Alysa Mae B.

Baytan

Poblacion, Rapu-Rapu, Albay

May 16, 2001

One bad chapter doesn’t mean the story is over.

Strong, Brave and Soft hearted

Parenting is a tough road, it’s worth it to watch our little girl grow into amazing person. Even if I
feel like I’m struggling through this parenting journey, I am pretty sure that I’m strong enough to face
life’s challenges.

Being a mom requires a bravery that you probably didn’t know you had. Just making it through
birth takes bravery. But even after birth I need to be brave as I kiss my kid’s boo-boos. Brave as I raise
her to be a woman, I always knew she would be.

I as a soft-hearted person I always choose to forgive despite of being taken advantage of. It is an
attribute seen as a weakness and although it may seem absurd, soft-hearted people will still choose to
do it. Not because they were not hurt, but because they believe that forgiveness is not something you
do for others, but it is something you do for yourself.
Activity 1
Do You Know Yourself
1. How would you characterize yourself?
 The first characteristic that comes in my mind that I have is being multitasker. I can deal
with more than one task at the same time. I managed my time efficiently and
multitasked. Just like now I can do parenting while studying. Some says it was really
hard. Yes, it is. But if you love and you have passion on what you are doing everything
will be easy.
2. What makes you stand out from, the rest? What makes yourself special?
 I am different from other selves for I stand above my own experience for I am strong
and dependable. My experiences in life makes me who I am for today, and those
experiences differs from what the others have. I am continuously polishing the gems
that I have been. Through hard work and pressure, I am form to be a shinning diamond
upon the crowd.
3. How has yourself transformed itself?
 In just one snap my old self turned into a new version of me “Alysa Pro Max” since when
I gave birth to my precious daughter Jae. She decorated and changed my whole life and
made it even better.
4. How is yourself connected to your body?
 The self or the consciousness drives the body, the body is like a vessel where
consciousness or soul resides.
5. How is yourself related to other selves?
 For me, the growth and development of every human being involves interaction with
other selves or the society.
6. What will happen to yourself after you dies?
 Honestly, I do not know. Some says we are born to die and many of us wonder what
happens after death. Based on the internet when we die our spirit and body separate.
Even though our body dies, our spirit which is who we are lives on.

 Were you able to answer the questions above with ease? Why? Which questions did you find
easiest to answer? Which one are difficult? Why?
 When I read those questions, it brings a big question mark in my mind. I suddenly
thought how deeply o know myself or do I really know myself. For me the most difficult
question is the last one (What will happen to yourself after you dies?) because we do
not really know what will happen next. No one can tell me what will happen after I die,
except from the fact that our body will decompose but to our inner self? I do not know.
Activity 2
Comprehensively Explain the following:

A.

1. what are the benefits of giving and receiving feedback?

 Receiving feedback from others helps people become more self-aware of both their
strengths and the areas they need to work on, as well as how others perceive them. And
this gives people the opportunity to use this information towards their own personal
growth.
 Giving feedback people get clear about the impact of their behavior and what is
expected of them. Giving effective feedback is a respectful way to help another person
succeed. (If you can’t discuss it, you can’t improve it.) Feedback is the most powerful
tool available to shape another’s behavior; the best way to do this is to catch people
doing something right and then reinforce it.
2. Which winning color are you? Why?
 Blue, I feel open and sharing to everyone I feel comfortable with. I can be so transparent
for I show my feelings easily, I also like to give advices to my friends about their feelings
or how they feel. I sometimes give my life experience as an example to those who I give
advices.
3. What can winning colors be used for?
 Winning colors can be used to guide yourself for who you really are, it can help you
develop your personality and characteristic. To sum it up in can help you for you to be
able to develop your true self. Specifically, it can used to:
 Improve understanding of how to cooperate and communicate with others.
 Provide clues for motivation.
 Clarify learning styles.
 Offer insight to conflict resolution style.
 Uncover essential aspects of communication.

B.

1. Socrates – according to him, all of people needs to know our own selves. He also stated that
every man is compose of two separate part which is the body and the soul.
2. Plato – according to Plato, that every man has a perfect self, but he tends to forgot most of what
he had. By doing something good or contemplation he regains knowledge and perfection.
3. Augustine – same with the first two philosophers Augustine also believes that the self is
composed of body and soul, but he infused it with ideals of Christianity.
4. Descartes – he believes that self is composed of the body and the mind, he claims that there is
so much we need to doubt. The only thing we cannot doubt is the very existence of ourself.
5. Hume – for Hume the central idea of his philosophy is “to see is to believe”. David Hume
considers the self only as a bundle of experiences.
 6. Kant – for Immanuel Kant man is the only creature who governs and directs himself and his
action.
7. Ryle – for Ryle what truly matters is behavior that person in his day to day life comprises the
self.
8. Merleau-Ponty – for him he considered the body and the mind as the two components of
ourself. For him the body and the mind are intertwined and that they cannot be separated from
one another.

The Self for me- My ideas about self is just like most of the philosophers, as Christian Catholic I believe
that the self is composed of the body and the soul. The body is a vessel driven by the soul or
consciousness. Also, the body and the soul can never be intertwined until death.

C.

Id
I wanted to buy those Super Ego
cool gadgets right
Dont buy for I don't
now, and take money
have enough money
from my parents
wallet.

Ego
Maybe I can buy
it, but not now. I
can start saving
for the gadgets I
wanted.