I AM Activity
This is my I AM activity. It explains who I believe myself to be versus who I am to other people.
I AM
Isabel Blaney
I am loud. I am anxious. I am funny. I am compassionate. I am girly. I am kind. I am theatrical. I am an animal lover. I am easy to anger. I am easily afraid. I am loving. To become a hard working and easy going person surrounded by love and peace I will work on switching my anxiety medication, engaging in more self care, spending more time with those who I love, visiting my best friends grave more often, and loving everyone as much as they love me. I need to realize that not everything is as serious as my mind convinces myself it is and I need to live life a little more full than I currently am. I am very quick to anger so instead of immediately saying things I regret I have decided to count to 20 in my head before responding to something that has hurt me.
Analysis And Reflection:
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What surprised me was that all of the answers I received were very similar. I had my mom, my boyfriend, my friend, and my friend’s brother who I have met twice answer these questions. Something that shocked me was that the adjectives from someone who gave birth to me all the way to someone I have met twice described me in the same ways. Because of this I do not necessarily believe I have a presenting self. I have always been an open book. If you ask me something I will tell you. Sometimes I will tell you even if you did not ask. I believe my perceived self is my presenting self. I am who I am without apology. I have trouble being someone else. Because of this I believe all my relationships are on a depth level. I will even tell who I am sitting next to in class about me. I am who I am and there is no changing that. After severe bullying as a child I realized that I do not care about people’s impressions of me. Those who love me will love me and those who don’t I will not think about. Adjectives everyone used were: strong, sarcastic, funny, emotional, dramatic, talkative, and creative. Talkative, funny, and sarcastic were the open adjectives they used and the rest were very blind.
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I was not surprised by these adjectives because I would describe myself with all of these. I chose these people because there was a very wide variety in how well they know me. It’s funny how someone who I spend all my time with and who has been with me through the darkest times perceive me in the way someone who has met me twice. I have always been an open book and am proud of that. I am glad I did this activity and learned a lot from it.