Camille Grefaldia UPCED NSTP Com Module 2 nd Sem 16-17

2016-90854 February 13,2017

B.S. Community Nutrition Understanding Self and Others

Truly knowing yourself is a challenge to everybody. People die not fully knowing themselves.
Understanding ones self is a much more difficult thing to do, what more understanding other
people around you. However, in my opinion everything should start with knowing and
understanding yourself before you try and analyse others. Understanding others becomes an
easier job once you understand yourself because people are not that different from each other.
Most of us share the same values and interests in life. This weeks NSTP gave us an opportunity
to try and understand ourselves further than we already know about ourselves.

At the start of the lesson, they gave each of us a piece of paper which questions about the things
we like and dont about ourselves. It was a surprise that many of us cant come up with ideas to
share with others which implies that not many of us really fully know ourselves. This makes us
question ourselves what would it take to fully know ourselves, what sort of things we should do to
understand ourselves. I believe that it is very important to really know ourselves, our interest, our
aspirations and outlook in life or the way we perceive others and those people around us. This
way we are able to cope with problems that come our way so that we know what to do when we
are faced with difficulties in our lives. Moreover, by knowing ourselves we identify our purpose in
life. Imagine living without any purpose. It is sad to know that many people dont really know their
purposes, and their mental health is compromised, some go into depression or any other mental
disorder. This can have serious consequence in the quality of their lives and also affect the people
surround them.

Our instructors made us do an activity where we have to compile our answers from the survey to
characterize a typical UP student. Most of the answers that come up are critical thinkers,
responsible, moral and disciplined. To be honest, even I myself dont think I possess all those
qualities but we have come to the conclusion that a typical UP student should possess those
characteristics. I should start with myself by being more responsible to do work earlier and not
leave anything at the last minute. By being more disciplines and obey rules and regulations
wherever I go, by being a critical thinker, and should always analyse situations and think about it
carefully to identify the positive and negative consequences, whether its a situation or an action.