1ST Quarter_Week 1_Written Work

 17/20

Personal Comment: Hahaha. I suck as a person kasi. Low-key gusto ko nang mamatay.

Instructions:

Answer the following questions in not less than 5 sentences. Observe proper grammar and expression. Be guided by the rubrics.

1. WHO AM I AS A PERSON?

     I’ve been told many contradicting things about myself coming from the people that surround me. From what I’ve gathered so far: I am selfish yet selfless, bitchy yet kind, and a chill person that’s easily irritated. According to Cooley’s looking-glass self-theory, people base their sense of self on how they believe others view them but in my case, I think I’m pretty lost (as all others are). Ever since quarantine has started, I’ve been going through a self-finding journey combined with self-improvement. I exercised, opened up to my family, started controlling my temper, and even adjusted some of my point of view. Even now after all that I’ve done, I’m still lost on who I really am. I’m not quite there yet and honestly, I’m feeling helpless. Hopefully, I’ll make it through and find myself as a person that I can respect. Right now, rather than finding who “I” am as a person, I’m more focused on who “I” want to become. I want to be a person that I can love.

2. HOW DO I REACT WHEN SOMEONE BACKBITES ME OR TALKS SOMETHING BAD ABOUT ME?

    We judge other people by their action but we judge ourselves by our intention. If I could get a gold coin for every time that someone says a bad thing about me behind my back, I’d probably have a treasure chest full of them by now. I mean, we all do. It’s a normal human characteristic to judge other humans (may it be a correct assumption or not). Which is why things like that doesn’t bother me as much as it used to anymore. Rather than getting angry at someone for talking behind my back, I’ll take their words as an opportunity to reflect upon myself. Are they really wrong? If not, then what would I do to improve myself?  With this, I’ll be able to cultivate myself to become a better person instead of stooping down to a low level by arguing with someone just because I didn’t like their opinions about me.

3.  WHAT ARE MY WEAKNESSES AND/OR VULNERABILITIES?

    As a teenager going through adolescence, I have changed so much and I’m still in the process of changing. In this process, I have overcome some difficulties that I have faced with only a few more that I’m still working on. One of the things that I can’t seem to manage is my sudden emotional outbursts. One moment, I’ll be completely fine and the next thing I knew, I’m suddenly crying over basically nothing. I get agitated quite easily over small things. An example of this would be with my personal belongings. As a person who has few items of possession, I can get pretty annoyed when someone touches my stuff without my permission. This correlates with my other weakness: I am an overtly attached person. May it be a person or an item, if they became precious to me, I’ll hold on like a leech sucking blood. This feeling of codependency has taken a toll on my anxiety and mental health. It has come to a point where I purposely sabotage my relationship with the people around me just so that I will escape these feelings of vulnerability. This dependency and cowardice of mine is something that I wish to overcome when the time comes.

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