A topic that often comes up when we study human development is that when middle aged and older adults are asked about any regrets they might have, the most consistent finding is that they regret the things they DID NOT DO. Even if they failed miserably in a business venture, lost in love, never passed the bar, didn't win the gold medal, or didn't write a best seller, at least THEY TRIED. They didn't stand on the sidelines wishing and hoping their lives were better or richer somehow. They took risks and packed in all the living they could.
Today in one of my general psychology classes, we listened to an NPR segment from "This I Believe" in which the woman was talking about living her life so that she'd have no regrets. She said that at each moment we are all dying; its also true that at each moment we are all living. Which do you want to do more of? She chose to live, and although she had been diagnosed with cancer, she stated that she still planned to savor each moment of the rest of her life.
Is there something you'd really like to try but are afraid to? In other words, what would you do if fear were not a factor? What is something you can do to LIVE the rest of your life so that you'll have no regrets?
Shrink Rappers
Sigmund Freud
Founder of Psychoanalysis-"Anatomy is destiny."
John B. Watson
Behaviorist-"Give me a dozen healthy infants...."
B.F. Skinner
Founder of Operant Conditioning-"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
Abraham Maslow
Humanistic Psychologist-"What a man can be, he must be."
Jean Piaget
Cognitive Psychologist-"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution."
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I'm happy you started this and will visit often...I'm a muller so I may have to come back after I've figured out what you're talking about! ;-) Jayne, you are so special and I know you want to be a big ol' blessing!! Well, You Are!
Odale = aunt d, marlajayne!
Thanks for visiting this site. I'm not sure I'm having such a struggle getting the students to visit and post, but from what they tell me in class, it must be somewhat frustrating to actually leave a comment. Did you have a problem? Do you have any suggestions for others who might want to post?
Big question that goes with this particular post: Do you have any things you'd like to do with your life so that you won't have any regrets when you're older?
The second sentence should read, "I'm not sure why I'm...."
I read this same article in The State, it was amazing to me that so many children are put in this situation. With this drug being so relitively new I wonder what the long term side effects are going to be, are this kids going to be more likly to be drug addidcts themselves? My father did coccaine while I was a teenager and it made me not want to be around things like that as an adult, but this children are being physicaly damaged by this. I just wonder what they will be like in 15 years.
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