MENTAL BLOCK
i’m at granny’s place right now and i am soo lost. i really don’t know how i’m going to write your reaction paper about self awareness and values because 1. i wasn’t there and haha 2. it’s hard! but i’m doing it anyways. don’t worry. :p
so here it goes. you do the editing and e’ything.
I’M JUST going to write whatever comes into my mind, ok? even if this essay has to start in a question. hahaha.
Self Awareness and values. I hear people talk about it all the time. In church, we learn that in order to live good lives, we ought to base them on certain values constructed for us in order to do so. We’ve been told once or twice before that certain values such as honesty, respect, obedience and etc. are few of the many values that we ought to base our lives on in order to live good, progressive lives. But the question is, is it enough to live a life based on good values and not know who you are or exactly why you do what you are doing?
Self awareness and good values walk hand in hand. You cannot have or live up to certain values unless you know yourself or unless you are aware of what you are doing and most importantly why (other than the reasons dictated to us). Think of it, what is the use of being a nice person to others because that’s what you’re supposed to be when inside you, you cannot stop talking about them behind their backs? That would just make you a hypocrite and would lead you nowhere in the future.
I guess everyone has values to remind them that in the society you simply cannot be just anyone you like. That there are certain rules of conduct that we need follow and that we have to be aware of our surroundings and the people in it. If we didn’t have values, everyone would probably be doing whatever they wanted and their would be no order in the world. Can you picture out what kind of world we would be in if this was the course of life? HAHA. I SWEAR CORNY KAAYU PAMINAWN. SAUN.
If life is a journey, in that journey, we are bound to run into people. People who start out as strangers
and eventually turn into friends, enemies, family, etc. But none of these relationships would have last or be meaningful if we do not truly know ourselves. Any person can say that he/ she is respectful, honest, obedient, caring but in the end, the important thing is not the number of times we’ve said or how convincing we may seem while saying it. It’s how we actually live our lives displaying good and truthful values.HAHAHAHA. SORRY.
