Well... I started with the exercise being a
little angry, and this did not help. Honestly, I don’t feel like assisting all
individuals with what they need. I feel like I have enough to worry about than
to worry about someone else’s problem. I am not in the giving mood. I have
discovered that I am not good at these exercises and that I don’t have much
patience.
I feel that I have a weakness in the Worldly flourishing.
Dacher states that Social activism can be further divided into such specific
concerns as environmental issues, educational initiatives social justice and so
on. I am not involved nor worry about any of these topics. Like other members
of class I could also see my need to grow in Biological Flourishing but I am
lacking much more in worldly.
I could involve myself in extracurricular activities
that involve these topics but I would be more likely to work on my biological
flourishing (i.e. exercising)
James,
ReplyDeleteI understand how this all may seem a little weird at first but if you notice how they are all interconnected it may help. Ok, your example of biological flourishing (exercising and possibly nutrition)... You could involve yourself in worldly matters and probably do without even realizing it. If you are healthy and into nutrition, you may decide to eat free range chickens or chicken from the grocery store that says "no hormones or steroids added" as opposed to some of the chicken hot houses where the chickens are genetically altered to have a third breast in the sternum and grow at an alarmingly fast rate. The bones in the chickens are so underdeveloped that they cannot support their own body weight because people raise them to be "shoulder to shoulder" in these houses where the chicken is in terrible conditions. If you are into nutrition (biological) then you start to wonder how eating an animal on these steroids with genetic alterations will in turn affect your own body. These alterations are passed along the food chain when you eat them. These are ways to become worldly involved in issues that do directly affect you. It's just a different way of looking at the whole picture. Think about from start to finish or seed to grocery store where your food comes from, what it's subjected to, how it's polluted, packaged, handled, processed, and then ask yourself how nutritional it really is. Can you think of any worldly issues that you may never have thought of like that before now?