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| week 8 assignment |
1.Are you more of a consumer or a citizen? Expain your answer
Asking you about what roles you want to act, consumer or citizen, is like to ask you what factors are more important to you, power or freedom. Those are the two similar questions. Everyday in person's life, we are trying to act both of the two roles: we want more money to spend for goods, servces, and all of the physical staffs, in order to act more like a "consumer" ,On the other hand, we are expecting to enjoy or lifes, playing with family, friends, fully exercise our personal rights. However, these two factors seems have is full of contradictions with each other.Being a consumer more means we focus more on the physical stuffs, like money, power, authority, and the same time, throw away our social liabiliy, friendship, affection, pleasure. This phenomenon is quite common in the social society all around the world: I have seen some people fallen down into this dilemma: Though they will aware that money cannot bring the real happiness, they can not stop their steps pursuing money, because they cannot jump out from their current role-consumer.
For me, I think at least I am more a citizen than a consumer. I will not let the wealth and the money to obtain all my life, because I know I'll loss freedom from it. Anyway, No one can just play a role as a pure citizen or a pure consumer, but, It will be good to be more of a citizen than consumer,not only for our quality of life, but also for the community.
2.What obstacles do you have to overcome to have your desired impact?
In order to acheive my desired impact, I should overcome several obstacles in the long-run period.Those obstacle maybe like:
Hesitate: I consider it as the biggest enemy blocking my way. Modern world gives us more choice, at the same time gives us more inconsistence. sometimes I get lost, cannot locate myselves. If this situation continues, I will lose our direction one day in the future.
Lack of passion: I consider this factor as the second serious problem. Because mysteps will be heavily decelerated by lossing our passion. If this situation continues, finally I will stop my steps and stand of hesitation, and lead to the first problem.
Lack of confidence and rely on others: this problem will weaken my desired impact, make them shrink even if I can get it finally. To avoid it, Ishould keep on indicating myselfs:
This is your personal business, no one can help you indeed; Since it is my willing to do it, I could make it ,absolutely! In fact, our desired impart, is nether too hard to obtain nor too far to consider. Sometimes I cannot get it or even we get it ,we cannot feel "impact" at all.Those all because I have already lost it in our spirit, I betraid ourselves.
However, if I can conquer those difficuly, achiving my desired impact will not be so far away.
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Posted by rick_dias on 2009-11-02 05:04:58 | Rating: | Views: 11
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