Know your audience

         I have found that I can relate to a lot of the people in this class through this assignment.  I read a lot of the posts and there were some ones I really liked. One of the things I think that’s great about this is if it was just a normal class a lot of this stuff we would have never known about each other.  I mean a lot of the questions were really personal.  Some of them had religious aspects and others were just about life in general.  I mean I just ate s’mores and it was really good.  No one cares but my point is the great thing is everyone has a chance to respond to one another.  Additionally the normal class room usually divides into clicks and no one really gets to know one another outside of their little group they always go to for assignments.  Anyways though I asked, “If you can be any superhero who would you be and why?” Some people went for the super powerful dominant ones and others were more modest.  I don’t know what I was expecting but I can relate to the guys who chose iron man and guys like that.  If I got to choose though I would be captain America all the way.  I think that says a lot about me because I usually generalize myself as a caring person, and not being skinny would be great.  So just choosing a superhero really shows your personality I think.  I mean people that commented I assume that are overwhelmed by stress went for heroes that can do a lot of things at once.   I really liked this assignment; it was really laid back and outside the box.  Moreover it got us to know each other in an unique way.    

I believe in an after life

I believe in an afterlife for several reasons.  For one this world is too complicated and everything can’t be based off theory and science in my opinion.    I don’t know maybe it’s that I have cognitive biases in place, which prevents me from thinking otherwise.  Although I'm glad I believe in an afterlife because it gives me the joy of thinking I'll get to spend eternity with friends and loved ones that have died.  I would hate to think that this life is all I have because it's so hard sometimes.  Furthermore some of the reasons I believe in an afterlife is because one the world is too crazy.  It revolves around the sun and there are so many things that are in place that I don’t think could have just popped out of nowhere by random.  I mean I think if the big bang theory was true and if humans evolved from monkeys the missing link of the Sasquatch would be found by now.  This might look narcissistic and some of these topics are often covered and looked at so I apologize if I offended anyone.    I know people have their own beliefs and I respect that. Just thought I would record my own thoughts in this free write. I’m going to leave it at that.

INFJ Typology and Writing

Going into this test I thought I would get something like this honestly.  Several of the questions dealt with how you think about people and their feelings.  I’m more of a person who cares about other people and their feelings so I seriously thought consoling would show up as a career choice and sure enough it did. I will talk a little about this in the third paragraph.

For the test I got INFJ.  The first letter says I have a moderate liking to be more introverted then extroverted.  I have always called my self somewhere in between introverted and extroverted so I would agree with this statement.  I think as a writer this might have affected me because I like to keep to myself more I suppose.  So I think it has caused me to have a more bland voice if you will in my writing with little personality.  Although I don’t really know since once I get to know people I usually open up and become a lot more extroverted. 

The N says I’m moderately more intuitive then sensing.  I would have to kind of disagree with this.  I prefer to know where formulas come from like in algebra and so forth.  I don’t like believing things with out much evidence either.  It’s tough for me to just believe things sometimes.  So I can be kind of a skeptic I think.  If I feel like there is a cognitive bias in the way I usually notice such things.  Although the definition of intuition says I’m kind of a good guesser. If you read the second to last sentence in the first paragraph there is evidence right there.  So for college I think it would be a good idea to try to remember to show a lot of evidence instead of intuition I might be using. 

The F says I moderately care more about feelings rather then thinking.  Don’t get me wrong I think I can be kind of emotional sometimes although I don’t think I’m moderately more of a feeling person.  If I’m going from this standpoint that I’m more emotional though I would say I should probably try to write more in a logical and meaningful way then based so much on my feelings.

The J says I slightly judge people more then perceive them. To improve my writing based on this I could just not try to characterize people for certain things when I don’t really know much about them.

With all that said I think this test was pretty interesting.  I think it helped me identify some things that I could work on, and apply those things.

Life is so wierd

        Everything we are, everything we do where did it start?  The moments growing up seem so weird.  I can almost remember it seemed like a dream.  I might not remember everything growing up but when I first started living and breathing it was so .  There's those little weird insignificant things I remember.  For example there was this hill we drove down and I remember it taking my breath away.  I didn't know how to communicate then I'm sure but it really scared me.  Anyways though the idea of growing up is so weird and sad in my opinion. Maybe it's that I just graduated high school that I'm feeling so sentimental but these are my thoughts. 
       Growing up we always think it's all about us, until finally we get to the point when we realize there's more to it then us.  Once we get to that point we become a lot happier I think.   We learn how to make others happy and love one another instead of just doing everything for ourselves.  Those moments when we see joy in a close friends eyes is often the most satisfying.