Romero, Rowell Q.

4ALM

March 5, 2012 BENE 3

HW 2 Tensions in Achieving your Goals

Reflection: The last activity which is entitled The Blind and the Armless made me realize so many things in my life. I realized that the line no man is an island is true. It means that no man can live successfully and happily without his family, friends or other people. I realized that the tensions can be handled in and only if there will be other people who will help you or guide you. The tension of being blind was removed because of the guidance gave by the armless man and on the other hand, the tension of being armless was removed because the blind person is the one who acts for the armless person. The activity made me think of the tensions that I have to face in reaching my goals.

Being a successful lawyer is my goal in life and I consider two tensions that can really affect my way on achieving my goal. These two tensions are tension on emotion and tension on friends. My higher batch friends always tell me that law school involves so much pressure and there will be times where in the law professors will tell you negative and harsh words during recitation. I can say that the emotional tension is a factor that will affect my goal because I am a person who does not want being scolded or being embarrassed. Today, I am practicing myself and I am trying to absorb all the negative things that other people told me because these imperfections will make me a better person. I just consider those negative things as the things that I need in order to be mentally strong. When it comes to tension on friends, I am talking about the people that I will be meeting in my life in law school. These people will make me or break me. I dont know if these people will be like my legal management friends who are always there and I consider them as the best. I can say that they can help me in achieving my goals if they will be like that.

The combination of these two tensions can be the factors that can make me successful lawyer. If these two tensions will be balanced, there will be a good chemistry that will result to reaching a goal. The tension on the emotions can be helped by the tension on friends in a way that my friends can help me and support me in times that I am undergoing an emotional stress because of the bad results in my law subject. On the other hand, the tension on friends can be helped by the tension on the emotions in a way that when the time comes that my friends are the one experiencing mental stress, I can help them and make them feel better because I already experienced that feeling and I already know how to make their feelings better. If I will be able to manage these tension, I can say that I will be able to achieve my goal.