perception and over coming it
In class we are reading Digital Ground and the author talks about perception and this idea that we all have maps in our heads and we use these maps as way of grasping different aspects of life and learning. Such as when were in High school we become accustomed to a way of learning and create a map for that kind of learning. When move on to college we are to make different maps based on the knowledge we have from other maps. For so many people it is a strenuous task to over come their already preconceived notions or ways of perceiving the world. This especially true when you embark on new passages of life such as college I found that it was hard for me to grasp the ideas of college and that I couldn’t transition to create a new map, because I had become so accustomed to the map that I had been using it was hard for me to give it up. My map was that I could do both school and family. When I got to college I found this to be extremely difficult, be cause I was not only having to go through the change of higher education but my family map changed as well with the development of my mother getting cancer for the first time. This lead tme to face the decision of wheter or not I should drop out and be there for my family or stay in school and be there for myself. My precption of life and school was so fixed that it took me a while to realize that I had to change my perception. I had to change my maps. I had to change the amount of time that I study, I had to get a job to help releve some of the finical pressure off of mefrom both school and family. I had to learn to say no once in a while to my family and know that it was ok. I also had to learn that I could no longer have the socail life that I was use to because bigger and more important things were happening in my life. I had to change my map and iof I had ntot did that I dont where or what I would be doing right now.