Download Reflecting on Personal Growth: Ideal Self, Struggles, Interests, and Relationships and more Essays (high school) English in PDF only on Docsity! How do I want to ideally describe myself? This question is here for you to start thinking about the person you want to be. We are constantly changing, whether you realise or not. We can’t freeze time nor change but we can control the kind of person we choose to evolve into and most of the time, we have an ideal version of ourselves we wish to be. There is no right or wrong answer, but once again think about the traits and values you want to have, the kind of person you wish to be. 3. What am I really struggling with at the moment? Ever solution starts with a problem and chances are there are things in your life right now that bothers you more than others. These are not small niggling things, but things in your life that’s causing you to be stuck or causing you overwhelm. A lot of times, these struggles keeps us feeling trapped and thus lost as a result. Think about the things that would make a lot of difference to your life if they were changed. 4. What am I really interested in? Interested enough to invest more time and effort into it? Many people might ask what you are passionate about and sometimes that overwhelms people because they think it needs to be something major. Most passions start with an interest in something. You do not need to fall in love with every interest that you have but you do need to think about what sort of interests would keep you coming back and investing more of your time and effort. These are the sort of things that could evolve into a passion and even a purpose. 5. What do I do outside of my work that invigorates me? Your answer to this could be a sport, a community engagement, religious activities or even walks in the parks but what is important here is that these activities are not just things you do to fill time. These are things that would provide even more meaning to your life by invigorating you outside of work. If your answer to this is nothing, then think about what you would like to do (you can refer to your answers for Question 4) and make plans to explore these interests this week. 6. What is the quality of my relationships with people? Many of us strive to discover who we are because deep down we yearn to find people we relate to, people who understand us and a community we can co-exist with, or in short, be with people who get us. Think about your current relationships, be it romantic, familial or social, how are these relationships? Do they fulfil you, make you happy or do they make you miserable and want to run away screaming?
