Saturday, September 08, 2007

hello

OMG. I can't believe how lazy I've been. I was so excited and eager to post my response to a pretty interesting question my lecturer gave a couple of weeks back but I never found e time or energy to do it and now it's not so exciting anymore. :( but oh well, I shall just copy and paste it below since I'm already in blogger.

Question: "We will think and talk like the person we listen to the most"-Do you think this is true? Give examples.

 Response: We are all the person we are because of those around us. We allow ourselves to be influenced and that can take place anywhere - at home, in school, at work, among our friends, among our loved ones, etc. Nothing much of who we are is actually "original" because almost everything that makes the person we are are learnt and caught during the course of our lives.

I would say that we are like "lego". We pick the different colours and shapes to build the very "lego structure" that the world recognizes us as. The way we talk and think can be moulded to the extent of which we allow it to. Therefore, the world works in such a way where everyone learns from everyone else but the underlying difference which marks us the unique way we are is our maturity, creativity and discipline. I sound like I'm holding a seminar but I think what I say makes sense!(haha). We are all creative and want to be that "somebody" we've always dreamt ourselves to be. Above that lies maturity where we are able to discern the best for ourselves and that includes the way we conduct our lives and what we want to achieve and what we want to do in life. Then comes the crucial factor that we all struggle with - discipline. Whether we can be who we've dreamt ourselves to be depends largely on this. I believe that who we allow ourselves to listen to most is nothing but a matter of choice and since we've made that choice to allow that individual to step into the innermost circle of our lives where he/she is tagged as the person we "listen to most", we have already subjected ourselves to be heavily influenced by that him or her in our thoughts and the way we speak.

A simple example would be to look at any group of friends out there in the streets and if they are a really close bunch, you would notice that their mannerisms, behaviour, speech and the things they enjoy doing would be very much alike, e.g. Either all or none will smoke.


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YAY! Finally got my results and I can't wait to graduate! one last semester! WOOHOO. anw, very random but those who know what i'm talking about will probably understand. THE STANDARDS ARE DROPPING! HAHAHA.

*kevin thanks God, the Almighty that he was led to make e right choice*



Posted by kevin. at 2:33 am