Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Q2 5-Hour Personal Challenge Proposal

So, I want to do something different for my personal challenge this quarter. It can't exactly be measured in hours and it might not even be a valid idea, but I'm going to propose it in any case. I'm really horrible to my brother. As a person. For some reason, every single thing he says or does makes me angry, even natural things that don't bother me when they come from my friends. Inexplicably, I have an innate zero-tolerance policies when it comes to him. I know most siblings don't get along too well, but I guess I feel instinctually like I'm unusually and unnecessarily hard on him. Generally, I feel pretty good about myself as a person, but after I get upset with him or while I'm feeling frustrated by him I have this horrendous sense of myself in me as well as the feeling of anger. Basically, even though I feel as though I can't help but be horribly mean to him, I have no respect for myself because of it. SO: for this quarter I want to try really really hard to be nice to my brother. I try sometimes, but it's like trying to stop biting my nails... it never actually happens. Sometimes if I buy donuts afterwards. But not really. So maybe for homework it will work. If it works out, I feel like as a social science project it will end up helping both me and him and hopefully show me a better coping strategy / relationship sense to work with.

1 comment:

  1. This works. It would consist of maybe some smaller posts of times/reflections on when you try to be nice to him. The "hours" might also come from a situation where you plan an activity to do together so you might find some common ground. He won't know its homework, but the "homework" aspect of it will make you try a little more actively to address the weaknesses in the relationship.

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