Tommy Ireland
Dr. Ellis
Understanding Literature
14 March 2013
iExamen 2
I
definitely learned so much more about myself for this examen than I did for the
last examen. I also had way more fun
doing this examen as well. To start, I
thought this was going to be kind of hard.
The reason why I say this is that by nature, I am very sarcastic
person. With this being said, I say a
lot of things that could come of as rude or offensive but it really is just a
joke. This is why going into it I
thought it was going to be challenging.
To my surprise of course, it turned out to be awesome.
When
I first woke up, I first checked my phone.
I responded to texts with various ways of being kind, useful, and
true. For example, if someone asked if I
wanted to go get breakfast, I said, “Certainly, I would love to eat breakfast
with you.” The only down side to this is
that since I am very sarcastic, some of my friends did not believe me. However, I did not let this get me
discouraged. I kept being positive and using kind and truthful things to say to
everyone. As my day passed, I noticed
how compliments were a huge a factor. I
used so many compliments when I saw my friends.
I told them that they looked great and other compliments along the line
of that. Also, my compliments also were
about what their friendship meant to me.
I think this was very interesting because I got to really think about
what each and everyone of my friends really meant to me. I was surprised how passionate I really was
even for the most casual of friends.
When
it got later in the day, I returned to my dorm.
My dorm has a couch so it is were most of my friends come to just relax
and unwind after their day of schoolwork.
I noticed since I was being kind and true, that I never talked badly
about someone else. I don’t normally
talk bad about people but there are times when it is almost inevitable to do
so. I sat back and did not participate
in the gossip that was occurring. What I
realized is that it is so much less stressful when you don’t participate in
talking about others behind their backs.
I really enjoyed the relief of not having to worry about someone
possibly hearing myself talking about them.
With this being said, this was definitely one of the most important
things I learned. The fact that I
realized how stressful talking bad about people behind their backs was really
amazing. I am so glad I found this out.
Overall,
this was such a valuable experience. I
had so much fun in the process. I
learned that telling people the honest truth about how I feel about them not
only made them feel good, but I also felt good in the process. I felt that I was making such a positive
impact on the people I came in contact with.
What I learned from this is that I can make myself and the area around
me more positive and happier just by saying positive, kind things to
people. It made even the cold day of
Wednesday seem warm and happy. Earlier
in this paper I talked about how I learned that not talking bad about people relieved
me of unnecessary stress. This was such
a great discovery for me and I am so glad I got the opportunity to find this
out. Going into this, I viewed talking
about people as a normal thing that doesn’t affect the way you feel
overall. Wow, was I wrong! This not only made me realize how it relieves
me from stress but also made me a nicer person.
I am putting into practice every day for now on the act of being kind
and truthful. I never thought that I
would learn such valuable life lessons from doing such a simple exercise such
as one like this. I am grateful for the
opportunity and hope I can try similar exercises such as this in the
future. On a lighter note, my friends
won’t be thinking I’m being sarcastic when I be extremely nice to them!
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