Day 15

What is an epiphany? Have you experienced a moment of epiphany? What caused it to occur, and what effect did it have on your life? Do you think that this epiphany has caused you to be any different as a person? How?

Here is my response:

I had an epiphany during a Physics exam my junior year of college. At the time, I was pre-med but was kind of miserable because I was not doing well in my science classes and was studying all the time. Also, all of my jobs that I had during the year and in the summer dealt with working with kids. While taking this exam, it hit me that I was choosing medicine for all the wrong reasons such as thinking it would make my parents happy and that I would make money. Yet, I realized that making money and making others happy was foolish if it was not going to make me happy. After the exam, I dropped my pre-med designation and began taking classes I enjoyed.

Day 14

What was the most difficult time of your life, and why? How did your perspective on life change as a result of the difficulty? This difficult change anyone besides you in the positive or negative?

Day 13

Consider your favorite books, movies, songs, works of arts, etc. Have these influenced your life, or how you look at life? Why are they your favorites? Give one specific example of one of these and how it has impacted your life specifically.

Day 12

Who is/has been one of your heroes? Discuss what qualities this hero had that made you admire him/her/it. How would you emulate this person in the future and maybe even have people view you as a hero?

Day 11

Does any attribute, quality, or skill distinguish you from everyone else? How did you develop it? How does this skill make you feel about yourself? If there is the chance that you want to answer no to this then tell me why you feel this way. Doesn't everyone have something that distinguishes them from the rest of the people they are with?

Day 10

Define, again, the idea of discrimination. Give me examples of discrimination in the world. Give me an example of discrimination that has occured in your life and how it made you feel. Give an example of a time you have discriminated against others. Why? How did it make you feel? How do you think it made the other person feel? Did you care? Why or why not? Finally, why do you think we accept discrimination in our society?

Day 9

There is the idea of what do we get out of being nice to others. This often rings true during this holiday season. Listen to the following song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9G60wvH7Y then tell me:

1. Would you do what this man did? Why or why not?
2. Are people more likely to react this way during this time of year than other times? Why or why not?
3. If you answered yes to #2, why do you think this is true about people and society?
4. If you answered no to #2, what causes people to do nice things for others even if we do not know them?
5. Lastly, do you see yourself as a generous giving person? Why or why not? Give an example if you say yes.

Have a great weekend.