9.29.2010

some things I've been taught.


It's kind of funny taking an Introduction to Psychology class because I feel like I've had thorough practice in everything we talk about, for like my entire life! Today we started our unit on Motivation and Emotions. I'm a pretty motivated person on my own. I've always been driven by competition (with MYSELF) and it's kind of what gets me through each challenging task I face. But as we learned today in PSYC 1101, we need all kinds of emotion as well to be at our optimum functioning levels. Well, I've never really been an expert on emotion, but my family (and mainly my mother), have been my driving support for the little bit of emotion, I need to at least just get me through each day! We drew a wheel in class today that demonstrated the importance of these four main emotions.
Basically under-expressing one, will cause an over-expression of the opposite on the wheel, and a bunch of other boring stuff as well... BUT as we talked about our families' dynamics and the importance of all four of these emotions, I was very glad that in my house we always had someone there who understood us when we were scared. I found myself very grateful that I was always able to express when I was mad, and that we always had someone to comfort us when we were sad. Emotions can be a tricky thing sometimes, I think. There are so many taboos these days around when, why, where and how to express ourselves, that it's no wonder my psych class is full of so many different people, from so many different backgrounds. One thing we all share is that we have brains and a beating heart, the rest up for interpretation and discussion.
So this is my daily expression of emotion. Right now I am:
  • glad that I know what I know, and have learned what I've learned
  • scared I may not ever get this paper done, let alone for next Wednesday.
  • mad that it's taken me so long to just get this far.
  • sad that...well I'm not really sad about anything, but that's okay with me for tonight because I've got enough of the other 3 to hold me over!....NEVER MIND. I just couldn't get through the day without this one. I just broke my hair clip and have nothing else with me to hold my hair up while I study :( sad.
Just a little something to leave you to think about for tonight. What made you glad, scared, mad or sad today?







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