Oral Communications Blog Post 3

For our blog post, we were to create and share a list of 5 things that we are most proud about yourself. Unfortunately, my list is much shorter.

~Delilah, my 7 year old

~Isabel, my 2 year old

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I was always told that the only things in life I was any good at was making cute and clever babies, and being kind. Being kind, however, is nothing to be proud of; if anything, it denotes to most of my peers that I’m a pushover, and easily taken advantage of.

Next, we were asked to create a list of 5 things that we believe in, and provide a paragraph to explain these things.

~I believe that everything we need to be healthy is in the world around us, whether it’s in a cup of tea, or massage therapist, or even a counselor.

~I believe in the innocence of my children.

~I believe that, deep down, all people are good in some way.

~I believe that nothing will make you happier than a good book or playing in the dirt.

~I believe that compassion is shared, and spread with a smile.

My beliefs are based mostly in naiveté, and will probably be mocked by most. However, I think that the world really is a good place, somehow, and we take everyone and everything for granted. If we could go back and treasure the human heart, instead of hardening them with paranoia, then our health, as a society, would improve. Our health, individually, would improve if we would just trust our intuition, and accepted that we really are what we eat.

My picture of self-concept isn’t one that I’d like to share. At all. But, in the spirit of the assignment, I can do my best. To look at myself, I would see a mother, round with excess from carrying life, and losing it. I would see a woman who carries the weight of her home in every silver hair that peeks out from the chestnut curls that are so haphazardly pinned down. My self-concept is of someone who wants to heal the world, if only she could hold it in her hands, and smile down upon it.