Describe four ways that your personal experience affects the way you interpret the world around you.
1)I had one really great friend for some of my more formative years, ages 13-16 or so. When he moved away, I realized I had become far too dependent, and spent several months experiencing internal turmoil determining a solution. Since then I've always had trouble allowing any one person to get to know me too well.
2) I've "lost" some friends to drugs, especially when I was younger, and it really led me to believe that "drugs" as a general idea were bad (to use a general term). I also more recently have made some friends through drugs. Recognizing the variability of this belief helped me to understand my own worldview; I have trouble terming anything as good or bad when everything is so impersonal.
3) My childhood was loosely based around standard Christian tradition. Largely, I went to church on Sunday and celebrated Christmas, Easter, etc. Yet the very general laissez-faire approach my parents took to this aspect of my life allowed me the freedom to see, from within the religious mindset, the lack of congruency between belief and practice. I remain unconvinced!
4) Both of my brothers graduated from High School at least Cum Laude, with myself graduating maybe optimistically at a 3.2; both of them also left college after two successful 4.0 semesters to pursue other interests (musical), but I left home thinking I would impress my parents and stick it out.
Well. Here I am.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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