Bicol University

College of Education
Daraga, Albay

Name: Infante, Abegail T.

Educ. 1
Activity 3: Individual Task

Looking in the mirror, I can see a big difference from who I am before to who I am now,
inside and out. 

I always ask myself every year, did I make a lot of mistake during the past few years?
Did I trouble someone? Or did I hurt someone’s feelings? Since when I was a kid, I always
imagine what others might feel the way I talk and interact with them. I inherited from my mother
the trait of being empathetic. I think that is one of the qualities I have as a person. When I was a
kid, I used to play with my neighbors and even my classmates and I always ask them if how are
they, if I hurt them in a way that I didn’t notice earlier. I always try to understand what they feel
thinking that I will be better towards them be sensitive enough.

And I think the other quality that I have that I inherited from my father is being tough.
People admired me for that. They always told me ever since when I was a kid. I have known
that my father was a tough one ever since. I think me being tough is kind of related to my first
trait. I was born tough until I grow up, I always been like this. I can tolerate myself from crying,
that I am determined even though I face difficulties along the way. I told people I’m a strong
person even if it’s evident that I am struggling too, and I know we all are. Sometimes, being born
tough is better and that does how will help us to adapt to the changing environment.

Growing up being sensitive and tough with people and places around me, made me
nurture my nature. Before, I always ask them if I ever troubled or hurt them, but now it made me
think that maybe I should be careful with my words. Sometimes, for me to understand their
feelings is not to ask repeatedly. My mother taught me that sometimes, asking again and again
won’t make them feel better. Just being there on their side and listening to their cries will make
you understand how they feel. And I learned that in that way, it really is. As time and inevitable
circumstances challenged me, I got tougher. My perspective in life became clearer. The
changing environment made me realized that as I walk on empty and dark road, my faith to
myself that “I can make it” become stronger. It doesn’t matter that we always see or encounter
dark times in our lives. At the end of that road, we won’t see any streetlights or lamp posts at all.
Our own self is the light, we are the light. It’s a matter of perspective on how we are going to get
tougher to face our problems.

The importance of nature and nurture influence to my holistic development is making me

who I am now. Without the other one, we won’t be able to call it a holistic development because
it would be incomplete. For me, one these two cannot stand alone considering that both nature
and nurture work together to build and transform a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly.