Week 9

The living obituary was an interesting assignment to complete. I found it kind of difficult to truely understand what a person is all about in a 10 minute meeting. And, how could someone really get a feel for me in a simple 10 minute conversation. If you think about the first time that you meet someone you usually talk about general topics, age, family, current situation, what do you like to do, are you an alocoholic, blah blah blah more general personality questions. You don't usually find out the deep aspects of a person's life until you really get to know them and spend some time with them. I mean most of us put on a fake persona anyway to the general public and don't show people our true emotions until we know for sure if they are going to accept our faults. So, how could I write a paper about a persons entire life up to this point in just meeting them for 10 minutes?!?!! Wow, what a challenge. Basically I had to trust that everything that they person told me... was actually true and the way that she really lives her life day to day. Truthly I doubt that any of us honestly act like we would like to think we do every moment of every day! NOT!! Well, I have to say this made me think about what my acquaintences would say about me.... Megan is a stuck up person who doesn't show much emotion... she is quiet and doesn't say much... quick to judge others.... opinionated, bitch sign right across her forehead. Ok... not how I would like to be remembered or who I am really!!

This week was normal... Feinberg lectured... and by that I mean he played clips then talked about how the clips were related to leadership. Although I enjoy the clips... I feel that my time could be spent more productively than to watch clips!!!! So frustrating!
Feinberg also asked us if we were living our lives the way that we wanted to be remembered... now this is an interesting question. No one wants to think about their own funeral, but he asked us to image what the people there would be saying about us. Would they say the same qualities that you think that you portray???? Would they remember the same stories that you remember??? Hmmm.... now this is interesting. This is about taking ownership of our actions and really BEING the person that we WANT to be. We all think that we are living our lives to the fullest and people just know what we are about... but do they really!!?!?