Collaboration

My 40-hour service learning

For my 40-hour service learning i helped my friends grandparents. His grandpa is a war veteran and is in a wheelchair because his legs were amputated. His grandma is confined to her chair because she morbidly obese. They both live in Mccoy Colorado, even the smallest chores are a challenge. My friend and i left to his grandparents for a one week as a part of my service learning part of my passage. While there we did the small to the bigger things. From getting the mail to getting rid of all the snow sourrounding the house. i know did know that they did really appreciate the help because we were so useful.


Choice theory

                        This essay is on choice theory, written by author of multiple books William glasser. Through out this whole book William say’s we choose the way we feel, think, and behave. For example in chapter 10 entitled school, Education, and quality schools. His theory states that we choose to learn, we choose to take notes so we will pass the exam. But we can not control everything around us, we can only control our own personal life. For some of us that is hard because things are so messed up we don’t know where to start. Glasser says to be able to use choice theory, we have to figure out where our problems are. Not one person in this world is the same. People can suffer from chronic depression, which doctors define as a brain disorder. That is not the case for William glasser. What glasser says is that depression is a mear feeling and we choose to feel that way. As soon as we realize that were making the choice to feel depressed. That Is the moment we gain personal freedom. People are not born as choice kids they have to be taught. The person who is has to be able to use choice theory not only on themselves but with everyone around them.

William glasser talks about a lot of thing in this book but one of the other main parts are called quality world and reality therapy. What glasser describes is that each person has both a quality world and a reality world. What a quality world is a place where everything there you choose for it to be there. Then a reality world is just basically day-to-day life, Where things happen that you have no control over. Some you may like other’s you may not. In my quality world everything there is meant to keep me fulfilled & joyful and brings me total happiness. To get a mental picture of my quality world, my quality world I picture me, my high school diploma, joining the marines, having a family consisting of a wife, 2 kids and a not to small not to big house. But the most important thing that I cling to life in my quality world s finding true happiness with my myself. I’d rather die happy and have no regrets then go in living miserably and never finding happiness. The things that will make my quality world a reality is graduate from high school with a good GPA and transcript. After the marines I plan to find a good well paying job to afford a house of my own.

 And last but not least I personally believe finding that person who is right for you, you have no control over it it’s all up to fate. When or where you meet her. After reading this book I realized it’s no ones fault but my own, from the way I think to the way I behave. The only person responsible or me is me. I choose the behaviors that screw me up in school and home. That there is my first step to personal freedom. Everyone in there time has gone by there own little motto, whether it’s party hard or don’t stop until you drop. My life motto that I use to get through life is live life to the fullest and if you die with regret, you did something wrong along life. This is just one’s opinion on the book. But this book is one I would recommend to anyone who has a taste for books.