Through my prep work, I realized that my personal values were; to have an exciting life, a life filled with pleasure, a life filled with wisdom, to be ambitious, and to always be broadminded. When analyzing my values, I realized that all of them were striving towards one overarching value, to have an exciting life. This value is so important to me because growing up, I didn’t like living. I grew up in a family that was very selectively religious. It was perfectly okay that my male family members would gather around and watch the explicit versions of Jerry Springer, but being gay gave you an express ticket to hell. Because of this theory, throughout my childhood I had incredibly intense dreams about going to hell; so much so that I was …show more content…
What is important to me, is living the life I want to live.
The life I want to live begins with having an exciting life. I want to have many different experiences, with many different types of people. Reconciling this value with my childhood, I realize that a major part of this is out of rebellion of my mother who tried to shield me from both experiences and people she deemed inappropriate. This rebellion really comes from me not wanting the type of life she leads. I strive to be as inclusive as possible, which is why being broadminded is such an important value to me. I have seen and felt the effects of being in a closed-minded environment and I want to make sure that I am not a contributor to that environment. This leads to the importance of being an intellectual as well. I realize that I will sometimes be closed-minded no matter how great my intentions are, but that I need to always question what lead me to being closed-minded to that subject, and how I can overcome that mindset.
Overall, my values are really focused on enjoying life in a way that does not contribute to the suffering of others. I know that this is a somewhat impossible goal in my lifetime, so I try to focus on how to be as inclusive as I can be in my immediate environment. My values are a great source of pride for me as I believe I am helping to contribute something great to this world. While my values are in conflict with my mother’s, that doesn’t
I believe that a value is something that is important to an individual and the values that I believe in play a very important role in my life. My values are greatly influenced by my family. My values include family, health, being respectful and non-judgmental. I also value my daughter, my friends and being honest. I believe that a value is something that you should assign love and
By being able to identify my own values and beliefs is an important aspect of my continual personal growth. I use them to guide my actions and behaviours throughout my life as well as helping form attitudes towards different things. Some are rally core to me and they define who I am, whilst others change in importance dependant on my needs at any given time.
The concept of values that pertain to a family unit is, in some respects, is just that: a concept. These values are largely inherent, understood on an emotional level, unspoken and passed down through the generations based on personal experience. So, my main values are of unity, determination, collectively working, sharing responsibility and
Values are where my father had the most influence in my adolescent years. The one that he placed above all others were family values. He would tell me that having a happy family life was one of the most important things that a man could have. He was also a man that didn’t practice what he preached. He would always tell us to mind what our teachers said in school and never lie to anyone and not take something that didn’t belong to us. I remember one time I took a candy bar from a store when I went shopping with my mother. I felt so guilty that after we returned home I went to my father and gave him the candy bar and told him what I did. My dad would just look at me and said,” Son I’m disappointed in you, I have taught
– My personal values will have to be respecting others, education, and helping and caring for others. The person(s) who I feel influenced me the most in forming my values is my parents and my grandmother. They influenced me because growing up they always preach about treating others with respect even if I feel like they don’t deserved it. They also made sure that education was a priority and not an option. For as helping and caring for others I always saw them helping when they didn’t necessary didn’t have too and not one complain or threw it in the person face. The value that lead me into social work is helping and caring for others wanting to see them do better and make better decision in life.
Values relate to our personal principles, morals, and ideals—that is, what we consider to be important.Each person is unique, with their own personal values and beliefs shaped by a number of factors that include culture, religion, and personal experiences.We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits.
Values are standards and principals by which we live our lives. These standards are many and often depend on people`s background e.g. Culture, class, religion, gender, age. Values are extremely individual attitudes that direct people`s responses to the world around them. Amongst some of the values I live my life by and respect are privacy allowing me to have space to myself and respecting the fact that others may desire privacy, to be safe and also allowing others the same, having self respect, being trustworthy, being non judgmental, being anti discriminatory, respect life and faith, value freedom and equality, value choice and others points of view. I have learned to live my life this way from my parents and their families. The schools
Another personal value of mine is promoting equality. I mentioned in the previous paragraph that certain groups of people have been oppressed in our society, thus I believe everyone should be treated equally. Women most certainly have, but I have also seen how certain ethnic groups in our society are continually oppressed against. I believe that all people should be treated the same. It does not matter what color skin you have, what religion group you belong to, or what sexual preference you have, we all bleed the same blood. Living in a low-income area in Saint Paul, I have seen first-hand how Asian Americans and African Americans are treated differently. My mother has always taught my sister and I to try and treat everyone with the same respect we would expect to receive; therefore, this personal value correlates well to the cultural competence and social diversity mentioned in the NASW Code of Ethics.
In Howards End we see the outer and inner worlds – the prose and the passion, disconnected, but still existing within the same space. Although the material Wilcoxs’ and cerebral Schlegels seemingly come from different worlds, their alignment is ultimately a matter of personal connection. Yet, just about sixty years prior in Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life we see the same two worlds existing in separate spaces entirely – prose in the waking life, poetry within Cecily’s dreams. One explanation for this is that of Konstantin Askakov, in his introduction to Pavlova’s novella. For him, the prose represents the “outer,” frivolous emptiness of everyday high society; the poetry, the voice of Cecily’s “soul.” Cecily’s dreams then represent an inner
My values are very important to me, and family and friends are very important. Without them, we would not
As human beings, we all have our own values, beliefs, and attitudes. These things develop over the course of our lifetime and at any point can change based on an experience that we may have. Our family, friends, community and the experiences we have had all contribute to our sense of who we are and how we view the world.
My personal values help guide me to distinguish what is right and wrong, this helps me in everyday life decision making along with taking action. The values I have chosen and hold closest to my core include integrity, responsibility, concern for others, and honesty. I chose these values because I feel that they are the most important in my life, and they relate well to the topic of child abuse. Integrity is the quality of being honest with strong morals. This is one of the most honorable values to have because not many people possess this trait.
My personal values act as a basis for determining right and wrong in my daily life. My life, my parents, my husband and my children have all played valuable roles in the development of my core values. The following is an ever changing personal ethics creed, that I plan on using to help guide me in my endeavors.
When raising a child one is taught values by their families that they feel are important for their child to have. I believe that family values consist of certain actions and qualities that are important to a family to uphold. Values that are important in my family are honesty, trust and to have respect for others. Each of these values is equally important in my family. They played a big role into making me the person I am now.
These are usually a mix of family values and social-cultural values, together with our own individual ones, according to our experiences.