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This is my journey, Boulder-style. Here are all the random details of everyday life, the weird things I notice about people, places, and habits that most others would probably prefer not to think about in the least bit. Enjoy reading it, because I have too much fun writing it.

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Discovering Self Discovery
Contributed by: Kelsey Page   on 9/19/2007

One of my class assignments is to design a personal growth project. I found this interesting, not necessarily just because it's an unusual project to assign in an academic world of midterms and lecture halls, but because I haven't heard of more classes encouraging their students to complete similar acts of contemplation. I've heard all about college's splendors in self-discovery, but is this ever finished, couldn't we push the college and life experience to further reaches of inner-exploration to the point that each student upon graduating understands that this journey never has, does, or will center around a final goal, but rather around the continuation of progression?

Originally, I was personally thinking about designing my project to entail me driving to some desolate location in Wyoming to sit with myself completely alone for twenty-four hours without any technology, literature, homework, or company of any sort. Yet, on second thought, I realized that this was difficult enough for me to do for ten minutes, let alone a whole day, and the problem arose in that I doubted I could actually use this time effectively as self-reflection as opposed to playing reruns of Grey's Anatomy in my head that would inevitably bring me to the brink of insanity after I'd conclude McDreamy's hypothetical destructive role in the face of the feminist movement (I don't know where that came from).

Instead, I opted for a more effective, Kelsey-proof method of journaling; every day I'm taking about half an hour to pull different parts of my life together, analyze how they've affected, affect, and will continue to affect me and what roles they play in my persona and character. I highly encourage everyone at any age to consider implementing some sort of self-discovery or improvement project, it's something so idealized that I feel we all either lose steam after the first week or gradually forget about maintaining and setting these goals because they're so vague, ambiguous, and difficult to define simply because we have yet to define them within ourselves.

I wonder how our or if world would be different if everyone took similar steps in their personal lives to do something profoundly life-transforming or defining. For isn't self-knowledge inspiring to others? Wouldn't it bring some sort of inner peace that could, as though by some incredible osmosis-related phenomena, infect those around us until we all feel grounded within our own moralities and thoughts to the point of changing and influencing our actions even before we make them?


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Submitted By: Charmaine Robledo
posted on 9/19/2007 @ 4:46:33 PM
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I kept a journal/diary when I was really young and I love looking back on them to read all the silly things I thought about. I stopped journaling in middle school and high school, but tried to start it up again in college. I did keep a dream journal by my bed off and on in high school. Those were interesting glimpses of my subconscious self.
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Submitted By: Brendan Leonard
posted on 9/19/2007 @ 11:21:11 AM
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Some of my friends are journalers, and have notebooks upon notebooks of self-discovery and records of where they were and what they were doing, going back years. I really regret not doing it earlier in my life. I think this project is a great idea, Kelsey.
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