Wednesday, January 09, 2008

During the first CCG meeting we took a personality test that assigned us a color based on our specific values, attitudes towards life and of course personality characeristics. I have taken numerous test such as these before and everytime I recieved a different result. I think I took two important life lessons from this CCG session. First, this session reinforced my belief that people are always changing and this is a constant fact about life. I can think back to the person I was four years ago, a freshman in high school. Now I feel as if that person is so very far away from who I am now. It is a little daunting to accept the fact that who we are now might not be who we are five years from now. But I also think it is important to understand so as life's chnges come we can grow, adapt and adopt greater meaning from all of our experiences. The second life lesson this session reinforced for me was the fact that as a people we need to be concious of the reality that we all percieve our world in different ways. How one person interprets a situation may be completely opposite to how another sees it. However, we are constantly at conflict with each other because we refuse to try ti understand things from anothers perspective. I think if more people tried to understand the different perspective in which this world is viewed than most of the conflict and toubles could be resolved because we gain sense of understanding.