Thank you all for such a professional and cooperative attitude last week. The feedback from our guests really was all good and you will be getting your sheets back from the interviewers this week. I hope you found it interesting and useful....
We will be finishing up whatever loose ends there are for the Diversity Project this week. That includes video taping and discussing what your experiences have been. We will also talk about your upcoming assignment.
For the blog today, please discuss what you value most in your life...I will leave it to you to decide what that means. So, to be clear, DISCUSS does not mean write one sentence. It means, tell me what matters to you and why, who else you think has the same values, where you learned it from, and so on.
What I value the most in life is having my family with me to share every moment. As well as individuals who I have met along the way that I consider my family. I'm still learning how to solve issues that are thrown at me, and to not take everything personally. I learned to value family because my mother has always implemented that value. But, I never really cared until this year, mainly because I commenced to be open with people who care about me and I learned to value them and their time as well.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, I also value education and this scholarship. These are opportunities that were not offered to any of my family members, and I have the privilege to be part of it. Education allows me to be open minded and learn new concepts about society and my career. If I would have taken a different path, and not accepted this scholarship, then I would not have the opportunities I have today. I have learned a faster short cut to my career, I am able to help the community, earn money, and learn more about myself along the way.
What I value the most is friends and family, they have always been there for me when I needed them the most especially through my worse moments. I think people who are close to their family and friends that stuck around them and person life through thick and thin are very valuable, that is important to others. I learned that not everyone gonna be there for you but you find out who are the ones are willing to do anything for you. I also believe my education is something else I value if wasn't for this scholarship I think I would been lost in college not known to do with education and what I'm passionate about. I learn it's oh okay to break and get yourself together not be in a rush when life throws you curve balls they make you stronger person.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value the most in my life is having my daughter and becoming a mother. Being a mother is a privilege that not many people can have and wish that they did. Either because their body just can't sustain a baby or the government takes the baby away because they have determined that the person can't sustain the child's life and the child's life is in danger. It could be other circumstances but you get my point. I also believe that my daughter is a blessing because she has changed me in so many ways, physically and mentally. She made me a parent and what that means is that the world does not revolve around me anymore but around my daughter. It means that I have to make sacrifices for the sake of my daughter. My daughter also showed me what love truly is and that no matter how I look, what my social status is, or how much money I have, she will still love me no matter what. She also showed me what happiness is and that just spending quality time with her is all I need to be happy. She showed me to live, laugh, and love more. I used to hate the world for so much hatred, cruelty, and so many deaths of humans. I would wonder why bad things happened and didn't want to live in a world so cruel and at a point I didn't even want to have kids because I didn't want them to suffer here like I did, why bring them to suffer. When I felt her grow inside of me for 9 months all of that feeling went away and I thought to myself she is hope and faith because she didn't have to be cruel like the rest of the world and that she could be the one to bring light and kindness that the world needed. Every person that came in contact with my daughter would have a smile on their face because she was always so happy and glad to see them. She had this contagious beautiful energy around her, that when you were having a bad day she was the one who made it. I even thought wow I have this gorgeous baby and I'm not worthy to have such a wonderful child and at times thought that she should have been born to a different person because I couldn't give her what she deserved. That was my low self-esteem talking to me then. I wished I could buy her so many things and with time I realized that everything I wanted to give her was material-wise and that it is not necessary. It's nice to have material objects but the things that really mattered was what you can't buy. So now the way I see things is that everything happens for a reason good or bad. Life throws you adversities for you to learn a lesson and to make you stronger for the next obstacle that is put in your way. My other taught me most of my morals and values but I have also learned even more to what she has taught me. Everything that I am learning I will pass on to my daughter and I will try my best for her to stay that loving, happy, soul that she already is today at just 3 years of age, so when it comes time for her to be a mother she can do the same and bring wonderful people to this world like I have to make it a better place to be. I also felt that if I am not worthy of my daughter then I should make myself worthy of her so I changed up my bad habits to be a role model for her and to whom she can look up to. My values are to treat others the way you want to be treated, to be honest, have integrity, to help one another to be successful, have empathy, to share, and care for one another.I think any loving mother would have similar values as me because they want to see their kids happy and to have a life worth living so the day that they leave this earth they can go at ease and a proud mother who's sacrifices were worth it.
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ReplyDeleteI value people that I am in contact with, but the most valuable thing I ever have its my life. I am thankful for being here and exists in this world and I dont try to be selfish but I started to love myself more than anything else. I love the people close to me but I love myself most. I feel that I had experienced a lot thing and just because the fact I love myself I never tried to put myself down. Otherwise I wouldnt be here and I try to value every single moment in my life even if its bad or good. Everybody learn about their own experiences.
ReplyDeleteWhat i value the most is my parents,little brother and my daughter. Being able to be the first generation in college set a good example to my little brother. Being a mother help me become responsible n i learned how to be indepent. Having the support with my parents n them being together has help me alot. My values n the way i am i learned it from my freinds n family. That why i want to set a good example to my daughter. Learning new experiance everyday help you grow as a person
ReplyDeleteWhat matters most to me is doing my best. I don't have to be the best person doing it but as long as I did my best I always win. Failing is still good, in failure you learn. You may not learn how to do it the right way but you definitely learn how not to do it. This is how you become a master. An expert is someone who studies and understands theory and principle and may even be able to teach the concepts. But a master has first hand experience to share with experts. I want to be a master I want to make mistakes and learn from them. I want to be the best version of myself. That's what matters most to me.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value most in life is the opportunities I have gotten throughout the years. Even though my life lately has been a rollercoaster, I am thankful for the good moments. I have learned from my bad decisions and believe in second chances. Whenever a door closes for me I manage to find an open one. I never give up and I thank my parents for making me strong enough for the real life. Therefore, I value my family and friends as well. They have shaped me to the person I am today. But mostly I value my little sister Natalia. She is the main reason I stay strong. I don't want to ever fail her and I want her to always see me as role model.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value most in my life is the thing I valued the least which is my life/self worth. Ever since I was little I had fantasies of dying. It only got worse as I grew up. When I found out I had extreme bipolar depression in high school I valued my life even less. It also became an excuse for me and my self destructive behavior afterwards. I had already begun to self harm and I was using boys to try and feel better about myself. That I was worth the time and that I was attractive. It only damaged my view of myself and lowered my self worth because I could never feel good enough. I make friends easily but I have a hard time maintaining those friendships. I feel like people didn't really want to be around me after awhile so then I started jumping from group to group until I eventually ended up eating lunch alone. There was only ever one group of friends that would ask why I wasn't eating with them anymore and that I should start again. Besides that people would normally just let me go so then I felt I was unimportant to people. This year I finally had enough of what I was doing to myself and what I was allowing others to do to me. I began self reflecting a lot and realizing that I need to put value in myself and I need time to self reflect and understand what I want in life and what I want for myself. I learned this from a lot of strong women that entered my life. I just realized that no one is going to value you more than you value yourself and that I need to stop trying to find self worth in others because it only hurts me more. That I need to find it within myself so I can heal.
ReplyDeletethank you for sharing and so happy you are learning to love and heal yourself. It is fundamental.
Deletewhat I value most is time. Now a days it seems like nobody has enough time in their days. For a lot of people it seems like work, school, and extra circulars end up soaking all their time. A lot us of end up forgetting that we only live once in this world with the people that around us at this given moment. Since we forget we as people tend to focus on things like our next check, or that next homework assignment, or even the things we want to buy with our money. Life quickly becomes materialistic. When honestly life should be about living, and not selling your hours to your manager at work for $11.50 an hour, because our time is worth more than that. ( but we still gotta pay bills). For me time is the most valuable thing to me because it allows me to do what I want in this world and what I need to do in this world.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value the most in life is my family and my best friend. They always being there for me through thick and thin. They accepted me for who I am. They make me laugh when I’m sad, and they give me hope when I lose my self-esteem. They taught me to become who I am today. They rescued me when I was drowning into the darkness. They are my motivators. I also value happiness. I believe happiness lives within us. Life is not always perfect. There will always be some points in our life that we will experience sorrow and hopelessness. From my life perspective, happiness is not something we can plan in order to make it happen. We just need to learn to understand, be open-minded and enjoy our valuable moments with our love ones, it is a happiness. I believe happiness is the love and hope that makes us become stronger, and it is not something that happens instantly. My family and my best friend are my happiness. I always learn to love my life and appreciate what I have because there is always someone out there who wishes that had what I have. Lastly, I really value the great opportunity I’ve received coming to the America such as a good education, got accepted into the Price Scholarship Program, and many more.
ReplyDeleteThe most value that I have is my mother and then my faith. She always supports me and gives me feel safe that I feel I have some one that I can talk to and not be alone. In the first I love her and everything I do is because of her to make her happy. She makes me have a strong goal and fighting for what I want and she is some one that pushes me and cares a lot to achieve my goal. Also, my faith helps me to have the bright perspective of the word and know my direction better. Another value that I have is I am a healthy person and I can eat the healthy food that my mom make it most of the time. Another value is school, education, teacher, friends all of this value help me to understand better myself and make me happy and satisfied.
ReplyDeleteI value my family and the people I surround myself with. They are what make my experience everywhere I go. I think I definitely have changed because I associate myself with new people and have new experiences. I have surrounded myself with people that have common goals and/or people that have great things to offer. This does not mean I value other people less; however, these people do have a greater impact in developing the person I am today. My family, though, does have a greater significance because they are the people I care about the most. I take what is taught and I change it in a way that will make me a better person.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value the most is the opportunities that have been given to me through the years. Even thoe I have been going trough some ups and downs the opportunities given are appreciated and well taken because they help you in one way or the other. Another thing that I value the most is my family , family for me is everything they would be here for me in the good and the bad no matter what, as well as my friends especially one of them that I know that is with me even thoe she has her attitude she still cares for me and its proven. You know who I'm talking about Leslie :);)
ReplyDeleteWhat I value most in life is Food, family, best friend, happiness and love. I value food because it change my mood and i value it knowing that if I don't have food in my life I will die and not be able to achieve anything in life. My family is very important because I can be who ever I want around them and they are my home. My best friend is very important because she change my whole world and she doesn't even know it. She's always there to inspired me, catch me when I fall and encourage me to be the best person and always there for me. Happiness because I can do anything with happiness in me. Last but not least LOVE because love is strong and powerful. Love shape who I am today and I don't know what love will do to me in the future but what it has done I am the luckiest person. I'm so glad I have love in me, I can give all the love and be happy as long as others are happy. With love around the world the world will be better and with love in me I am a better person.
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What I value the most in life is the endless love I have for my family and the time I spend with them. Family is highly important to me and I would do about anything for them. I have five siblings and I want to spend every moment with them because we are all healthy and alive. I'm glad they were brought into my life because they bring happiness and joy into my life. They all contribute something unique to the family, and I just truly love them. They are all young and I want to show them the love I have for them, even if they don't appreciate it. This is why I also value the time I spent with each individual from my family. We never know when a family member is going to be taken from us, so I spent time with them every so often. Not just my family at home but also my family that lives miles away from me. Such as my grandpa, who was a father to me. I honestly don't know when he's going to pass away so I put some time in planning a vacation for us.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value the most is "family." Although we've become distant in the last couple of years, they've always been there for me through bad & good. Nothing compares to the generosity and support they've given me since I was a child. I'll always appreciate them.
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I value my family and friends in my life the most. When I first read the assigned blog post that was the first thing that popped in my mind. But after giving it a little thought I know that I love my family and friends but I question whether I show it. Showing affection has sort of been awkward for me lol. I overthink it when in reality I should let it flow freely. But in that vain, I think that I want to show more appreciation to my fam and friends. They're important because having positive people in your life is good for your spirit and your well being. And as corny as it sounds, you only live once. So it is important to value people while you can.
ReplyDeleteI value my heart and mind and the ones of those I love. I value my emotions, ideas and beliefs because they shape our decisions. Every action made brought me and the closest people in my life to this place and time. I value every my past, present but most importantly my future.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value the most in life is my family and my education. I wouldn't be here studying if it wasn't for all of the sacrifices that my mom made. I am the oldest and love my little siblings. I love spending time with my whole family and want to be there for their future as a positive role model. I value education because my mom has supported me in everything I do to succeed. She never had the chance to go to school and I want to finish what she started.
ReplyDeleteWhat I value the most in my life in my education. I say education because of all the people that have helped me reach this far in my life. My education wasn't easy, It took a war of people to help me where I am at right now. Without an education I wouldn't have met all my friends, professors, had I not have the many opportunities to network and feel like I was part o something great. Studying late nights and early mornings to get to where I want to be and thinking of my parents , siblings, of everyone that I owe for not to fail, education is key for me.
ReplyDeleteLately I've been losing sleep on this topic. Well, not exactly on this but on trying to hang in there. One of the main issues with me is that I don't know EXACTLY what I want to do with my life. I know what I would like to do, but that list is way too long for me to decide on a single thing, but the common theme in these things is that I want to be happy. I believe happiness is the spirit food that allows you to be your true, radiant self. Happiness for me, more specifically, means helping others. Whether this is smiling at a stranger in the streets, or helping someone cross the street, I receive immense amounts of exaltation when I'm helping someone.
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