I read the article called “Personal Values”, and thought a lot because lots of ideas
in the book moved me a lot, and made me think about myself and my life in the
past.
The same as lots of children borned after the year of 1990 in China, I was over
protected, and became the center of the whole family. My grandparents and
parents treat me as “treasure” to protect me to avoid any unhappiness or
dangers happening on me which leads me to be very self-centered. I always
only care about my own emotion, and always use my own
emotion to judge others. Like the sentence in the article, “The choice of emotion
as a primary mode of forming value judgments and thus a dominant personal
value judgment in itself- means that we are predisposed to certain specific
values, as other sections of this book will show”(P14), I use my own personal
preference to ask others to follow it.
For example, I do not like the collocation of red and green, especially wearing
red and green together. When I see someone wearing red adn green, I always
think he/she lacks of the sense of fashion, even more, I think he/she is tacky.
It is a kind of using own emotion to be the value judgments. After reading the
article, and thinking about my own behaviors and thoughts, I begin to rethink.
The reflection makes me know a lot that each person has its own style such as
clothes style, thinking style, living style, and others cannot use their own
habbits to judge others’ preference and behaviors are correct or wrong. It is
something like that if you are happy, and another person is sad, you cannot
force him to become happy because of your emotion.