Recent Musings:
Man, it's early to be this crabby.
Mean girl.
Monday, October 23, 2006
I realize that I've been mean. I realize that I have not taken a very "social work" mentality when dealing with my family. For this, I apologize and am sorry; I have seen the error and limitedness of my thinking and my actions.
I say this one, because I wrote a mean post the other day in the midst of my anger and two, because my family is not the only one with a problem - I am part of the problem as well.
We're studying the strengths perspective right now in social work. This is when one focuses on the positive aspects of a person, encouraging those strengths and using those strengths to build upon and help move a person to change. I realized I have never looked at the strengths of my family, which are probably many; instead I have focused only on the aspects that I struggle with and have only viewed the family from my negative mentality.
Mostly, I just want to say that I'm sorry in case I have hurt or offended anyone with my posts. I am learning and maturing and understanding much more of myself while here in grad school and can only hope to try to reconcile the pains I've caused and had to endure.
Calendar thought for today: "Change of opinion is often the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge."