Answer the follow prompt in a (1pg.) response. Give an emphasis on details in your description.
A strong sense of identity generally produces autonomy, a healthy ability to shape our own life and actions. In turn, acting responsibly and shaping our own affairs brings about a more secure sense of identity and autonomy reinforce each other.
Making Choices with Consequences
Making choices that have consequences- with the realization that you wil have to live ith those consequences, both positive
and negative-is the stuff of autonomy. Robert Frost expressed such choices symbolically in his poem " The Road Not Taken"
Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And Sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To whom where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn hem really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two Roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
When we exercise autonomy, we go ahead and make a choice, knowing that we cannot necessarily take it back, nor can we have it both ways. We might feel terribly pressured to make a choice that everyone else approves of. We may want to watch others to see what they do and imitate them. But if we are autonomous, we make the choice according to our best understanding of things, and let the approval or diasapproval of others fall wher it may.
Not relying on the approval of others does not mean that an autonomous person is insensitive to the needs, wishes, or opinions of other people; a mature person naturally takes others into account in decision making. In this sense, autonomy is different from independence, a state of relying on ourselves, not on others, to fulfill our needs or to give insight. The autonomous person is able to rely on others and to have a sense of give-and take- with them. Autonomy includes interdependence, that delicate and healthy blend of independence and dependence.
Most people will take what they have been instilled with as a source of a foundation. We all want to do well. Gaining independence is very important in our own growth. We all have our good days and our bad days. It is through are experiences that we find ourselves.
To be interdependant means to function well on our own while realizing our need for others and their need for us.
q Journal Entry: (50 pts)
Name an incident in your life in which you made a decision that had a significant consequence.
print/e-mail/post by 11:59 PM on due date assigned.
A strong sense of identity generally produces autonomy, a healthy ability to shape our own life and actions. In turn, acting responsibly and shaping our own affairs brings about a more secure sense of identity and autonomy reinforce each other.
Making Choices with Consequences
Making choices that have consequences- with the realization that you wil have to live ith those consequences, both positive
and negative-is the stuff of autonomy. Robert Frost expressed such choices symbolically in his poem " The Road Not Taken"
Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And Sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To whom where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn hem really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two Roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
When we exercise autonomy, we go ahead and make a choice, knowing that we cannot necessarily take it back, nor can we have it both ways. We might feel terribly pressured to make a choice that everyone else approves of. We may want to watch others to see what they do and imitate them. But if we are autonomous, we make the choice according to our best understanding of things, and let the approval or diasapproval of others fall wher it may.
Not relying on the approval of others does not mean that an autonomous person is insensitive to the needs, wishes, or opinions of other people; a mature person naturally takes others into account in decision making. In this sense, autonomy is different from independence, a state of relying on ourselves, not on others, to fulfill our needs or to give insight. The autonomous person is able to rely on others and to have a sense of give-and take- with them. Autonomy includes interdependence, that delicate and healthy blend of independence and dependence.
Most people will take what they have been instilled with as a source of a foundation. We all want to do well. Gaining independence is very important in our own growth. We all have our good days and our bad days. It is through are experiences that we find ourselves.
To be interdependant means to function well on our own while realizing our need for others and their need for us.
q Journal Entry: (50 pts)
Name an incident in your life in which you made a decision that had a significant consequence.
print/e-mail/post by 11:59 PM on due date assigned.