Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Activity 8

I have many different things happen through my life that have some how transitioned me to where I am today. One in particular the I think had the biggest impact on my life was Moving out of my parents house.

When I moved out and attended Mankato State University, I gained a new appreciation for my family. I have always loved my family but I was very bad at showing it through out highschool. i do not know why I was the way I was to them but looking back at it, the way I treated my family at the time was unacceptable.

They were nothing but amazing to me through out my entire life and I never truly appreciated them. I grew up very fast. My relationship with my family has become closer than ever since I was able to reevalute myself and the way I had been treating the people that were most important to me. They have had such an impact on the person that I am today and it was about time that I started treating them that way. My family can not believe what a pleasure I am to be around when they looked back at how I treated them before.

I think I was caught up in my friendships and I stopped caring about what meant most to me. It can make a huge impact on your personality when you surround yourself with people that are not respectful.

Question: Has there been anyone or any group of people that have influenced your attitudes in a negative transition. If so, What did you do to transision yourself in a positive direction.

5 comments:

  1. I don't have any one person whom has influenced me in a negative way. But I do know of many small incidents with people that have set me down a negative path. For instance, I have encountered several people in the academic field that I don't have much respect for. I also used to work in a kitchen with a mean chef. Needless to say, he and I had a few encounters. And after each encounter, my personal outlook changed negatively. But to get myself feeling better I generally do what I always do when I get stressed out: I listen to music. That way, I can relax and "move on" at the same time.

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  2. I don't think there has been anyone that has negatively influenced me in a transition. I think that it's mostly because I don't follow the influence of others if it is negative. I am the person I am, and I do the tings I do. I will allow people to help me through transitions in my life if they are making an impact on the situation or on me in general. The only ways I can think of negatively being influenced right now is by people turning you into a drug or alcohol user, or some other negative thing like that, and nobody would influence me to do anything of that sort!

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  3. When I attended the U of M you weren't cool if you went home often and didn't party, and I also kind of put my family on the back burner. When I went home for the summer I realized how much I needed my family and how much happier I was when I was spending time with them and was being productive and not partying often. Here in River Falls I don't feel that pressure and I think I'm a much better person because I'm just who I am. I'm not trying to be something other people want me to be.

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  4. I can not think of someone who has caused me to transition me negatively. There may have been sometime but I think we tend to focus more on the positive transitions we have made. Some people have influenced me to make a bad decision every now and then, like going out instead of studying for a test, but I wouldn’t call it a transition.

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  5. Yes I would have to say my third grade teacher would always put me on the spot for subjects that she knew I was not good at and so then after that year I hated math and reading and to this day they are my weak points.

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