in the book allowed me to see dance through a whole new perspective. Taking the first part of this chapter, “learning how to dance” is not a straight path traveling forward, but it is more of a journey of discovery and trial and error. For me, occasionally I am very hard on myself and I experience the feeling of “I feel like I’m not getting better at this” or “I…

fright. Ever since I was young, performing or even speaking in front of an audience has been incredibly hard for me. In seventh grade, I let this fear have power over me. Before performing the piece we’ve been practicing in front of Solo & Ensemble judges, each year we have an orchestra recital in front of our parents to help us prepare. The purpose is to allow us to adjust to playing for other people and to give our teachers an idea of how ready we are. When I was in seventh grade, I had never…

themselves can own their learning. The ways I own my learning are by keeping myself organized, participating in extracurricular activities, and by looking for ways to better understand any concept. These habits impact my future because I will eventually learn to organize myself and be a responsible adult, knowledge from the extracurricular activities will help me in future careers, improving my learning will have sharpened my knowledge. I make certain to teach myself( with the help of my…

Sometimes I think back and I wonder why I did the stuff that I did in my past. Why was I so unfocused and lazy in my past ? When I view myself from the past, and from now, and my future, I see a big difference in myself. In the past, I was lazy and unfocused, and now I am more focused about myself now and my future. In the past, I was so unfocused, and undetermined, and lazy to reach what I wanted to be in my life. One reason why I was so unfocused is because I wanted to fit in and be like…