Unit Objective
- know one’s own value system
- understand the value form of different people
Original Post
This article is talking about the personal value which is written by Lewis. H. I strongly agree with some of the ideas in his article. “There is a good deal of evidence that human beings are not primarily driven by genetically determined instincts but are rather free to make their own choices.” (Lewis H P7) All the people have their own critical thinking and different people will make different decisions when they meet the same problem. That is the biggest difference between human and robot. Robot always follow the rules that human give to them. They will not do anything special or make any mistake. Somehow, some people love this kind of live. They want to live like a robot instead of a human. They do not have their own opinion when they face the problems. Just like a machine, keep doing the same thing as the other machines. They tell themselves the only important thing is not to make mistake. They believe when people start to make decision, their will be some mistakes in it. Because of this, the only way to avoid the mistakes is not to make decision. Just follow the words from the other people.
However, this kind of live is very boring. When I was young, my parents told me that bungee is not very exciting thing to do. It is very boring because there is no point for you to jump from a such high place and feel exciting. I always believe in it until my sister took me to a place to bungee. At first I was nervous about it but after I tried once I just love it. It is a such amazing thing, I love that feeling. When you jump from those high place, you do not need to think anything about your life, your study or anything else. There was nothing in my mind but a ward, exciting. That is the personal value, everyone have different opinion about different thing. That why human are human not robot.
Reflection
I have been asked about my values before, but I have never really considered thinking it out thoroughly. This human value assignment let me know what I am going to keep in the future and also realized what is important in my life. In China, many people like to ask you what personal value is or what kind of person you think you are. Just like I mention before, I do not really think about it. Each time when someone asks me that question, I always prepare an answer for them but that is not the answer after thinking who I am. However, after read this article, I took my time to sit down and think about this question. What is personal value? It seems like a very easy question, but I spent a lot of time on it. Then I figure out the goal of my values. I can use them to know myself, to control myself. I figure out that my family plays a very important role in my personal value.
You will never find new parents in your life and your parents will always care about your life. So I understand that for keeping a better family, I have to consider their feeling and what they think. It is a difficult thing to understand your own value system and what you believe. There are so many thing will affect you, friends, family, society etc. I think this artifact plays is very important thing to your life because you need to sit down and think about your life. You need to know yourself and really think about it. The answer is not given to others but you; you need to find it out.
Future
In my future, I believe that I will grow up and keep thinking about what is my personal values and what should I add to my personal value. I will find the goal of my life and figure out who I am.