Reflective Essay on Life Course

Determining the importance of someone's life can be one of the biggest adventures and discoveries. Some of the big parts of it are figuring out the beginning stages of someone's life and how they were raised, seeking out those aha or big moments that shape people's interests. Finally, find people to surround yourself with. While some people may think otherwise, determining the course and path of someone's life can in fact be the thing that can save or break it. Figuring that out can determine how that person needs help, finding what they need and how to change that path if it needs saving. 

Many of the ways of determining the course of someone's life is to find out the beginning stages, which can correspond to how a person will act out, where they get their daily habits from, or how they handle a certain situation. One of the first ways this can be determined is how the child was taught by their parents or guardians. For example, parents or guardians are the role models of that child's life and how the parents react to something, will result in what the child will learn from and what that is the best response is to that situation. For instance, when there is a spider on the wall, most people's genuine reactions are to get scared and run away. What the child sees, is most likely the response that they will follow throughout their life because that's what their parents did. But overall, I think it depends on personality as well, which can also make an impact. Additionally, another way you can tell in the beginning stages of life is someone's environment and where they grew up. For example, some children that grew up in an abusive home have a higher rate of being that way because of what they grew up seeing/experiencing. Same as teen moms, it's almost like genes that are not genetic, it's the idea that it needs to happen or they are not educated. Although, there have been instances where people have broken that chain and become more successful than the previous generations. Another idea of determining the course of someone's life is self discovery and what someone likes. This can be determined through experiences with people or friends, or even on that person's own time. It happens all throughout life but is concentrated in the ages of 0-18 because that is what society considers the age spectrum of childhood. Overall, these are one of the most important moments of a person's life because it's a learning experience that helps them with the basic needs to be set as a human. 

There are plenty of big moments in life that humans will remember, but there are particular moments that will set dreams, goals, hobbies, etc… When someone has an Aha moment and it really sticks with them, it can create a spark that can tell that person what they want to do with their life. This can be seen mainly in school and the workplace. Through school people are generally expected to learn an abundance of material that gives them the option to find what that person is most interested in. For example, some people may gravitate more to math/science and go into the engineering field as a career. That person would have a moment in that subject or find a connection to it, that can regard them into that work area. Likewise, these big moments are one of the big things that can set someone's personality and how it can be developed. For example, when someone finds a love for dance that individual may take interest in the traditional traits that dance can hold. The music may spark an interest in the love for a variety of music, or the balance that needs to be held in dance, makes a way of learning how to balance time and it becomes a habit to that person. It's a long line of developing personality traits. With these big moments and seeing how it can affect humans, may be an inspiration to others and how they will live life. One of the many such things is behavior. For example, when someone may see someone being a leader. That person may want to follow and do the same things as that person because that person's peers are seeing the benefits of how that person is perceived. This can be in a multitude of ways, positive or negative, depending on how the situation is taken into account.

All in all, these are why big moments can help shape the way is shaped throughout their life and the tremendous impacts it can make.

In detail, one of the biggest ways someone can determine the course of their own life or someone else's life is the people they are surrounded with. Having a group of people around can really influence a person and what choices are made. In particular, if the group of people is doing a form of substance abuse. The percent of the person doing is quite high because it's the people that decide to be around. But if they have self control and decide not to make that choice that is also a possibility. Likewise, with the people someone surrounds themselves with can place learning curves and provide self lessons. For instance, friendships and relationships for people can be a long awaited thing to find the right people. There may be friendship fallouts which can teach that person what they want in a friend or relationships. If the person was jealous all the time and didn’t communicate, that would be something that the person would look for in the next friend. Also, being surrounded in different groups can teach that person the difference in life and what that person can want from that. For example, some people may find a difference in opinion which can help better shape that person's opinion and what they believe in, a good example is politics. Many people have a different viewpoint from others in that category. Altogether, that's why it's important to find a good group of people, to give guidance throughout life. 

In conclusion, determining the course of someone's life and where it can lead that individual is one of the most important things that humans can do. it can rediscover so many unfound things. While some may believe otherwise, determining the course and path of someone's life can be the thing that can save or break that person's life; determining that can lead to someone learning how to help that person, discovering what they require, and determining how to change that path if it needs to be changed. Figuring out their early phases, seeking for aha or significant moments that shape people's interests, and selecting individuals to surround themselves with are all important components of it. Now paying attention to someone's life or even your person can have a bigger effect than you think.