AMong the filipino youth, the use of digital technology has now become part of our daily life.- the digital self. the aspect of digital self is expressed or shared with others through online interaction on the internet, especially in social networking sites.Some users provide very personal information about themselves for them to get scammed. they let other know what are their personal information so scammers are taking advantage of that. Nevertheless, the desire to create positive impression and to be liked by others may lead to consquence that can be risky to one’s security and mental health. For me, Social media has give us a chance and opportunity to build a very visible, permanent record of ourselves, through a digital medium. In that way, we inventing useful identity.That we will be forgotten by others and that our own memories will begin to fade, changing the person that we are. just because of digital. Many people try to create a new self through social media. With apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram people try to create a fake accounts of themselves. They do things they wouldn’t do in the real world, a new personality is formed to look like someone different. You then lose your trust of people on the internet. but for a person who’s lost, social media can be an escape to let everything go unidentified. This is both a plus side and a downside to build up of social media. There are people who are able to say whatever they want to the world without feeling too criticized. Some people use this fake accounts power to attack other people. For the people who use it as a form of expression, it allows them to have the security of showing their interests without the feeling that they will be persecuted.
Category: REFLECTIONS
Taking care of one’s self
Stress has ill-effects on health. people sometimes use unconscious stategies called defense mechanism. In order to deal with frustration,conflicts, and stress people sometimes use unconscious strategies called defense mechanisms to overcome the pain and deal with anxiety. beatnik reaction of defense mechanism in which the person exhibits behaviors that stand apart from the standard of society and avoid most resposibilities of good citizen. example of defense mechanism are denial, identification,intellectualization, projection, rationalization and etc. According to thomas holmes and richard rahe suggested that any life event that requires people to change ,adapt,or adjust would likely result in stress. Stress are manifestated in a model developed by psychologist hans selye who proposed the General Adaptation syndrome. He suggested that the body goes through three stages of adjustment, and the cause of stress. when people experince ugent demands when targeting a deadline such as submission of projects, and they are likely to experience pressure to do it immidiately this cause of our stress. Just to think about self care can be a task in itself. I never really thought it about it, to be honest, but it is an essential part of living. We get so busy and caught up living in our everyday lives that we forget about the most important part, ourselves. that our body needs to be taken care of.
SETTING GOALS FOR SUCCESS
Motivation direct a person’s behaivor towards a particular goal. It is not enough to just dream ir to set your goals. It is needed time and effort and plan to achieve what you’ve prayed for. And success is the outcome of hardwork and determination that must be shaped oneself over a long process. Accomplishing your dream can lead you to your satisfaction and higher motivation to really achieve it. Or frustration and lower motivation if the goal is not accomplished.it stated at the book that values are those which the person considers personally important and worthy. It could be the basis for what is desirable,correct and Good. For me, Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goals you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful,and you will have trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the hardest tasks in the years to come. When setting direction to success you must make good choices on the path you are going to choose. The wrong path will put you somewhere that is going to take you off track from your goals. So to be successful in life you should do your best to achieve it, it is okay to fail somethings, our life is not perfect.
LEARNING TO BE A BETTER STUDENT
According to neurologist, learning new knowledge and skills everyday will keep the structure of our brain changing theories. And psychologist said that learning as process that leads to exchange as a result of experience. Learning helps individual to adapt constantly changing environment. Our learninf is important to the survival of human being because it allows us to discover new knowledge, technology and intervention. For me to bea better student we should follow our professor for what he ask us to do. And inorder to become successful in life we all need to learn to become a good student in every aspects of our life. Becoming a good student takes so much work and effort also self -discipline. There are so many ways on how the student will stand out from the rest of the class. These student are recognize by their attitude, intellectual skills, consciousness and achievement. Being a better student is very important to us because we should care about whats going on and being aware and paying attention is a good manners to continually learn and apply.
POLITICAL SELF
Aristotle describe the role of politics in our life and the political community. he said that it must play in bringing about the moral life in the citezenry. It is very important part to develop in human the politics. Because it is part of our life and it needs to elevate our ideals about democracy, citizenship, human right, freedom, family, health and other social issues. Also Politics exist in all human socities. The political self explain that the ideas and aspiration of people embodies the rule of principles of our state, and determines the status of power of people. The institution that help influence the values of citizenship are the family because family, church,school,media government and non-governments. political self is very important for us because this is where we will know our position in our country.
SPIRITUAL SELF
the spiritual self is the inner self that has part of the self that connect us to the sacred one. The spiritual self let the persob experience a feeling of connection with the Sacred or the supernaturals also it gives deeper purpose to live. Spiritual self can influence one person through acts of faith, hope, and love. According to the book Spiritual self can develop when you interact with other people. And it can develop when you observe and imitate what they are doing. It stated in the book that family,school,and church can develop the spirituality of a child. Also Worship is an act to realize the ultimate meaning of trancendence and human life. It is the act of prayer, reading bibles, and attending sacraments like cell group. To be able to encounter God and understand God’s Word of salvation. First you need the act of faith, hope and love. The spirituality has connected with the religion. It says that religion can recognize the importance of spirituality of people. Spirituality can be expressed by religion and through participation in religious ritual. According to book spirituality and religion can satisfy many kind of social and mental needs like when you go to church and be religious. It can clear your mind and be at peace. Also praying can give you comfort, security and stability when you have lots problem in life. Also religion and spiritual can be a source of your contentment, and source of love and hope. As I can remember my parents have been raised me to believed that i should live my life, and to always belive that their is God and thank God for he sacrificed his life for us. But whenever I have decision to make I have to consider what is right and what is wrong. Having spirituality helps me too feel more secure and feel loved by God
“William James And Carl Roger’s Psychological Perspective of the Self”
According to William James, that the self has two divided categories which is the I-Self and the Me-Self. He said that the I-Self refers to our knowledge about our self. He believes that the I-self is the thinking self, meaning I-self is the self that knows his self well and the self that know what they’ve done on their own life. While Me-self refers to empirical self.it is describing the person’s personal Experience.William james divided into sub categories for us to understand the Material self, Social Self,and Spiritual Self. He said that the Material self refers to the body,clothes, House and etc. And William said that the Social self is refers to how an individual acts on social situation. According to William the spiritual self for him is Very Important because it refers to the self’s Emotion, Person’s Purpose in life,And core values.William James Believed that to understand our spiritual self , We need to Examine of one’s thought and feelings.
As for Carl Roger, He said that the other way to understand our self is to have Self concept.Self concept refers to the image of an individual. According to him the self concept is the most important aspect to understand our self. Also he tackles about the Real-Self and the Ideal-Self, The real-self is the one who we really are and what an individual can do. While the Ideal-Self is Our Dreams in life, or how we want to be.it is the idealized image that we developed over time or as we grow old.the ideal self could include of what our parents teach us, who will we admire, or what our society promotes.
13 Reasons Why (Season 1 Episode 7)

season 1 episode 7, in this tape Hannah share her experience with Zach Dimpsey. In a Valentines day Hannah get disrespected by marcus and here’s Zach Dimpsey. As what hannah said Zach is sweet because he is the only one who are ready to comfort her because of what her friend marcus did to hannah. Zach is Different than his friend bryce and justin. There’s a Genuine kindness to him that his friend wasn’t. Also Zach has secret feeling with Hannah so he confess his feeling to hannah but zach didn’t like her just because of the list called “best ass” but hannah get angry and lashed out while zach’s talking her, In her compliment class she notice that her letters was mysteriously being missed and she realize that zach was the one who took it, hannah wrote a letter for zach just to trap him and confirm if zach was really the one who was getting her letters. Hannah confirm that it was really zach who took her letters away. At the present day, clay jensen took revenge on zach,Clay vandalise zach’s car just to get justice for what he did to hannah. Zach learned what clay to his car and his mom learned what happened unto his car so they went to clay’s house just to reported clay to pay the damage on what he did to his car. After that clay didnt want to listen on the tapes anymore he give it back to tony. If I were zach, i will help hannah on whats her problem and understand her why she’s like that. Also i would gain her trust and be friend with her. Hannah have a hard time to trust anyone because of what happened to her at Rosie’s and what happened in her life. Like hannah did to zach, she pushed him away . because she was traumatised and she wants to secure her self that no one would hurt her feelings again .
13 Reasons Why (Season 1 Episode 6)

In Season 1 episode 6 , the tape is all about the “golden boy” Marcus. Because he is popular head of the school honor board, and overall seems like a decent dude. But that is what everyone know. They didnt know that marcus has a bully side.
As the story narrated by hannah, she mention that it was valentine’s and she was hoping to connect her with her ideal guy. But, in the case it connects with marcus and that is the start of the story marcus invite hannah to have lunch at a restaurant, and hannah gladly accept it, little did she know marcus was planning to “do things” to her, hannah was pushing marcus away and marcus was forcing himself at hannah, He thought that hannah was an “easy girl”
In present day, clay offer sheri to help her with her essay as the hour passed by, sheri and clay end up making out on his bed, but sheri knows that she didnt go their for that, she has motives and she knows that shes on the tape, and sheri dont want clay to listen to it, and hoped that even clay listens on her tape clay would like her still, shes afraid to know clay what she did to hannah, because she is the one who set up marcus and hannah. I understand now why hannah commit suicide, because her surroundings are so cruel to do that to her. As for marcus, he should respect hannah, because no one deserves that kind of treatment, and i did not expect that attitude on marcus because he is known as repectful because of her politician dad.
13 Reasons Why (Season 1 Episode 5)

So in this tape, it is about hannah’s experience in courtney. Or what courtney did to her. We all know in episode 4 that tyler down took a picture of courtney and hannah while making out. And that lead’s at courtney being Bully. She is the kind of people that will destroy others life just to be save in humiliation. She was so quick to drop hannah as a friend just because of what happened in them. Having not yet revealed as girls on the picture who was making out in the photo. Hannah decided to attend the party. And while they are dancing. Someone tease courtney about the photo. Courtney being humilated on the picture she make lie just to save her dignity. She tells him that it was hannah and sky who are in the picture and Courtney gives intimate details on what happen at the park with hannah and justin. When hannah learned what courtney said to her schoolmate. She confronted courtney regarding on what she said. All hannah wanted was to have a true friend but in the case courtney is not the one. And also starting that day justin and jessica are beginning to have feelings for each other. In the present day clay jensen invite courtney to talk in front of hannahs gravesite. She confronted Courtney about her betrayal on hannah. And he is confused because of courtney being afraid to come out the real her which is the lesbian side. Bryce friends learned what clay did to courtney and they decide to shut him up. They put clay to alex car and drove car as fast as alex can but the police run after them. But that cop is alex standall’s father. So they let them go without violation. As clay went home, he learned that her mother is the lawyer of their school. So her mother ask him if they were experiencing bullying at school. In this episode, I would say that courtney is a bitch for ruining hannahs reputation. And for making a story on what happed to hannah and justin. What she did to hannah is immoral. She is the one who has an idea to slept over at Hannah so why pointing fingers? It is so disappointing that Courtney is like that because i know that she is better than that as i watch the movie.