This I Believe

·         I believe I am a good mother

·         I believe I am a good wife

·         I believe I am a hard worker

·         I believe I am a good daughter

·         I believe I deserve happiness

·         I believe I will have another child

·         I believe I will get into nursing school next semester

·         I believe I will make a good nurse

·         I believe I am hungry

·         I believe in peace

·         I believe in something

·         I believe in family

·         I believe in loyalty

·         I believe laughter has healing powers

·         I believe I believe

·         I believe in a power greater than myself

·         I believe I have hazel eyes

·         I believe in myself

·         I believe I can do better

·         I believe I am strong

·         I believe I am resilient

·         I believe I have a good sense of humor

·         I believe I can improve myself

·         I believe I will have lunch soon

·         I believe I am cold

·         I believe I have class tonight

·         I believe there is more to life

·         I believe I need a vacation

·         I believe this is my only day off this week and an I need to get my homework done

·         I believe one of my head lights is out

·         I believe in tolerating differences

·         I believe I am running out of thoughts and I believe statements

·         I believe my ten minutes is up

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    Ok, freewrite about one of these statements:  

      I believe in tolerance, tolerating differences. As much progress as we have made as a country and worldwide with tolerance, we seem to have at the same time digressed. Intolerance is seen in children who don’t really even know any better but are products of their environment. Bullying is a big problems in schools, even in grade school. It is heart breaking to hear stories of young children, like 5 or 6 that are getting teased and bullied for being different or for reason at all. I believe that the world had failed to move forward with tolerance. There seems to be more hatred in this world with different organizations that are intentionally killing others because they are different and don’t believe the same things. I find it hypocritical that people kill in the name of their God yet their god and their teachings don’t condone such things. I don’t understand why people can’t just accept that other people are different. It makes no sense to me that people kill over differences. I think the media makes it so much worse and as great things like Facebook are, I think social media is just as much a curse. The internet and media in general give people so much more access and information. I believe that there will be another world war eventually. There are too many countries and parts of the world that are fighting with others or are in civil war. I just don’t understand why it has to be (this way).   

     

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Typology and writing

So I took the Jung Typology Test as part of an assignment and was somewhat surprised by the results. I was not too surprised to see that I scored rather high on the introvert or feeling. I was surprised by the intuitive score. I would not have expected it to be that low. While I am analytical I also am very in touch with my feelings and listen to my gut. The other result I was very surprised about was the score one for judging and perceiving.

I don't feel like this test compared to how I see myself as a writer. I actually tend to be more of an extrovert in my writing. I think this comes from the freewriting I do and the fact that writing can be somewhat liberating. Writing is a medium that allows the writer to go wherever they want and do whatever they do. As far as the intuitive aspect I am someone who is very analytical but at the same time I very much listen to my gut. I am someone who at times even struggles with these two aspects when making decisions. I would have to say overall I feel like I am more of a 50/50 feeling vs. thinking type of person. I am not really sure how to apply this result to myself as a writer or student. When it comes to judging over perceiving I am not sure how this to apply this as a writer. Maybe these are some of the things that I can learn in this class. In terms of this test overall I really don’t think I am going to learn much about myself as a writer but as I said maybe these are things that I can learn.