Personal Narrative: My Biased Universal Truth

It's a Friday afternoon, I plan to go to Great Wolf Lodge in an hour with my church. I see one of my friends so he says to his mom “ Hey, that's my friend” I said “Crap” So I go inside to sign in to go and see my friends just sitting in a corner on a big sofa. We are listening to music and just talking then a green bus comes.

It is true in life that everything happens for a reason. It is also true to say that sometimes it is all about being in the right place, at the right time. There was never a more prominent example of this than a traumatic summers evening, only a few years ago.

Every paper, no matter how well written needs to be revised and edited as time goes on. In some ways, life is similar. We all go through changes that influence us and shape the direction we are headed. Some of these changes come from our own prerogative while others are inspired by friends and family members. I know that my worldview has gone through this revision process. Even looking back to freshman year I had many of the same ideals, same focuses on values and hard work, but over time they have come to manifest themselves in different ways. For instance, I am much more willing to share my beliefs and opinions on controversial issues. This developed as I came to realize my ideas are worth arguing for and I gained a knowledge of

Of course the norm for me is that of any citizen living in zone three.

Everyone on earth is defined by their core beliefs. It’s what makes us all individuals, what separates us from the others. It wasn’t until I was talking with my friend Sean in 8th grade that I started to realize that one of my core beliefs, something I was taught growing up, may not be my own belief.

It was a Saturday morning and I woke up earlier than usual. It was 8:00 and I normally wake up

Too many Americans believe in the myth of rugged individualism and the self made man because they are uneducated on just how dependant our country’s founders actually were. Without the assistance of indentured servants, slaves, and the trade goods of other countries, I believe America as we know it would not exist. Being honest, I never actually considered just how un-independent Americans really are. As a child, I was told many times that achieving success consists of one’s own ability. My father in his earlier years proclaimed how he would be a millionaire, and boasted how he would do it on his own. Later he realized that God intended and will always intend for people to help one another. My father is a completely different man today and uses his past as a testimony that there is no such thing as self made. It is unnatural for people to be loners and self dependant without the assistance of others. At no time in history has a person ever been so omnipotent that they could carry on without the assistance of other humans. In fact, without

When I was 12 years old, and my grade wasn’t promising. My parents all blame me, but never encourage me to bring it back up, so for a year my grade never changed. During that year my mom treat me like I wasn't her son. Me and my mom fight almost every day. The next year, everything was the same. My grade was still on the ground, until the next semester my friend encourage me and helped me to bring my grades up. They tried to help me and try to convince me to compete with them so I can bring my grades up faster. When I was 7 years old, there was a bully back in China who was in 6 grade. He beat up first, second, and third graders. I told my parents so they can do something about it, but they thought I was talking about a third grader, so they say to deal with the problem myself. For a year he was still bullying people, so my friend courage me to go with them so that we can tell the teacher. The teacher didn't do anything about it, some and my friend brought bats and beat him up. Some of my friend got hurt pretty bad, but we got him into the hospital, and after that he stopped bullying people.

Do you have a personal bias? When I was first told that I had had to write an essay about my personal essay, I didn’t believe I had a bias. Once I looked at what a bias was and a few examples, I figured out I did have a bias. Everyone in this world has a bias against a certain group of people or an idea. Wheather it is against an ethnic group, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

I haven’t seen the movie “Justified”. But, if you like Bourbon, then you need to go to the basement tavern in the Miller House in Owensboro. They have fabulous bands as well. Check it out online. I have a cat (MAX) and have many for years. This is my last go around…..no matter how my girls flutter their eyes. He is left from my youngest daughter’s attempt of starting her first business, a cattery raising Maine Coon cats, to pay for her college. Yep, she is creative and a tad lazy; I guess that makes me a tad crazy for agreeing.

Time passed as I remained in that kitchen chair. Until the doorbell broke me out of my continuous, horrific train of thoughts, that is.

This is my first time taking a class where I get to read, analyze and go deep in learning about other people worldviews. After reading and learning about the different worldviews as well the testing worldviews, specifically about the “practical test”, has helped me to strength my personal worldview. As a Christian, I believe I can live my worldview no matter how the rest of the world is living theirs. Knowing what I stand for and believe in, has helped me not to allow to compromise my personal commitment to my worldview. Recently, I was invited to a very prestige event by a male friend, the reason he asked me to go with him is because his girlfriend was not able to go. When I asked him if he told his girlfriend about inviting me to the event

There’s nothing like summer to make you realize the tediousness of life. You go every day of school waiting for it to be over, just for summer to start up and start the whole cycle all over again. By the time May came around, I wanted to get away from everything. I only hung out with my friends two times the whole summer. Hell, even that surprised me.

This past year has enabled me to practice my faith in an more effective manner. Over the course of time, my informed conscience was enhanced to enable me to make better and more beneficial choices. When we read teachings from the Bible or other sources, they allowed us to examine an aspect of life from a different angle. The parables we read and the Gospels we read and analyzed in class allowed us to relate them to daily life. Our multiple projects helped us go deeper into a particular topic instead of a building on a vague idea. For example, we studied our particular saints and Catholic Social Teachings. These helped us focus on one instead of all of them. In addition, we learned how to become better followers of God and how to think, speak,

Throughout your life, has anyone ever done something that had caused you to feel differently about that person? Or have you judged someone because of their actions and continued to believe that all people of the specific group do the same? As much as we hate to admit it, we have all been prejudice toward a certain group of people for different reasons. Whatever it may be, we may have experienced something that has caused us to feel a certain way about someone and their group. In the next few paragraphs, I will share an experience that has impacted me and the way I have felt toward a certain group.