Personally, for me, this article holds many truths. My high school psychology teacher had the class write a six-paragraph memoir. I remember vividly the comment he wrote me. It was about how reading my memoir he never thought that I could have gone through as much and still posses my outgoing and bubbly personality. For many people what I went through would have broken them down.
We all hold our own truths. We never really think of how other people live. I know for me that sometimes I forget other people might have it worse. It always bugs me when someone tells me that people are starving in Africa like that’s supposed to make my problems any easier. I feel horribly for the people that have it worse than I do, but it really doesn’t change how I feel in the present. This may seem like a selfish point of view, but I don’t try to come off as selfish. I’m merely trying to state that what you go through is your reality. Our way of empathizing with people is by using our personal experiences. For me it’s easy to understand how it feels to have divorced parents because my parents have been divorced for a large portion of my life, while it’s hard for me to imagine living in a home with both parents.
As a child we’re also taught what to believe. Growing up in a heavily Asian populated town my views during my elementary school years were those of traditionally Asian views. It was through school that I started to experience the point of views of other people and ethnicities. During high school I molded my own thoughts and now I see more than what I grew up believing. Some of what I grew up believing I see is completely wrong, and I like to believe that I am now more open-minded and well adjusted to seeing things without immediately saying it’s wrong. Through this I have decided what I want to believe as truth and what is just an old outdated belief.
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